Notes from da Boogaloo…. Went to Bayou Boogaloo on Saturday, and I really loved it. The setting is really nice, on the grass right next to Bayou St. John. I even saw people wading in the bayou, which was apropos because it was so freakin’ hot. As the afternoon wore on, though, clouds obscured the [...]
Tag Archives: Susan Cowsill
YouTube du Jour: Susan Cowsill
May 6, 2010 – 11:39 am
Tonight, Susan Cowsill will play the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s “Ogden After Hours,” which will include an interview with OffBeat editor Alex Rawls. Here’s an early version of “Dragon Flys,” the opening track from her new Lighthouse album.
Susan Cowsill, Lighthouse (Threadhead Records)
May 1, 2010 – 12:48 am
Hurricane Katrina forced us all to reconsider the concept of home. On Lighthouse, Susan Cowsill’s longing for home ties the songs together, and the emotions tied to “home” are more complicated. On “ONOLA,” she gives up on the city. The possibility that this might not be home anymore is one that most who live here [...]
Questions, Madness and Hopes
April 1, 2010 – 9:51 am
Here on Frenchmen Street, it’s tough to avoid the production of HBO’s Treme. Two days ago, I ran into John Goodman, who was waiting for someone, and there’s a dinner table set for shooting later today right outside my window. As such, the show’s on my mind, and seeing Goodman reminded me of one of [...]
Saying Goodbye
March 21, 2010 – 10:39 am
Writer Eric Weisbard wrote on Thursday, “I read my Facebook and Alex Chilton is Michael Jackson. I leave Facebook and he doesn’t exist.” Fortunately, SXSWville (located in Austin) has been the physical equivalent of Weisbard’s Facebook page, and for artists, writers and fans of a certain age, Chilton’s passing has been Topic A. While most [...]
Various Artists, A Very Threadhead Holiday (Threadhead)
December 16, 2009 – 11:26 am
The artists that cut or are cutting albums for Threadhead Records came together to record A Very Threadhead Holiday, a charming, often irreverent Christmas album. The album succeeds in being seasonal (if not always holly and jolly), and it represents the musical personalities of those involved. Craig Klein’s “Christmas on My Mind” is a good-natured [...]
YouTube du Jour: Threadheads’ “Mr. Grinch”
December 14, 2009 – 10:54 am
On Friday night, Paul Sanchez, Debbie Davis, Margie Perez, Glen David Andrews and the cast of A Very Threadhead Holiday played a CD-release party at Chickie Wah-Wah. Here’s Susan Cowsill singing “Mr. Grinch” with Matt Perrine and Craig Klein on horns.
What Will Santa Say?
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The adults are sitting around a table on the back porch, some with beer, some with coffee. They’re swapping wisecracks and stories while the kids are upstairs. Coats are tossed in a corner, and the Christmas lights are strung with semi-deliberation in one of the rooms of the house. It could be Christmas, but it [...]
Not a Typical Record Label
December 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
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 [...]
August 2008 Letters
August 1, 2008 – 12:01 am
FAN FOR LIFE I think Alex Rawls missed the point of Sonny Landreth´s excellent new CD, From the Reach. After releasing a live album with his trio, Sonny wanted to go in a different direction and wrote songs specifically for the people he collaborated with, folks he had wanted to work with for a long [...]
