Music
“The Sleeping Giant” James Winfield, Lonely Lonely Nights (Southland)
James Winfield has spent his life around New Orleans R&B. He’s hung out the Dew Drop Inn. He worked alongside Lee Dorsey at Dorsey’s body shop. He had one single […]
Michelle Shocked, ToHeavenURide (Mighty Sound)
Michelle Shocked always brings something different to her performances and recordings. She’s done everything from campfire folk to New Orleans funk and done it with conviction. ToHeavenURide is her gospel […]
A Whole Lotta Lovin’
On May 19, Fats Domino played Tipitina’s. He didn’t play for a long time and he may have been a reluctant performer, but he played. Quint Davis couldn’t make that […]
Theryl “Houseman” DeClouet, The Truth Iz Out (Independent)
The new CD from Theryl “Houseman” DeClouet encompasses old school and new school soul with songs that show off his stinging rasp in the title track, his romantic croon in […]
The Houseman’s Truth
“Where do I start?” laughs Theryl “Houseman” DeClouet ruefully over the phone from Chicago, “I lost everything I had accumulated in many years of living in New Orleans—and then I […]
101 Runners, Rosy’s Jazz Hall, March 4, 2007
Seeing the 101 Runners, a combination of the funk band Gradoux, big chiefs Monk Boudreaux, David Montana, Roddy Lewis, and percussionists Geechie Johnson and Uganda Roberts might be what it […]
A Heavy Load
LOUISIANA MUSIC FACTORY—The small stage of the Louisiana Music Factory is packed to the edge with musicians. Matt Perrine leads an aggregation of musicians from almost every walk of New […]
Fest Focus: Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove
Kirk Joseph’s career has taken him far and wide starting from the funeral parades on the streets to the funky rock of Anders Osborne, from stages worldwide with the Dirty […]
Joe Krown Trio, Old Friends (Joe Krown)
There are more than several moments on his new release where pianist Joe Krown’s trio takes a song both uptown and downtown. On his version of “Tipitina,” he and the […]
Matt Perrine, Sunflower City (Independent)
Until sousaphonist and bassist Matt Perrine’s new record, nobody, and I mean nobody, needed to record the old warhorse “Muskrat Ramble” again. Been there done that a million times. But, […]
