Music
The White Bitch, The White Bitch’s Prey Drive (Independent)
Writer Michael Patrick Welch’s musical project—the White Bitch—has proven to be an admirably unpredictable project, one that can be acoustic or electric, funky or bombastic, solo or a group, theatrical […]
We’re Baa-aack … Sort Of
Recently, Sweet Home New Orleans (SHNO) completed a study of profiling the state of New Orleans music scene—including Mardi Gras Indians and Social Aid and Pleasure club members—and found good […]
Moving on up
The catering truck is packing up in the parking lot, and the cafeteria tables once covered in props have been stowed away. Today’s the last day of shooting for the […]
Calexico, Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
Calexico albums are territories you come to know, landscapes that are blurrily of a piece at first, but whose landmarks become individual and beautiful with scrutiny. That’s certainly true of […]
Emmylou Harris, All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch)
Emmylou Harris has become more interesting as her voice has become less perfect. Idiosyncrasy suits her, and she now moves from full, angelic “oooh”s to airy, sighed phrases with imperceptible […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dennis Wilson, Pacific Ocean Blue (Sony/Legacy)
Boy, Metacritic.com’s scorecard suggests there is some seriously overheated love in the critical world for the reissue of Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue. I don’t remember the album being […]
Astral Project, Blue Streak (Astral Project)
Like much of New Orleans, Astral Project has the blues. Blue Streak is its first studio album since Katrina, and the compositions are their reactions to the storm and life […]
Liese’s Living Room, Hope So…(Independent)
The strength of Hope So… is its vibe, an amiable New Orleans rock groove that is influenced by R&B, soul, island music without ever working too hard. Everything sounds effortless, […]
