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Come On & Get It, Honey: Judith Owen’s lusty love letter to New Orleans
Come On & Get It, Honey: Judith Owen’s love letter to New Orleans. When Judith Owen and her sister were kids in the London suburbs, they danced around and sang along to the jumping swing-blues of Julia Lee & Her Boyfriends’ “The Spinach Song,” a 1949 single in their dad’s jazz collection.
Little Freddie King: Best Of The Beat Lifetime Achievement In Music
Best Of The Beat: Lifetime Achievement In Music – Little Freddie King, Little Freddie King’s Remarkable Lifetime Achievements Have Only Just Begun.
Finding Her Home: Dayna Kurtz has harvested the fruit of years cultivating her place in New Orleans music
Dayna Kurtz is sitting in a rocker on her porch, mostly in the dark, clipping something with a pair of scissors. “I’m cleaning garlic,” she says. “It’s been hung and […]
Up From The Swamp: Swamp pop hero Tommy McLain returns to the studio
Tommy McLain is having a moment—a bright moment in the classic swamp pop singer’s long life of golden ups and disastrous downs. North Carolina’s Yep Roc Records has just released […]
Jazz Master Donald Harrison Passes Down Afro-New Orleans Musical Culture
Big Chief Donald Harrison, who in 2022 was recognized as a Jazz Master by the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts, put the links connecting New Orleans musical styles into […]
Feeling the Darkness: Shawn Williams is country-based with a New Orleans flair
Let’s get the obvious question out of the way: Is Shawn Williams really the person in her songs, the one with the messy emotional life? Absolutely, she replies. But not […]
Exciting, Expansive and Accessible: Matt Booth, Oscar Rossignoli and Brad Webb are Extended
New Orleans is a welcoming city. It embraces musicians who arrive and takes pleasure in inviting them into the scene just as it does with so many visitors. The members […]
All you need is roux: A personal Jazz Fest retrospective
Jazz Fest popped my cherry in 1988, when I hit the mud running and instantly went native, gatoring in the Blues Tent (still on the infield then), joining in tribal […]
Chapel Hart: A Unique and Genuine Country Trio
There’s nothing like them in Nashville or New Orleans. Sisters Danica and Devynn Hart and their first cousin, Trea Swindle, are Chapel Hart, a trio of young African American women […]
My Music with Detroit Brooks
Detroit Brooks grew up in a musical family with a foundation in gospel music—he and his siblings all sang in church. In the secular music world, of which he is […]