Oil spill-related songs are starting to appear. Threadhead-related artists recently released “Nobody Knows Nothin’,” and here’s Shamarr Allen, Dee-1, Benny Pete and more on “Sorry Ain’t Enough No More,” shot at Grand Isle.
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Honey Island Swamp Band, Good to You (Threadhead Records)
May 1, 2010 – 12:55 am
Maybe it’s because they formed in San Francisco; or maybe it’s because they seem more like a family than a band; or maybe it’s because of Chris Mulé’s lyrical guitar leads and Aaron Wilkinson’s raspy Bob Weir-like yowl, but the Honey Island Swamp Band’s gritty, bustling grooves recall mid- Seventies-era Grateful Dead—except these Big Easy [...]
Matt Perrine & Sunflower City, Bayou Road Suite (Threadhead)
May 1, 2010 – 12:54 am
New Orleans locals are familiar with sousaphonist Matt Perrine playing any style in any situation. His virtuosity brings forth the inevitable “I’ve never heard a tuba played like that” comment; then you take it for granted until you hear another tuba player. Less noticeable, but apparent to his bandmates, are Perrine’s arranging and composing chops. [...]
Margie Perez, Singing for My Supper (Threadhead)
May 1, 2010 – 12:50 am
Margie Perez first released Singing for My Supper last year, but she has re-released it recently with three new songs. A big part of the fun of Perez is that she’s so sweet in person and in her delivery, but her lyrics are far randier than that persona would lead you to expect. “When I [...]
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 [...]
Ingrid Lucia, Midnight Rendezvous (Threadhead Records)
May 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
Ingrid Lucia stylizes something that is already stylized—the trad jazz canary. That has distinguished her from others working the same field, but the level of abstraction she reaches sometimes makes her work slightly remote, like a crystal rose. On Midnight Rendezvous, she’s more affecting than ever because the material she penned with guitarist John Fohl [...]
New Orleans Nightcrawlers, Slither Slice (Threadhead)
July 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Very rarely does an album come along that redefines the sound and spirit of an entire genre. On their first release in almost a decade, the New Orleans Nightcrawlers have created a sound more imaginative, adventurous and contagious than any of its esteemed forebears. On all fronts, musically, compositionally and production-wise, the band’s fourth album, [...]
Alex McMurray, How to Be A Cannonball (Threadhead)
July 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Alex McMurray’s long awaited new album, How to Be a Cannonball, could be the record that gives him the recognition as being one of the best songwriters working today. Every week there is some new hype about some two-bit indie rocker kid from Laurel Canyon, Hyde Park, or Alphabet City whose songs are “compelling,” “cinematic,” [...]
John Boutte and Paul Sanchez, Stew Called New Orleans (Threadhead)
May 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Friendship has its privileges, and in the case of singer John Boutte and Paul Sanchez, that means getting together and knocking out a record in a single session. What you hear on this well-played, extremely well-sung yet laid back session of singer-songwritery, blues jazz is not ambition so much as confidence in each other’s abilities [...]
