Music
Alex McMurray, I Will Never Be Alone in This Land (Threadhead)
The Grand Sultan of St. Claude (and other streets) songwriting, Alex McMurray is among the best songwriters in New Orleans, a man who over the past two decades has written […]
Derrick Freeman, Blurple Pain (DF Records)
Blurple Pain has just about everything you ask for from a contemporary R&B/hip-hop record — great arrangements, truth-telling and consciousness-raising, comic relief, fine storytelling, memorable love songs, and tasteful instrumental […]
The Revelers, The Revelers (Independent)
Whaddya do when your bread-and-butter band slows down due to a crazy little thing called life? Form another one. That’s what most of the Red Stick Ramblers did by forming […]
The Tangle, Now We’re Awake (Piety Street Files and Archaic Media)
The fine debut record from The Tangle pairs the husband-and-wife team of vocalist D’Arcy Malone and guitarist Christopher Boye with New Orleans rock veterans Chris Johnson on bass and Mark […]
Huval, Dupuy & Fuselier, Cajun Band (Swallow)
Huval, Dupuy & Fuselier isn’t the name of a prestigious downtown law firm but the unveiling of the next generation of talented teenage Cajun musicians. Buy on AmazonEach has already […]
Mike Dillon Band, Urn (Royal Potato Family)
Mike Dillon’s music is not your granddaddy’s bebopping, finger-snapping, shades and beret, too-cool-for-school jazz. It has an intensity and attitude taken from punk rock and a slightly dirty, loud sound […]
Booker T. & the M.G.s, Green Onions (Stax)
As part of the Concord Music Group’s initiative to reissue the seminal Stax catalog comes the 50th anniversary release of Booker T. & the M.G.s’ classic album. Along with “Honky […]
Herb Hardesty & His Band, The Domino Effect (Ace)
This one’s a bit of a surprise. A cornerstone in the great Fats Domino band for decades, saxophonist Herb Hardesty only had a handful of solo 45s in the early […]
Norbert Susemihl, Night on Frenchmen Street (Independent)
For decades, European musicians have followed a path similar to that taken by Germany-born Norbert Susemihl. They discover classic New Orleans jazz as teenagers, travel to the Crescent City in […]
Walter Jr., The Sacraments (The Road to Emmaus Music, Inc.)
Lafayette bluesman Walter Jr. has grown more spiritual on his last few releases, and the seven-volume The Sacraments marks his most ambitious project yet. Each volume is a single track […]
