Music
Luke Winslow-King, I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always (Bloodshot)
Luke WinslowKing’s fifth album is clearly a divorce/breakup album, and has everything you’d expect from an album of that nature. Song calling his ex out by name? Check (“Esther Please”). […]
Aaron Neville, Apache (Tell It Records)
During his rain-drenched set at this year’s Jazz Fest, Aaron Neville quietly introduced a new song, “Stompin’ Ground”—a standout that found the singer back in “Hercules” territory, waxing streetwise about […]
Luke Winslow-King: No More Crying Today
For songwriter Luke Winslow-King, 2014-2015 was the kind of year that nobody would ever want to live through. Never much of an outlaw type, he spent a few weeks in […]
Cowboy Mouth, The Name of the Band Is… (Independent)
With their 25th anniversary in progress, Cowboy Mouth really deserve a definitive, career-spanning anthology—but since their catalogue is spread across a half-dozen different labels, we’re not likely to see that […]
Ten Louis Armstrong Landmarks
The Internet is full of Louis Armstrong top-ten lists, but we’ve noted that most of them seem to lean on the pop material and put “What a Wonderful World” at […]
The Relatives, Goodbye World (Luv N’ Haight)
The Relatives were a surprise sensation at Ponderosa Stomp in 2010, and in some ways they were that festival’s dream band: a regional Dallas family group, formed in 1970 and […]
Alexis & the Samurai, Move Into View (Independent)
Gorgeous melancholy is one of those qualities that makes indie pop go round, and Alexis & the Samurai’s latest is practically awash in it. The gorgeous part is what you […]
Lena Prima & the Lena Prima Band, Live at the Dew Drop Jazz & Social Hall (Aftergroove)
Louis Prima’s shadow is a tough one to escape, but Lena Prima—daughter of Louis Prima and his last wife and singer, Gia Maione—seemed to be managing it on her last […]
Royal Southern Brotherhood, The Royal Gospel (Ruf)
No getting around it: I’m writing this review in the wake of the latest (at press time) horrific mass shooting, and the Brotherhood’s topical “I’ve Seen Enough to Know”—which opens […]
Tangled Up: Darcy Malone & the Tangle
Born of New Orleans music royalty, Darcy Malone mixes up her music and blurs genres with her band, The Tangle. You know the T-shirt that says “I may be […]
