The artists that cut or are cutting albums for Threadhead Records came together to record A Very Threadhead Holiday, a charming, often irreverent Christmas album. The album succeeds in being seasonal (if not always holly and jolly), and it represents the musical personalities of those involved. Craig Klein’s “Christmas on My Mind” is a good-natured [...]
Tag Archives: Matt Perrine
YouTube du Jour: Threadheads’ “Mr. Grinch”
December 14, 2009 – 10:54 am
On Friday night, Paul Sanchez, Debbie Davis, Margie Perez, Glen David Andrews and the cast of A Very Threadhead Holiday played a CD-release party at Chickie Wah-Wah. Here’s Susan Cowsill singing “Mr. Grinch” with Matt Perrine and Craig Klein on horns.
Various Artists, A Family Christmas (Putumayo)
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Putumayo’s most recent Christmas collection this year is supposedly fun for the whole family. Evidently, the whole family loves acoustic, stringed instruments—guitars, mandolins, ukuleles, and the like. As such, This is often a low-wattage, chilled-out Christmas. There’s some great stuff on it including Martin Sexton’s “Holly Jolly Christmas” and Sam Bush’s “Sleigh Ride, but the [...]
Tim Laughlin, A Royal St. Serenade (Gentilly)
August 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
A common criticism of reviewers is that they’re too caught up in the pursuit of the new, cool thing to get beauty anymore. The thing that’s hard to tell the artist that made the beautiful piece he or she made is it’s often beautiful like a soap opera star is beautiful—in a conventional, familiar, unspectacular [...]
It Takes Two
April 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
New Orleans Duets, Tom McDermott’s new album, was over five years in the making. The album is a collection of duets with people you might expect—Evan Christopher, Matt Perrine, Tim Laughlin—some that make sense—Helen Gillet, Michael Skinkus, Anders Osborne—and some you didn’t see coming, Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton included. “I wanted to do [...]
The Vision Thing
May 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
“Doublewide” brings to mind images of those annoying “Oversize Load” trucks carrying what appears to be half of a pre-fab house down the freeway during afternoon rush hour. But to saxophonist John Ellis, doublewide has an entirely different meaning. Ellis grew up in a North Carolina town full of doublewide trailers, and he uses the [...]
Paul Sanchez, Exit to Mystery Street (Independent)
May 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
New Orleans native Paul Sanchez wanted to write and perform his own songs, so he went to New York City, where he became part of the “anti-folk” acoustic music scene in lower Manhattan during the 1980s. It was a short period of his career, but it defined what he wanted to do as a musician. [...]
A Heavy Load
June 1, 2007 – 12:01 am
LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY—The small stage of the Louisiana Music Factory is packed to the edge with musicians. Matt Perrine leads an aggregation of musicians from almost every walk of New Orleans’ musical life to promote the release of his first record, Sunflower City. He hoists his sousaphone on to his shoulder with surprising grace considering [...]
