Music
Kerry Grombacher, It Sings in the Hi-Line (Independent)
There’s something naturally curious about a city guy singing western music in Ian Tyson’s mold. Kerry Grombacher sings about the wide open spaces and rural towns, where there aren’t as […]
The Voice of Urgency
Security backed us up. “A band’s going to be coming through here.” As if people wouldn’t think to get out of the way when a brass band was approaching, but […]
Goin’ Back to Gretna
The Gretna Heritage Festival takes place the first weekend of October starting at 4 p.m. Friday, October 3 and at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The festival is always […]
More Seafood, More Festival
Now New Orleans has two seafood festivals, one in June and one that starts Friday, October 3 on Fulton Street and runs throughout the weekend. The New Orleans Seafood Festival […]
Sugarland, Love on the Inside (Mercury)
Nashville is the last place where anybody over 18 is trying to make music for the masses, and Sugarland fits right in. Jennifer Nettles has a twang she turns up […]
The Final Solution, Brotherman Original Soundtrack (Numero Group)
The Numero Group’s latest piece of soul archaeology is this soundtrack for a blaxploitation movie that ran out of money before shooting started. Guitarist Carl Wolfolk was commissioned to record […]
Bobby Charles, Homemade Songs (Rice ‘n’ Gravy)
Music has always come fairly easily to Bobby Charles; it’s the business part that has been hard. He’s had a gift for a melody and lyrics written in the common […]
Ruby Rendrag, Wartime Favorites (Independent)
Ruby Rendrag has played guitar with Rikki Comeaux, and she was the classic rock half of Dingo 8 (paired with Mary Lasseigne’s alt-rock half), and she was part of the […]
Theresa Andersson, Hummingbird, Go! (Basin Street)
Theresa Andersson’s career in New Orleans has been fascinating as she has tried on numerous traditional American genres—blues, funk, pop, folk—and her gift has been that she could do them […]
Stereolab, Chemical Chords (4AD)
This is Stereolab’s take on Motown, but that doesn’t mean you can dance to it. Like most Stereolab, Chemical Chords is all about the drone, with chord changes that create […]
