Music
Bob Dylan, Bootleg Series #10: Another Self Portrait (Sony)
1970’s Self Portrait goes down in history as Bob Dylan’s least understood album; but in truth there wasn’t much to understand: It was nothing more or less than a relaxed […]
Cyril Neville, Magic Honey (Ruf Records)
Cyril Neville is at once among the best-known and most-overlooked musicians in town. As a Neville Brother and former Meter, he’s automatic royalty, but his long catalogue of solo albums—some […]
Kristina Morales and the Bayou Shufflers, Louisiana Fairytale (Independent)
Kristina Morales and the Bayou Shufflers keep it sweet and lowdown on the band’s debut CD, which takes its cue—as well as its title—from a Fats Waller tune. Digging in […]
Trombone Shorty, Say That to Say This (Verve)
This is the album that fans probably expected Trombone Shorty to make three years ago—a straight-ahead R&B disc. At the time, Shorty instead hooked up with Galactic’s Ben Ellman, whose […]
Jim McCormick, The Middle of the River (Threadhead Records)
It’s been a bumper crop lately for New Orleans’ native son/Nashville songwriter Jim McCormick, who co-wrote number-one hits for country hat acts Jason Aldean (“Take a Little Ride”) and Brantley […]
Drew Meez on the Keys, Dressed, No Pickles (Independent)
With no less than four, count ’em, four, local bands—P.Y.M.P., Gravity A, Fred and the Big Easy Bounce Band—keyboardist Drew Meez has been, no pun intended, instrumental in bringing urban […]
Alex Chilton, Electricity by Candlelight (NYC 2/13/97) (Bar None)
Recorded on a portable cassette machine (and sounding that way), this oft-bootlegged tape catches an impromptu acoustic set that Alex Chilton played after power went out at New York’s Knitting […]
Allen Toussaint, Songbook (Rounder)
What’s surprising about this live album isn’t so much the music, but the talking in between. The year 2009 was a late-career peak for Allen Toussaint, who was still on […]
The Melatauns, Bards of Melatonia (Independent)
From the sounds of this record, Melatonia is the extra-dimensional world where the drinks are always cold, the nights breezy, the music rocking, and the musicians loose. When you find […]
Smithfield Fair Stick, Brick & Mortar (Stevenson Productions)
Stick, Brick & Mortar marks Smithfield Fair’s 28th album of a 40-year career as a family band that started with Charmer in 1973 and its current name, changed in ’89, […]
