December 2008
BackTalk
- Jimmy Webb
For this special Backtalk with songwriting legend Jimmy Webb, we asked songwriter Jim McCormick to do the interview. McCormick is a…
Bookmark
- Sean Manning (ed.), Rock and Roll Cage Match: Music's Greatest Rivalries, Decided (Three Rivers Press)
Biggest All-Time (Rock/Pop, at Least) Music Rivalry Left Untouched: “Beatles vs. Stones,” maybe because too many readers would find the…
Cover Story
- Quintron and Miss Pussycat: Homemade World
You don't expect to hear Mr. Quintron discuss a water pump. The world of Quintron and his wife/percussionist/puppeteer Miss Pussycat is…
Features
- Pat O'Brien's: The Songs Remain the Same
On Halloween night, Pat O’Brien’s piano bar was packed with costumed quaffers getting wild and singing along drunkenly to everything from… - Top 5 CDs: The Hot Fives
- Christmas CDs: Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree?
Fresh
- For a Song
A little piece of Nashville is moving to New Orleans. On the weekend of December 5 and 6, the Songfest Foundation,… - Dining with 70,000 Close Friends
A $100 dollar meal should be served piping hot by a uniformed waiter who remarks as he sets down the dish,… - Subdudes: Up Close and Personal
Fans of New Orleans-bred rock band the subdudes have a new DVD to tied them over until Jazz Fest, their next… - Howlin' Wolf is 20
1988… George Bush was elected the 41st President of the United States succeeding Ronald Reagan, Sidney Bartholomey was the mayor of… - Not a Typical Record Label
Music seems to be played around the clock and all year long in New Orleans, imbuing this city with a constant…
Letters
- December 2008 Letters
VIP PROBLEMS My girlfriend and I paid close to $1,000 for Voodoo Fest LOA (VIP) tickets and we feel, along with…
Mojo Mouth
- Love Letter to New Orleans
It’s the time of year where the weather’s cooling down, and everyone who lives in the North comes down here to…
OffBeat Eats
- Dining Out: Rambla
Tucked away on a construction-riddled street in the CBD is a delightful tapas restaurant nestled next to the International House Hotel.… - Will Mow for Steak
Dining Out
- December 2008 Letters
VIP PROBLEMS My girlfriend and I paid close to $1,000 for Voodoo Fest LOA (VIP) tickets and we feel, along with… - Dining Out: Rambla
Tucked away on a construction-riddled street in the CBD is a delightful tapas restaurant nestled next to the International House Hotel.… - Dining with 70,000 Close Friends
A $100 dollar meal should be served piping hot by a uniformed waiter who remarks as he sets down the dish,…
Reviews
- Topaz and Mudphonic, Music for Dorothy (Independent)
Is it possible to sell out by becoming a jam band? That's the question unfortunately raised by acid-jazz saxman Topaz McGarrigle… - Kan-Tu Blues Band, Live at the Village Trestle (Independent)
If you’re salivating over the prospect of a long overdue Rockin’ Jake record, you might have to wait a bit longer.… - Jimmy Hughes, Best of (Fame/EMI)
Often, we think of R&B and soul music as expressions of individual, passionate greatness—Otis, Aretha—when often, it’s nothing more or less… - Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Dirt Don't Hurt (Transdreamer)
Golightly and the Brokeoffs are a duo, which I suppose makes her partner, Lawyer Dave, the Brokeoffs. They treat country blues… - R.E.M., Murmur (A&M)
Twenty-five years ago when Murmur was released, R.E.M. sewed the seeds that would grow into indie rock. At the time, it… - The Abitians, New Mardi Gras Classics (Abitian)
If we’re honest in New Orleans, we’d admit that we believe the region and the state revolve around us. We see… - Bobby Lounge, Somethin's Wrong (Abitian)
If we’re honest in New Orleans, we’d admit that we believe the region and the state revolve around us. We see… - Walter Jr., The River Club (Gatortone)
Walter, Jr. has released three CDs since 2006 and every one of them has been distinctly different. Perhaps more so than… - Will Bernard, Blue Plate Special (Palmetto)
Will Bernard brought friends Stanton Moore, John Medeski and Andy Hess aboard for his latest release, Blue Plate Special. While the… - Ryan Foret and Foret Tradition, She's Mine (CSP Records)
What should go on forever sometimes doesn’t. The Foret Tradition, originally founded by then-teenage brothers Ryan and Brandon a decade ago,… - Various Artists, Her Name is New Orleans: Listen to the Women (Independent)
The liner notes explain, “With curves shaped by waters that provide and threaten, she cuddles you in the warmth of her… - James Harman, Two Sides to Every Story (Hep Cat)
This CD is part of the first batch of Black Top reissues appearing on Hep Cat. While Icepick James made several… - Chappo, Media Machine (Independent)
By combining his Louisiana upbringing with his current New York City residency, Alex Chappo has formed the sound of Chappo on… - Lenny LaCour, Walkin' the Bullfrog (Night Train)
After moving to Chicago in 1950 at the age of 19, Louisiana native Lenny LaCour’s big break came in 1955 when… - Dennis Stroughmatt, Cadet Rouselle: French Creole Fiddle Tunes & Ballads from Old Upper Louisiana, Volume II (Swallow)
Though he’s widely known for his Creole Stomp dance band, there’s another intriguing angle to Dennis Stroughmatt as revealed by this… - Dash Rip Rock, Country Girlfriend (Abitian)
You get the impression that with a case a beer, a couple of joints and a half-tuned guitar, Bill Davis can… - Earl "Washboard" Sally, Home Grown (Catfish Zydeco)
Zydeco is an accordion-dominated genre, so it’s rare when a non-accordionist releases an album. Earl Sally is a 30-year veteran who’s… - Various Artists, Swamp Pop Sweethearts (Jin)
Of the 1,378,432 swamp pop compilations on the market—oops, miscount, make that 1,378,433, this one has to be among the best.… - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All the Way (Rounder)
Banjomeister Bela trims the tree, pours out the eggnog, and lets anyone with the Christmas Spirit amble in to sit down… - Oscar "Papa" Celestin, Oscar "Papa" Celestin with Adolphe Alexander (American Music)
If you are interested in the history of New Orleans jazz, here’s an opportunity to own a piece of it. Papa… - David Egan, You Don't Know Your Mind (Out of the Past/Rhonda Sue)
Lafayette songwriter and piano player David Egan doesn’t hurry his art, releasing his second album in five years with You Don’t…
