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 [...]
Tag Archives: Threadhead Records
YouTube du Jour: Wilson and Moore
August 2, 2010 – 10:43 am
Guitarist Chip Wilson and R&B Jesse Moore recently debuted their video for the hopeful “You’ll Get Through It” from their Threadhead Records’ album, Side by Side.
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 [...]
Bohren Starts New Series at Chickie Wah Wah
June 7, 2010 – 9:19 am
Every Monday in June, acoustic bluesman Spencer Bohren will play “Blue Mondays” at Chickie Wah Wah. Bohren was recognized in January when he received the Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive award for Education, and the multi-instrumentalist will play classics as well as new material. Bohren is also a new Threadhead Records project. “My last [...]
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.
Paul Sanchez, Farewell to Storyville (Threadhead)
December 1, 2009 – 12:02 am
The Threadhead Records phenomenon has reshaped the profile of the local recording industry, allowing veteran musicians to make albums that might otherwise not have happened, giving deserving new artists a jump start on their careers and even producing such delightful one shots as this year’s Christmas release. No musician has benefited from this breakthrough more [...]
Error or Pet Peeve?
May 21, 2009 – 1:24 pm
In the Threadheads post, Chris Joseph writes that Threadhead will help Fatien Ensemble put out an album. At Jazz Fest, Fatien Ensemble was Ensemble Fatien. The question here is which is right? Did Joseph get it wrong or is Seguenon Kone not all that fussy about his band’s name? Both are equally possible in [...]
Threadhead News
May 21, 2009 – 12:43 pm
Here’s an email update of Threadhead Records’ activities from the label’s Chris Joseph: To all: Threadhead Records (THR) has a few items we are very happy to announce: 1) As you may have heard, John Boutte has completed paying THR back for his “Good Neighbor” CD, and he also wrote a check to the [...]
