The weekly woodshed sessions with Anders Osborne, John Fohl and Johnny Sansone have evolved into something more than just an occasion to work out new material. This year, they even took it to a Jazz Fest stage. They’re at Chickie Wah Wah tonight; here they are a a Threadhead event playing “Summertime in New Orleans.”
Tag Archives: Threadheads
Threadhead Foundation Start Accepting Grant Applications Tuesday
May 31, 2010 – 6:45 am
The Threadhead Record Foundation is once again accepting grant applications. The foundation is the 501(c)3 non-profit arm of Threadhead Records, and it is once again offering $3,000 grants to musicians whose work “promote(s) the cultural heritage of New Orleans.” According to a recent press release: The Foundation seeks to assist those musicians whose work is [...]
March 2010 Letters
March 1, 2010 – 12:01 am
MAKING A DIFFERENCE My wife and I would like to thank y’all for an absolutely amazing time at the Best of the Beat Awards. Took us a few years to make it and man what a year to finally do so. We both are quite proud to count ourselves as members of the Threadheads and [...]
Perspective Counts
December 19, 2009 – 9:47 am
There’s an interesting conversation on the Jazz Fest forums talking about this year’s festival as an experiment: a year without BNAs – Big Name Acts. Anybody besides me suspect that the festival doesn’t see it that way?
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 [...]
December 2009 Letters
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
NOLA BIBLE My wife and I live in Baltimore and have been coming to Jazz Fest since ’93. Absolutely love it and we make it most years. Fell in love with NOLA music and food as a result but we limited ourselves to our once-a-year trip. Well, in November, 2007 a NOLA friend gave me [...]
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 [...]
How to Make a Problem Go Away, Pt. 2,548
April 15, 2009 – 8:06 am
[UPDATE BELOW] Belyin pointed me to this exchange regarding Dr. John’s pro-wetland/anti-Shell email and video. It’s fascinating but sad to watch the catalogue of responses to the awkward problem Threadheads face as an artist they love calls out the sponsor of the festival they love. What to do? Some question the tactics, some question [...]
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 [...]
