DAKAR, SENEGAL—I pass my first two weeks in this cosmopolitan desert city looking for Baaba Maal. The world music giant, singer behind nine records sold internationally, UN youth ambassador and Senegalese icon has some houses here, out there in the milieu. Senegalese of wealth often give him such things: houses. Senegalese without give what they [...]
Tag Archives: Muddy Waters
Got Art?
April 7, 2010 – 10:26 am
Last year, we published readers’ photos of Jazz Fest from the 1970s in the Jazz Fest Bible. We’re not repeating that in the pages of the issue, but we love classic photos and would like to run a slideshow of your vintage shots from the festival like this one featuring Muddy Waters and Professor Longhair [...]
Papa Mali
February 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Guitarist Malcolm “Papa Mali” Welbourne made his reputation in Texas with the Austin-based Killer Bees; in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he grew up; and in New Orleans, where he went every summer to visit his grandparents. The dreadlocked axeman has hovered on the margins of New Orleans’ music scene for years, playing with the Radiators on [...]
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Alligator Purse (Yep Roc)
February 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
BeauSoleil has long been a band that can be taken for granted. To win Grammys, to become representative of a genre, and to become keepers of a cultural flame can be a blessing and a curse. Because, at the end of the day, it’s all about how the music moves you Truth be told, I’ve [...]
Pinetop Perkins
March 1, 2000 – 12:01 am
If the term “living legend” weren’t a stock cliche used by every celebrity ass-kisser around, we might use it to describe boogie-woogie piano giant “Pinetop” Perkins. It’s just as well, though, because even that won’t fit him. Pinetop is more of a living repository of blues tradition. If you haven’t been clued, let us tell [...]
New Orleans Rock: On the Scene
September 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
Before reading any further, stop to picture in your mind what you think of when you hear the words “New Orleans music.” I’ll wait. Now, what did you see? If you are like most of us, you probably envisioned an old Creole slouched in a chair with a clarinet in his mouth. Or perhaps a [...]
The Bluerunners, Muddy Water’s, August 16, 1991
September 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
Well, look, here ’tis. If you, like me, love the Bluerunners‘ debut disc on Island, let me tell you, it is tepid, that’s right I said tepid, in comparison to what they’ll do to you live. Picture this: Muddy Water’s at just past midnight, it’s gotta be a 130 degrees with a heat index of [...]
Club Scouting 1990
May 1, 1990 – 12:01 am
My Dearest Stella: I was filled with an overwhelming joy upon learning that you will be visiting the City of Sin for the Jazz Fest celebration. Knowing that you are a bohemian sort and a lover of good food and music, I’m sure you will want to spend as much time as possible wandering amongst [...]
