Music
Alex McMurray, Lucky One (Independent)
A new Alex McMurray album is a call for celebration. Not a huge, Mardi Gras-like celebration, because songwriters’ albums no longer define the zeitgeist as they once did. But definitely […]
Dopolarians, Garden Party (Mahakala)
Kidd Jordan is still a force of nature at age 84 even as he is limited physically by health problems. His tenor saxophone playing remains a standard against which excellence […]
Mac’s lifelong friend Stanley Chaisson opens his Dr. John vault
Dr. John passed away last June, but his music just keeps coming. Two significant releases have been issued posthumously and these may only be the tip of the iceberg, since […]
Ghost Stories: New Orleans musician Paul Sanchez tells his tale
It’s been 15 years since New Orleans was left for dead after Hurricane Katrina. Officials from the lowest to the highest level of government looted what was left of the […]
Marc Stone: Creating That Bridge
Marc Stone is planning a big celebration for his first headlining gig at Tipitina’s on October 3, the official release party for his latest album Live at Tipitina’s. The show […]
Art Neville Memorial
Grief is not an emotion that invites comparisons. It is an overwhelming, supernatural sense of loss that is an essential part of human consciousness, the realization that a part of […]
Charlie Wooton: Music evolves if not it’s just gonna get stale
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has paid attention to the evolution of New Orleans music in the 21st century that Charlie Wooton is one of the […]
Dave Bartholomew Memorial
The day after the massive funeral and second line for Dr. John, even as WWOZ was continuing its unprecedented marathon of Dr. John programming, the radio station broke […]
The Rolling Stones from the Inside Out: A conversation with Bernard Fowler
When the Rolling Stones come into town for the group’s No Filter tour, fans will be cheering original members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts. There might even be […]
In Memoriam: Spencer Bohren (1950 – 2019)
You had to be there. Spencer Bohren’s extensive catalog of recordings present him in all his strengths as a singer-songwriter, a guitarist who knew how to frame a song and […]
