Issue Articles
Jimmy’s Celebrates Its First 15 Years; Harold Battiste Recuperating
It’s been 15 years since Jimmy Anselmo purchased the pool hall at 8200 Willow Street, booted out the regular clientele—which mostly consisted of patients from a methadone clinic up the […]
John Campbell Remembered
John Campbell, the Shreveport-born slide guitarist and self-professed hoodoo man, hated going to sleep, for fear he would not wake up. “He didn’t like the day to end,” remembers his […]
Daniel Lanois’ Dilemma
Sometime New Orleans resident Daniel Lanois is one of the world’s most sought after producers—so busy, in fact, that he rarely finds time to work at his French Quarter studio. […]
New Orleans Hip-Hop: Whither Rap?
The bridges that link New Orleans’ rap and hip-hop community to the more traditional pillars of the city’s musical legacy go well beyond some rappers’ fondness for sampling the Meters […]
The Butthole Surfers, State Palace Theater, June 23, 1993
Production deadlines meant we worked through the first three bands on this bill (Basehead, fiREHOSE and the Stone Temple Pilots) before sauntering across Canal Street into a packed, steam bath-like […]
Miniature Jazz Fest Goes on Tour; Big Sun Celebrates New Disc
If it works here, why not everywhere? Producers of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival have teamed up with San Francisco-based promoter Bill Graham Presents to test the national […]
A Little Bit of Little Richard
It was a lovely May afternoon in Hollywood and Little Richard was in no mood to dwell on the past. No sooner was he on the line that he announced, […]
Blues Traveler: Just Passing Through
John Popper and the rest of Blues Traveler, the New York-based gang of jam-happy road warriors that he fronts, are tied to Louisiana well beyond the obvious. The band’s set […]
The Allman Brothers Band’s Warren Haynes: Fest Focus
On this, Allman Brothers guitarist Warren Haynes’ second trip to the Jazz Fest, he’ll be working when he’s playing. Over the two-and-a-half days he’ll be in town, he’s scheduled to […]
