Issue Articles — Jazz Fest Focus
Fest Focus: Willie Nelson
While most folks pine away at their humdrum jobs, saving for the day when they can escape, Nelson’s famed tour bus, the Honeysuckle Rose is busy weaving its way through […]
Fest Focus: Ironing Board Sam
Though an active and unique blues artist for nearly four decades, Ironing Board Sam Moore has a rather short resume. He’s recorded only a handul of singles, one LP and […]
Fest Focus: Jon Cleary
Jon Cleary has clearly arrived, and now he has a new recording to follow suit. Moonburn, his long-awaited major label debut for Virgin/Pointblank Records, is set for release April 20 […]
Fest Focus: Widespread Panic
Last March, Widespread Panic was .. ih the tail end of a two-week run at Paris’ Chesterfield Cafe. As the band walked on stage for the final show, keyboardist Jojo […]
Fest Focus: Carol Fran & Clarence Hollimon
The current “sweethearts of the blues,” Carol Fran and Clarence Hollimon are making their first “official” appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. One of their biggest fans, […]
Fest Focus: Charles Brown
The blues of Charles Brown is urbane and stylish and sad, and jazzy in its intelligence. It seduces and enchants. It is a saxophone. In a nightclub. Two hours before […]
Fest Focus: Governor Jimmie Davis
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine … “ The song’s been covered by Lawrence Welk and Cowboy Mouth, Mitch Miller and Mitch Ryder, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Willie […]
Fest Focus: The Band
When recent Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Band arrive for two Jazz Fest performances, drummer and lead vocalist Levon Helm will be commemorating an early, New Orleans-induced […]
Fest Focus: Wasserman/Weir
Busted down on Bourbon St. Set up like a bowling pin Knocked down, it gets to wearing thin They just won’t let you be The Grateful Dead, “Truckin’” When […]
Fest Focus: Jon Cleary
Certain psychological camps claim that personality is a product of environment, but English piano maestro Jon Cleary is a damn strong argument that individual soul emerges from genetics. While growing […]
