Music
Rhythm & Groove Club, Groove Approved (Asend Music)
Allen Toussaint indeed has six degrees of separation (or less) from many of the giants still alive and working it in the music business, but Tommy Bolin alumni? In this […]
Betty Winn and One A-Chord, Praising In New Orleans (Spirit Records)
Betty Winn’s choir One A-Chord (not to be confused with other troupes bearing similar names around the country) has long been a favorite in the gospel tent at Jazz Fest, […]
Stover, Via Deluna (Independent)
Having already led a scene of roots-rock freaks and collaborated with everyone in town but Morgus, setting famous poems to music is apparently the only direction left for Dave Stover […]
The Festers, Songs Drinkin’ Live (Independent)
Speaking of parties, no town on earth — save perhaps New York — has needed a New Year’s Eve celebration the way New Orleans did recently. Stover’s jam-band collective, the […]
Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Take Me Back (Independent)
Even in New Orleans, you don’t usually find funk bands as brassy, brass bands as funky, or brass-funk bands as jazzy as Big Sam’s Funky Nation. But above all else […]
Jeff Chaz, In Exile (JCP)
In recent years, Jeff Chaz served as one of a trio of blues performers who’d stuck it out on Bourbon Street, playing for locals who somehow got the impression New […]
Saffire, The Uppity Blues Women: Deluxe Edition (Alligator)
Deluxe Edition of what? Well, of Saffire itself. Don’t mistake this for a remodeled version of this group’s self-titled 1990 debut; this is a greatest hits, pure and simple, culling […]
