Late one foggy night many years ago, a night steeped in the lore of New Orleans R&B, a ’49 Studebaker barreled down a lonely road between Donaldsonville and New Orleans, hauling the Flamingoes home from a gig. Anyone who saw the big car drifting from one side of the road to the other would have [...]
Tag Archives: Quint Davis
John Campbell: One Believer
November 1, 1991 – 12:01 am
Shadows dance in liquid pools of light spilled by candles, dozens of them, burning steadily into this midsummer night. Ancient skulls stare down at us with hollow-eyed serenity. And though we’re hundreds of miles from Bayou St. John and the nearest body of water is the East River bordering Manhattan, the air is as thickly [...]
Jazz Festing
February 1, 1989 – 12:01 am
In the spring of 1970, something great happened in New Orleans: musical history was made. Four stages, a gospel tent and a few food and crafts booths were set up in Congo Square, the area adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium on Rampart Street in what is now Louis Armstrong Park. Mahalia Jackson sang “Just a [...]
