Music
Ronnie Earl, Heart and Soul (Shout! Factory)
Culled from the ashes of New Orleans’ Black Top Records, these recordings dating back to the early 1980s, took place during Ronnie Earl’s last few months with Roomful Of Blues […]
Various Artists, The Best of Swamp Pop Classics (Mardis Gras)
Culled from the vaults of Church Point, Louisiana’s, Lanor label, in the words of swamp pop sax great Henry Simineax, this one’s, “half fais do do, half Domino.” Most of […]
Various Artists, Swamp Gold “”Country”” Volume 1 (Jin)
I had a very small part in putting this collection together, so I’m going to be slightly biased here. Nevertheless, this CD is a cracker. Heartbreak, steel guitars, fiddles, cheating […]
Vin Bruce, Cajun Legend (Mardi Gras)
Originally released on Lanor, to the best of my knowledge (there are no notes on this one), these tracks date from the 1970s. Vin Bruce—who doubles as Bayou Lafouche’s port […]
Where is the Love?
While Barbara George scored one of New Orleans’ biggest hits “I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More),” which in 1961 rose to No. 3 in the pop charts and […]
Mitch Woods, Big Easy Boogie, (Club 88)
When a CD proclaims on its cover that it’s “the Big Easy version of the Buena Vista Social Club,” it’s only inviting criticism. Granted, Big Easy Boogie has its moments, […]
The Bad Roads,Live!, (Latanier)
The Bad Roads were a garage band from Lake Charles that cut a lone single for the Jin label in the 1960s. The single sold a couple hundred copies, the […]
Look for the Union Label
For the first time since Reconstruction, a man of color, “Deacon” John Moore, has been elected president of the local chapter of the Musicians Mutual Protective Union (local No. 174-496), […]
