Issue Articles
Ponderosa Stomp Focus: Kenny Brown
Widely known for his years as the co-guitarist, right-hand-man, and virtual adopted son of the late Hill Country blues great R.L. Burnside, Kenny Brown is a man with more blues […]
Ponderosa Stomp Focus: Barbara Lynn
When I first saw Barbara Lynn play live at the Circle Bar about five years ago, I was gobsmacked. She could sing like Irma Thomas and play guitar like Ike […]
Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts, Come Back To Louisiana (Allons)
Encyclopedic music aficionados take on a risky gambit when they decide to make music of their own. The knowledge that gives them inspiration and a formidable arsenal of ideas can […]
Frank Wright, Unity (ESP-Disk)
Now that the legendary ESP-Disk label—home to Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, the Fugs, and a host of other mavericks in the mid-’60s—is back up and running, we’re getting the added […]
Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue, Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue (HTR Records)
The strains of country music known as honky-tonk and western swing are mostly associated with states like Texas, Alabama, and Tennessee, but there’s a significant tributary in Louisiana (Louisiana Hayride […]
The Magnetic Ear, After The Rain (Independent)
German-born/New Orleans-based saxophonist Martin Krusche currently leads a revolving cast of local players under the Magnetic Ear moniker, but After the Rain documents a trio version of the group in […]
Various Artists, Fonotone Records (Dust to Digital)
Though not as well known as Alan Lomax or Harry Smith, Fonotone Records founder Joe Bussard did as much as anybody to preserve and promote America’s raw indigenous musics as […]
Stanley Crouch, Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz (Basic Civitas)
Considering Genius collects jazz writing spanning 27 years from the famed polemicist of jazz’s neo-conservative movement, Stanley Crouch. The 30 pieces collected here constitute not so much a book about […]
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Brotherman in the Fatherland (Live in Germany 1972) (Hyena)
Roland Kirk is a tough one to pigeonhole for those who subscribe to the linear-progressive model of jazz history — that style A begat style B, etc. and that each […]
Afrissippi, Fulani Journey (
Afrissippi isn’t so much a band as it is a project that explores the oft-discussed link between the Blues and African music. The blues in this case is the North […]
