Marcia Ball, So Many Rivers (Alligator)

Zion Trinity, Eyes on Zion (Independent)

Pierson, Parker, Janovitz, From a Window: Lost Songs of Lennon & McCartney (Gallery Six Records)

Buck Provosty, Piety Street Sessions (Independent)

Jimmy Thackery and the Drivers, True Stories (Telarc Blues)

Robert Belfour, Pushin’ My Luck (Fat Possum)

Secret Black Society, Secret Black Society (Independent)

The Bluebirds, Highway 80 East (Louisiana Red Hot Records)

Raymond Miles, A Taste of Heaven (Legacy/Honey Darling)

Backtalk: Irma Thomas

No other city can lay claim to as many unsung musical geniuses as New Orleans. It’s caused by the same combination of provinciality and miscegenation that makes the city such […]