Tag Archives: Russ Broussard

The Film, the Dirt & Other Things: The Cowsills Story on Showtime

Late last year, the Cowsill family revisited their old New England stomping ground for an advance screening of their documentary Family Band: The Cowsills Story, which is showing through this month on Showtime.  When the movie ended that night in Gloucester MA, the siblings’ first question to the audience was, “Is everybody OK?” It was [...]

Susan Cowsill Joins Another Family Band

Susan Cowsill is well-known as a member of the Cowsills, but she is now also a Hobart. Last year during South by Southwest, Cowsill, Jon Dee Graham and Freedy Johnston got together and started writing songs drawing on the earlier days of their careers, then recorded a CD under the name the Hobart Brothers featuring [...]

YouTube du Jour: Spencer Bohren

Tonight, blues guitarist Spencer Bohren plays his annual Christmas show at Snug Harbor at 8 and 10 p.m. He’ll be joined by guests Susan Cowsill, Russ Broussard, the Iguanas’ Rod Hodges and Joe Cabral, Jimmy Robinson, Tom McDermott, Darcy Malone, Chris Boye, Jerry Giddons, Andre Bohren and Corinna Bohren. Here he is performing a solo [...]

Not a Typical Record Label

Music seems to be played around the clock and all year long in New Orleans, imbuing this city with a constant beat that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. Even so, the Big Easy can be a hard place to be a musician. With that in mind, a group of die-hard New Orleans [...]

Decisions, Decisions

She doesn’t have to do this. As a member of the Cowsills, Susan Cowsill performed on Playboy After Dark, countless talk shows, the Dean Martin Variety Hour, and the family band had hits with “The Rain, the Park and Other Things” in 1967, “Indian Lake” in 1968 and “Hair” in 1969. But tonight it’s Mardi [...]