Music
Craig Brenner, Live at the Old Mint (Independent)
This album’s subtitle promises “Blues & Boogie Woogie Piano” and it’s accurate in at least that respect: Pianist Craig Brenner is equally fluent in New Orleans piano, straight blues, even […]
Billy Pierce & Friends, Take Me back to the Delta (Independent)
Johnny Sansone, Sonny Landreth, and the Bonerama horn section are just some of the impressive friends who give their blessing to this Delaware slide-blues axe man, and he responds on […]
Pontchartrain Wrecks, Pontchartrain Wrecks (Independent)
Strange as it seems to contemplate now, the Causeway that stretches across Lake Pontchartrain was originally laid down in two pieces—the first span was actually one bouncy two-lane track with […]
Jamie Bernstein, WhoonDang (Independent)
Despite hailing from the Appalachians and spending the last two decades in the Crescent City, Americana artist Jamie Bernstein has exactly one great story to tell on this album—and it’s […]
Jon Roniger, Gypsyland (Nola Baby Records)
A songwriter with a folkie’s approach who plays trad-jazz-flavored pop in acoustic as well as en français, Jon Roniger’s milieu is gypsy jazz in both form and function, though his […]
The Dirty Bourbon River Show Brings its Gypsy-Brass Circus Rock to Jazz Fest
Right in the middle of one of Noah Adams’ patented speed raps, rapid-fire musings that reveal much about the sound and style of his musical troupe, Dirty Bourbon River Show, […]
The Longtime Goners, The Longtime Goners (Independent)
The Longtime Goners are probably the most authentic sounding of the local bands signing up for the Americana Revolution, more Hank Sr. and Johnny Cash than Petty or Eagles. So […]
Street Songs: Nathan Rivera, Nathan Rivera (Independent) and Shine Delphi, Something Good… (Independent)
When they’re playing and performing together, which is often, these two seasonal NOLA street musicians call themselves the Black Resonators, after their nearly identical guitars. They’re also their own men […]
Moses Patrou, Can’t Stop, Vol. 1 (Independent)
Moses Patrou is a jazz drummer from Nashville, but even that odd teaser doesn’t begin to describe the depth and breadth of his CV; he learned at the metaphorically funky […]
The Parishioners, Blame It on the Weather (Independent)
This five-piece likes to call what it does “Gothic Americana”—but dark punkabilly it ain’t. Even more so than last year’s full-length debut, Putting the Past to Rest, this follow-up EP […]
