Steel Drummer Irving McLean Wants to “Party Party Party”

Damn Right, Buddy Is A Handy Guy; John Lee Hooker Records, and More

Basehead, Tipitina’s, October 12, 1992

U2, Legion Field, Birmingham, AL, October 7, 1992

The B-52’s, UNO Lakefront Arena, October 6, 1992

Letters November 1992

Leadbelly: His Life, His Legend

“Sweet Singer of the Swamplands Here To Do a Few Tunes Between Homicides” -New York Tribune, January 5, 1935, heralding the arrival of Leadbelly.   In 1935 Huddie Ledbetter finished […]

Mess O’ Blues

The Delmark, Rounder and Black Top labels insure that fall will offer up a bountiful harvest of blues albums.   Is there any coincidence in the fact that we have […]

A Different Shade of Blues

We call it “the blues”. It looks like the blues, and sometimes even sounds like the blues. But can the confluence of styles in New Orleans, the good time capital […]

Louisiana Folklife Festival

At the Louisiana Folklife Festival in Eunice November 13-15, zydeco and blues share center-stage with hand-stitched quilts, Italian stuffed artichokes and stories about Earl Long. The combination of crowd-pleasing dance […]