Issue Articles
Fest Focus: Jon Cleary
“They kept adding on and adding on.” Jon Cleary has been on the road playing with Bonnie Raitt, and due to popular demand, the tour stretched into a two year […]
Don’t Look Back: 65 Tour Deluxe Edition (Docurama DVD)
By now, the last thing the world needs is more writing about Bob Dylan, but sometimes you just can’t help yourself. It’s all so interesting, and the recent deluxe […]
Dale Watson, From the Cradle to the Grave (Hyena)
At last fall’s Americana Music Association conference in Nashville, everybody wanted to be Dale Watson. Many of the bands performing had fallen in love with honky-tonk music and were […]
The Band in the Hall
Before Hurricane Katrina, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band had recorded a new album. They had it set, ready to go, then the floodwaters came. After that, Ben Jaffe decided, “Releasing […]
A Sacred Place
Last year, Sacred Steel band the Campbell Brothers played a show at the Old Point Bar that was one of the highlights of the Jazz Fest fortnight, with the band […]
Telefon Tel Aviv, Remixes Compiled (Hefty)
Many dance floor-oriented electronic pieces of music have made it easy to stereotype electronica as emotionless, but Telefon Tel Aviv recordings demonstrate the wrongness of that assumption. The closest […]
U-Ka, Live at Snug Harbor (Independent)
Is warm enough? Just how far will a soulful earnestness get you? U-Ka’s Live at Snug Harbor boasts an excellent band that includes Charles Neville on saxophones, James Singleton […]
Slade, In for a Penny: Raves and Faves (Shout! Factory)
Slade made little impact on America, perhaps because they were too British, or maybe because they were too much a part of the glam moment in the 1970s, working […]
The Soul of John Black, The Good Girl Blues (Cadabra)
The first album from the Soul of John Black (essentially, John Bigham, ex- of Fishbone) was a cool second generation neo-soul album, one that was more into songs than […]
JJ Grey & Mofro, Country Ghetto (Alligator Records)
Recent Alligator Records’ release State of Grace by the Holmes Brothers shares an emphasis on groove and voice with Country Ghetto, the newest release from Mofro. Both albums are […]
