Nine Lives is an attempt by Paul Sanchez and screenwriter Colman DeKay to adapt Dan Baum’s account of the lives of nine New Orleanians for a musical. Knowing that doesn’t prepare you for what a musical it is, though. You expect music by an established musician to have some signature, but that’s not the case [...]
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Nine Lives Musical at Le Petit Theatre
February 21, 2011 – 9:53 am
In our current issue, Alex Rawls tells the story behind Nine Lives, Paul Sanchez and Colman DeKay’s musical adaptation of Dan Baum’s book. Plans are afoot to take it to New York this summer to try to shop the project to the city’s theater community, but on Wednesday, May 4, the first full live presentation [...]
Nine Lives: A Chorus Second Line
February 1, 2011 – 12:10 am
“I’m going to Bing it up,” Harry Shearer says. He’s in a vocal booth at Piety Street Recording as his voice drops into a fruity, Crosby-esque baritone: Here comes old Cedric. He’s had a fabulous year. A hush fills the room as his young wife draws near. He pimps her out freely to advance his [...]
Go For It!
December 15, 2010 – 7:11 pm
Spent a good part of this afternoon at Piety Street Recording Studio in the Bywater, meeting great people whilst observing the recording of Paul Sanchez and screenwriter Colman deKay’s upcoming Nine Lives production. If you recall from reading OffBeat, Threadhead Records and Sanchez received a Pepsi grant in the amount of $50,000 to help finance [...]
Musicians, Actresses Urge Continuing Support for Gulf
November 2, 2010 – 4:17 pm
On Sunday, Aaron Viles of the Gulf Restoration Network hosted a press conference backstage at the Voodoo Experience 2010 in City Park. Among the attendees were numerous musicians that have been active in dealing with community issues – Craig Klein, Paul Sanchez, Big Sam Williams and John Michael Rouchell – who had just returned from [...]
Threadhead Scores
November 1, 2010 – 12:02 am
Many books have been written about New Orleans, particularly since Katrina. I just read Dan Baum’s brilliant Nine Lives, and it’s one of the best books I’ve read recently about the city. It follows the lives of nine New Orleanians from the time of Hurricane Betsy to Hurricane Katrina, bookmarks, if you will, of destruction [...]
Various Artists, Dear New Orleans (Air Traffic Control Records)
October 1, 2010 – 12:55 am
A working streetcar, a Saints Super Bowl victory and five years later, it might be easy for the events of August 29, 2005 to become a more distant memory for some. But if Dear New Orleans, the new digital benefit compilation dedicated to the Big Easy from Air Traffic Control, is any proof, no one [...]
Paul Sanchez on Shamarr Allen
August 1, 2010 – 12:52 am
I met Shamarr at an in-store in Louisiana Music Factory Jazz Fest 2006. I was still with the Mouth and he was still with Rebirth. They were playing after the Mouth set, and during our set I sang Randy Newman’s “Louisiana, 1927,” and Shamarr got up and joined me on that song. I said into [...]
Shamarr Allen and Paul Sanchez, Bridging the Gap (Threadhead Records)
August 1, 2010 – 12:44 am
Shamarr Allen is a born front man, the kind of artist who embraces a showy star turn. Throughout his career performing and recording with brass bands, jazz ensembles, and his recent funk-rock projects, listening to Allen perform has meant hearing his sensibilities and his powerful trumpet drive a band’s rhythms and shape its sound. On [...]
YouTube du Jour: Irma Thomas
May 19, 2010 – 9:15 am
In 2008, Mojo Magazine honored Irma Thomas. Thomas plays Wednesday in the Square tonight at 5 p.m. with Paul Sanchez, Margie Perez and Glen David Andrews opening, and here is her acceptance speech for Mojo.
