Issue Articles
Tab Benoit with Louisiana’s LeRoux, Power of the Ponchartrain (Telarc)
How eerie is it that I would be listening to a CD entitled Power of the Ponchartain for the first time and reading about LSU great Marquise Hill drowning in […]
Various Artists, Blue-Eyed Garage: Sixties Rock ‘n’ Soul Rarities (Green Iguana)
This one should certainly appeal to the Ponderosa Stomp set as most listeners would be hard pressed to identify even one of the bands on this 23-song anthology. Certainly this […]
Dale Hawkins, Back Down To Louisiana (Plumtone)
There’s a little bit of everything in this one including a whole lot of Dale Hawkins. Not a straight out retro-sounding rockabilly disc, there’s some more contemporary rock here, some […]
Fest Focus: Don Rich
Despite being one of Louisiana’s most consistently popular and successful styles of indigenous styles of music, swamp pop has often been underrepresented at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. […]
Back to Basics
This month Basin Street Records released Kermit Ruffins’ Live at Vaughan’s, its first full-length CD in two years, and its first in New Orleans’ post-Katrina environment. While label owner Mark […]
The Holmes Brothers, State of Grace (Alligator)
Willie Nelson referred to the Holmes Brother’s previous release, Simple Truths, as “simply one of the best albums released this year” in 2005. After listening to this new one, a […]
Johnnie Taylor, Live at the Summit Club (Stax)
While the late Johnnie Taylor is unjustly left out when the great soul singers are discussed, consider that Taylor sold more records for the Stax and Malaco labels than any […]
Koko Taylor, Old School (Alligator)
There’s never been anything subtle about Koko Taylor’s music and her latest is no exception. Taylor again returns to the type of gritty Chicago blues she first recorded in 1963. […]
