Music
Corey Harris, Daily Bread (Rounder)
Most artists who take a spiritual journey back to their homeland usually return with a somewhat bowdlerized version of their ancestry—they may want to make the connection with their roots, […]
Stover, Stover (Independent)
After years playing in some of this town’s more interesting roots-rock bands (Bad Mayo, Schatzy, and the Fessters), it makes sense that bassist Dave Stover would want to drop the […]
The Blackfire Revelation, Gold and Guns on 51 (Southern Reconstruction Records)
You might call this pair of locals a power duo—Soundgarden using the White Stripes’ modus operandi, the kind of band that overdubs itself into a garage-metal frenzy. With Hank Haney […]
Shotgun House, Shotgun House (Independent)
New Orleans doesn’t have much of a Delta blues tradition. That would be musically and geographically anomalous, not to mention weird. But this largely acoustic duo, which has been creating […]
Jimbo Mathus, Knockdown South (Knockdown South Records)
This white Clarksdale native uses the nebulous phrase “Mississippi Music” to answer that age-old interviewer question: what are your influences? It makes perfect sense in the context of this, his […]
George Porter’s Joy Ride, Searching for a Joy Ride (Night Train)
It’s 1980, and George Porter, Jr., already one of the world’s most celebrated bassists and part architect of the famous Meters rhythm section, is temporarily fed up with the music […]
Various Artists, Funky Funky New Orleans: Vol. 5 (Funky Delicacies)
This latest in the series of rare funk releases on Tuff City’s Funky Delicacies imprint shows that the vast reserve of unheralded groove from the Crescent City’s salad days remains […]
James Blood Ulmer, Birthright (Hyena Records)
In the press release for this CD, Hyena rather puckishly refers to it as “James Blood Ulmer’s first solo album,” possibly confusing those who aren’t familiar with this groundbreaking guitarist’s […]
Joe Krown Organ Combo, Livin’ Large (Independent)
Joe Krown, New Orleans’ premier authority on the Hammond B-3 organ, has worn any number of musical hats in his career: stride pianist, lounge lizard, boogie-woogie fiend, jazz organist, bringer […]
