Music
Dumpstaphunk: Dirty Word (Louisiana Red Hot)
Dumpstaphunk has a few simple missions on its second full-length CD: To make a modern album steeped in the funk tradition; to show the strengths of its new lineup (with […]
Luther Kent: Luther (Independent)
Blues and soul man Luther Kent hasn’t made a CD in four years, the news on this one is that it includes some of the last sessions by the great […]
“Bad Beth” Patterson:
Folk and Rock, Devil and Angel
It’s the night before the opening of Jazz Fest, and the tourists are wandering into Beth Patterson’s set at Margaritaville. No doubt they’ve noticed an attractive, silver-voiced woman playing a […]
Shannon McNally’s
Bobby Charles Tribute Album
Sees Release
For years the Shannon McNally / Dr. John / Bobby Charles collaboration has been more a rumor than a record. Reports first broke in 2007 that Mac (Dr. John) Rebennack […]
Davell Crawford: My Gift To You (Basin Street)
Buy on Amazon Davell Crawford often gets called the “Piano Prince of New Orleans,” but that usually isn’t meant in the Purple Rain sense. But it’s hard to think of […]
Bonerama: Shake It Baby (Independent)
Don’t look now, but Bonerama has turned into a full-fledged rock band. True that classic rock was always in them, and there’s a Zeppelin or Sabbath cover on all four […]
New Orleans Suspects: Caught Live at the Maple Leaf (Independent)
Sometimes it helps to cut right to the chase: The New Orleans Suspects are above all a live band, so they didn’t wait long (less than a year after their […]
John Fohl: Teeth & Bones (Independent)
John Fohl’s latest CD, his first as a leader in more than a decade, represents a satisfied man’s blues. After an extended stay in Dr. John’s Lower 911—where he was […]
Jazz Fest 2013 Focus:
Martha Redbone
Strong-voiced women doing retro-soul are currently a hot property in the pop world. Strong-voiced women doing Appalachian folk settings of works by the English visionary poet William Blake, not so […]
Jazz Fest 2013 Focus: Phoenix
If you’re intrigued to see a European electronic art-pop band in the Jazz Fest lineup, so is the band itself. “People are really surprised when I tell them we’re playing […]
