The Baseball Project is about to release its second album, Vol. 2: High and Inside. The band – Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon from Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3, Peter Buck from R.E.M. and Scott McCaughey from R.E.M., the Minus 5 and Young Fresh Fellows – has come together once again to celebrate the [...]
Tag Archives: New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund
YouTube du Jour: Billy Iuso and the Restless Natives
April 1, 2010 – 9:06 am
Tonight, Republic hosts a benefit for the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund with Russell Batiste and Friends, headliners Billy Iuso and the Restless Natives, and more. Here’s Iuso covering Wet Willie’s “Keep on Smiling”.
Various Artists, Fire in My Bones: Raw, Rare and Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007 (Tompkins Square)
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
“A portion of benefits from this compilation will benefit the New Orleans Musicians Relief Fund,” it says right in the liner notes. So buy a copy. Know, however, that this set, well- nigh four hours of testimony over three discs, will comfort, ennoble, and enable you through any future floods, earthquakes, fire ant infestations, and [...]
