A Jazz Fest nighttime staple is the once-in-a-lifetime (or at least once a fest) aggregation of musicians who rarely play together. The crew tonight at the 12 Bar on Fulton Street is one of the more unusual such groups, involving members of Down, Dash Rip Rock, Cowboy Mouth, Supagroup, Morning 40 Federation and Egg Yolk [...]
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For the Love of Okra
May 19, 2010 – 6:24 pm
If you’ve missed the cries of “I have oranges and bananas! I have mangoes! I have nice peaches!” you’re not the only one. Mr. Okra, produce-vendor-turned-icon, has been stuck without his truck. A benefit to raise money for a new truck or repairs to his old one hopes to bring the smiling vendor and his [...]
Voodoo 2009: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning with R. Scully
November 1, 2009 – 12:10 am
Ryan Scully’s got the cure for what ails you. But he’s also part of the disease that afflicts your “sin-sick soul.” On Halloween night, he closes out Voodoo’s Bingo! Parlour with a one-night only reunion of the Morning 40 Federation, the sin-sickest bunch of miscreants ever to emerge from the Lower Ninth Ward. Come Sunday [...]
Clint Maedgen
October 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Clint Maedgen is a busy man. The impresario behind the Brechtian New Orleans musical theater group The New Orleans Bingo! Show is also the front man for his own groups, a frequent collaborator with Morning 40 Federation, and newest full-time member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He has become one of the central figures [...]
Morning 40 meets Andre Williams
July 2, 2008 – 1:27 pm
Cristina Black – who once wrote for OffBeat – has a piece in the new Village Voice about Morning 40 Federation’s Ryan Scully and the work that went in to producing Andre Williams’ new album, Can You Deal With It? (Bloodshot): It took three years to make Can You Deal, officially credited to Andre Williams and [...]
First Stevie, Then Scully
July 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
Fabled R&B singer Andre Williams recorded with Stevie Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner and Mary Wells. Ryan Scully joins that list with the Black Godfather’s latest album, Can You Deal with It? on Bloodshot Records, due out at the end of the month. Scully and his bands, Morning 40 Federation and the New Orleans Hellhounds, [...]
