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Reading’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Buckwheat Zydeco’s Lay Your Burden Down has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Cajun/Zydeco Album category, which adds credence to my belief that Grammy voters are going on […]
Grammy Has a Crazy Stick
After a few years when the Grammys seemed at least partially tethered to planet Earth, they returned to form this year, seeming more like a crotchety old man waving his […]
No Mayor Mayfield
Yesterday the Associated Press reported that trumpeter Irvin Mayfield has decided not to run for mayor of New Orleans. When we first reported that he was going to run, we […]
Almost Perfect
Last night, the Superdome was the loudest I can remember for a prolonged period of time (nothing will ever seem as loud as the Dome was when Steve Gleason blocked […]
What’s in the Bag, Santa?
Christmas music is so purpose-driven that it’s easy to dismiss it, but many artists are inspired by the holiday. At their worst, they find a way to inhabit and freshen […]
What Will Santa Say?
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 […]
Spencer Wins!
Congratulations to Spencer Bohren. He recently won the International Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Education. The award will be presented in Memphis in January during the International […]
Black Monday
Countdown to kickoff – 10 hours, 45 minutes at the time of writing. Saints fans marked tonight’s game against the Patriots on their schedules at the beginning of the season, […]
Derrick Tabb – Hero?
[Note: Update in Comments] Did anybody see all of CNN’s Heroes program last night? Was a winner chosen? I see today online that Derrick Tabb is in the Top 10 […]
A Thanksgiving Memory
As we all hunker down for serious eating, drinking and football, here’s a quick Thanksgiving story with a lesson. On Thanksgiving night 1997, the Afghan Whigs played a remarkable show […]
