Music
Jerry Lee Lewis, Rock & Roll Time (Vanguard)
Jerry Lee Lewis already made an album called Last Man Standing 10 years ago. But now with Fats Domino and Little Richard both retired, one Everly Brother gone and Chuck […]
Dale Watson, The Truckin’ Sessions: Part 3 (Red River)
Dale Watson apparently hates everything about modern country music, so it’s no wonder his vision of heaven—as described on one of this disc’s catchier tunes—is “a laid-back, beer shack, smoky […]
Cardinal Sons, The Echo Choir (New Song)
Make no mistake—Cardinal Sons’ five-track EP isn’t a modest, indie release for a local audience. It’s a sparkling, well-produced modern pop record in search of national attention. More power to […]
10 Songs for Thanksgiving
Just in time for Thanksgiving, this month’s playlist features 10 lesser-known culinary gems. No surprise that it’s slanted toward Cajun and zydeco, since you find a lot of the best […]
Andre Williams, A Fortune of Hits (Night Train)
To his eternal credit, R&B maestro Andre Williams always had a very strange idea of what constitutes a hit record. Aside from the dance-craze tune “Bacon Fat”—which never tells you […]
Elvin Bishop, Can’t Even Do Wrong Right (Alligator Records)
Elvin Bishop was never the deepest of bluesmen—he’s a good-timey entertainer and proud of it. And if you boogied to his Struttin My Stuff album back in high school, you’ll […]
Better Than Ezra, Surprise (Liason)
Originally a cassette-only release in 1989, Better Than Ezra’s long-unavailable debut was essentially the work of a different band, with the core trio of singer/guitarist Kevin Griffin, bassist Tom Drummond […]
New Orleans Suspects are the Oldest New Band
For those not hip to Greek mythology, the Ouroboros is a serpent that swallows its own tail, an emblem of infinity and the circularity of life. This struck the New […]
Ghostly Gems: 10 Songs for Halloween
Most of the songs you hear every Halloween, from “Monster Mash” to the Cramps’ catalogue, don’t come from New Orleans. Here’s our attempt the remedy that, with 10 ghostly gems […]
The Psycho Sisters, Up On The Chair, Beatrice (RockBeat)
Score one for lasting friendships. Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson began singing together in the early ’90s, when both were based in Los Angeles; they planned to make a Psycho […]
