Music
Lee Rocker, Racin’ the Devil (Alligator Records)
There are enough skeletons, devils, crashed cars, and hellish flames on both the outside and inside of this CD to please even the most discriminating rockabilly enthusiast, but what’s most […]
Kristie Nalley & the Pagan Romantics, Kristie Nalley & The Pagan Romantics (Independent)
New Orleans has never had enough good chanteuses, especially in the rock category, and so Kristie Nalley’s debut EP Mama’s Wine turned a lot of heads last year, especially among […]
Travis Matte and the Zydeco Kingpins, Zydeco Train (Mhat Productions)
Any zydeco CD that features originals titled “Booty Call” and “Vibrator” is probably not out to please purists, especially when that same disc features covers of scrubboard standards like “La […]
Trey Anastasio, Shine (Columbia)
Now here’s irony for you: the first mainstream-accessible album by former Phish head Trey Anastasio comes tied down to a player that my Gateway can’t access. That is, the promo […]
Sleek & Horizen, Cheap Wisdom (Independent)
Now that the phrase “Where you at?” has taken on a whole new, post-Katrina meaning, it’s worth sending out the call for Sleek and Horizon, former rulers of the Hi-Ho […]
Steve Howell, Out Of the Past (Independent)
Texas native and Shreveport mainstay Steve Howell is one of those musicians who do double duty as scholars of a sort. He must have paid for this album’s fairly fat […]
Maria Muldaur, Sweet Lovin’ Of Soul (Stony Plain Music)
This former “Midnight At The Oasis” singer continues her roots renaissance of the last decade with this, the second in a tribute to pioneering blueswomen of the pre-war period and […]
Magic Slim & the Teardrops, Anything Can Happen (Blind Pig)
Magic Slim live. For fans of electric Chicago blues—South, not West, although the difference is, these days, largely academic—those three words will be all you need to hear before rushing […]
Delbert McClinton, Cost of Living (New West Records)
You have to admire a man who scatters his old drivers’ licenses—not blurred out, either, just strategically placed—all over the inside of his latest CD. It’s a telling gesture, a […]
Bobby Purify, Better To Have It (Proper American)
Caveat emptor: this is not the Bobby Purify of James and Bobby Purify, the mid-’60s soul duo best known for the classic ’66 ballad “I’m Your Puppet.” Well, not quite. […]
