Though it’s nominally a blues festival, T-Bois offers a wide range of Louisiana music including swamp rock (Honey Island Swamp Band), alternative rock (Gravy Flavored Kisses), singer-songwriters (Mia Borders, Kristin Diable), plus blues-based artists Anders Osborne, Colin Lake, Johnny Sansone, Alvin Youngblood Hart and more. There will also be camping available and libations from NOLA [...]
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Ellis Marsalis Center for Music at Musicians Village Launches Spring 2013 Series
March 20, 2013 – 9:23 pm
Juke-joint blues comes to the refined halls of the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music (EMCM) next Tuesday, March 26 as local favorite Little Freddie King plays a show at 6:30pm. Each month the center will feature new performances on Tuesdays through the spring season. [Check out our June 2008 cover story with Little Freddie King] [...]
LOCAL BANDS GO HOG WILD FOR BRAIN CANCER AT BBQ FEST
March 20, 2013 – 5:17 pm
As if we needed a “cause” to eat BBQ and rock out to live, local music, but hey… If pig meat is what you crave, the annual cook-off “Hogs for the Cause” at City Pork—sorry, we mean Park—should be your destination this weekend. The main show begins Saturday at 11am, with a “tailgate experience” set [...]
Soul vet Percy Sledge joins guitar slinger Tab Benoit for the Rock‘n’Bowl’s “Soul @ The Bowl”
March 14, 2013 – 1:49 am
UPDATE: The Rock n Bowl has announced that unfortunately, to many fans’ dismay, Percy Sledge has canceled his guest set with Tab Benoit originally scheduled for Saturday, March 23. However, the 24 years young blues guitar prodigy and Louisiana native, Jonathan “Boogie” Long has been booked to replace Sledge for the March 23 edition of [...]
Eric Lindell, I Still Love You (Sparco Records)
October 1, 2012 – 12:55 am
Eric Lindell has never been someone to stay in one place for very long. The R&B singer/guitarist has seen his share of high times and hardships in his comings and goings. But like the familiar breeze he often rides off on, in his own time, he winds his way back, sketching songs until he’s settled. [...]
Dave Ferrato, Later, On Decatur (Independent)
October 1, 2012 – 12:53 am
Dave Ferrato is a Quarter Rat with an eye for storytelling detail and an ear for the classic currents of New Orleans R&B. This is an extremely polished and professional effort for a first album. The expert ministrations of Mark Mullins as producer and arranger ensure that technical quality, and Mullins assembled an outstanding cast [...]
Chris Thomas King, Bona Fide (21st Century Blues)
October 1, 2012 – 12:45 am
Bona Fide offers a glimpse of Chris Thomas King in full stride propelled by mid-career confidence, a genuinely inventive and compelling inheritor of the blues traditions whose surprisingly intimate performances succeed not through gospel shouting or bold declaration, but instead through strategic charm and guile. It’s useful to remember that King descends through his father [...]
BackTalk: Venerated Bluesman Elvin Bishop Stays Sharp (Interview)
October 1, 2012 – 12:21 am
In 1960 Elvin Bishop left his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma and moved to Chicago, where he learned to play the blues from legendary masters like Hound Dog Taylor, Junior Wells, Fred McDowell and Big Joe Williams. He also played with Clifton Chenier and studied the slide guitar technique of Earl Hooker. Bishop first came to [...]
A Tale of New Orleans: Spencer Bohren’s Storied Blues
October 1, 2012 – 12:16 am
Verse 1: Kitchen Music Spencer Bohren and his wife Marilyn are spending a rare day at home in their cozy brick cottage on Esplanade Ridge. It’s a steamy August afternoon and the world seems to move in languid rotation as a huge black and gold monarch butterfly floats and glides amid the drying laundry hung [...]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 3): Luke Winslow-King Rises Up
September 12, 2012 – 10:18 am
Welcome back for the third episode of OffBeat’s Look-Ka Py Py Podcast. In this cast host Zachary Young sits down with folk singer Luke Winslow-King to discuss his excellent, current album The Coming Tide. Over the course of the last few years, the Cadillac, Michigan native Winslow-King has become a favorite on Frenchmen Street and [...]
