October 2006
BackTalk
- Patterson Hood
Drive-By Truckers: Voodoo Music Experience: City Park, October 28 A Blessing and a Curse is the title of the Drive-By Truckers’…
Cover Story
- The Boys' Life: Wilson Savoy and the Pine Leaf Boys
For Wilson Savoy and Cedric Watson, forming the Pine Leaf Boys has helped them reconnect to their roots. On the…
Features
- Classic Songs of Louisiana: "My Toot Toot"
- Where is the Love?
While Barbara George scored one of New Orleans’ biggest hits “I Know (You Don’t Love Me No More),” which in 1961… - Before The Whisky
Fresh
- The Best Medicine
Art courtesy of Peter Bagge (cartoonish second line poster) “Katrina killed my mom,” says New Orleans comedian/musician P.H. Fred’s MySpace page.… - The Little Woman
- Fats Domino Inks New Record Contract (Sort Of)
- The Re-Immersion in Blind Joe Death
- The Power of Cake
- The Voice of Experience
- Big Chief on the Battlefront
Big Chief Alfred Doucette of the Flaming Arrows Mardi Gras Indians is mad at Chris Rose. Last November, Rose wrote a…
Letters
Mojo Mouth
Reviews
- Grayson Capps, Wail & Ride (Hyena)
On Grayson Capps’ self-titled Hyena debut from 2005, he sounded a bit like an actor playing blues singer. He did take… - Stanton Moore, III, (Telarc)
There’s a lot to admire about Stanton Moore’s new album. It’s hardly a solo show; even though his name is… - Rex Moroux, Royal Street Inn, (Independent)
As a guest of the esteemed Royal Street Inn—the rooms upstairs from the R Bar—a visitor puts himself or herself in… - Spencer Bohren, The Long Black Line, (Valve)
It’s no surprise that Spencer Bohren would find an interesting musical way to address the hurricane and its effects. As… - Mitch Woods, Big Easy Boogie, (Club 88)
When a CD proclaims on its cover that it’s “the Big Easy version of the Buena Vista Social Club,” it’s only… - Pitts vs. Preps, Below and Beyond, (Independent)
Pitts vs. Preps is the most recent project from local metal pioneer Kyle Thomas. His previous two bands, Floodgate and Exhorder,… - The Nouveau String Band with Marce Lacouture,The Nouveau String Band with Marce, (Independent)
- The Bad Roads,Live!, (Latanier)
The Bad Roads were a garage band from Lake Charles that cut a lone single for the Jin label in the… - Redbeards,Redbeards, (Heart Break Beat)
- Metronome The City,Electric Elements Exposed, (Independent)
- The Original Pin Stripe Brass Band, I Wanna Go Back to New Orleans, (Orleans)
- Butch Cage & Willie B. Thomas,Old Time Black Southern String Band Music, (Arhoolie)
With the relatively recent passing of African-American fiddler Howard “Louie Bluie” Armstrong and the aging of the remaining few practitioners like… - Hazard County Girls, Divine Armor, (Rev'd Up)
- Lee Benoit, Ma Petite Femme, (Old Man)
- Don Byron, Do the Boomerange: the Music of Junior Walker,(Blue Note)
