Issue Articles — BackTalk
Lawrence Cotton talks back
Pianist Lawrence Cotton rightfully calls his band, which will be performing at the Satchmo SummerFest on Saturday, August 5, the Legendary Experience. Cotton, who will celebrate his 90th birthday on […]
Leyla McCalla talks back
Leyla McCalla, a singing, songwriting cellist and former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, once aspired to being a classical musician laboring in the rarified world of chamber music. She […]
Chris Robinson
It’s been over 50 years since bands like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company burst out of the San Francisco scene, taking the lead […]
Harold Brown
It’s been a long time since the very funky Lowrider Band, which takes the stage at the Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo at 7:45 pm on Saturday, May 22, performed in New […]
Buffy Sainte-Marie
THURSDAY, APRIL 28—SHERATON NEW ORLEANS FAIS DO-DO STAGE, 4:25 P.M. The inimitable Buffy Sainte-Marie released her debut album in 1964; the title, It’s My Way! was an early clue […]
Sonny, Sonny, Sonny
OffBeat’s April cover artist, local painter Dona Simons, has painted Sonny Landreth more than 30 times. Her Lakeview house is full of him: Sonny standing on a bed of […]
Sonny Landreth
Every spring, Sonny Landreth, master of the slide guitar and co-composer of the classic “Congo Square,” plays his annual marathon of South Louisiana festival and club gigs. Landreth’s evocative hybrid […]
Regina Carter
More than a decade ago, jazz violinist Regina Carter became the first non-classical musician to play Niccolo Paganini’s highly guarded, handcrafted Guarneri violin, an instrument that dates back to 1743 […]
David Bowie – 1971
Readers may be shocked by some of the comments Bowie expresses here, but Bowie later disavowed many of these kinds of comments blaming them on mental instability caused by his […]
Bobby Rush
Now it can be told: Veteran blues great Bobby Rush never actually ate chicken heads. Still, it makes sense that his 1971 song about that particular delicacy has become his […]
