Music
Stefon Harris, David Sánchez, Christian Scott, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante Records)
Ninety Miles is the distance between Miami and Havana, the closest points in the US and Cuba. This project, the companion CD to a documentary due later this summer, comes […]
Joe Hall and the Louisiana Cane Cutters, Thirty Dobb Special (Fruge Records)
Joe Hall and the Louisiana Cane Cutters’ last album, 2009’s Live at Nunu’s, was a show of brute force as the band raged through an amped-up set of Creole-Cajun chestnuts. […]
Various Artists, Mardi Gras Parade Music From New Orleans, Volume 2 (GHB Records)
Compilations of New Orleans Mardi Gras music have a tendency to adjust themselves to outside perceptions of the holiday rather than vice versa. Not so with GHB Records’ newest offering. […]
Don Vappie with the Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Rosenberg, Jazz Nocturne: American Concertos of the Jazz Age (Naxos Records)
As a classical music buff, I purchased this CD being curious of the works of the so-called “Girl Gershwin” Dana Suesse and of the other lesser-known composers of the “jazz […]
The New Orleans Bingo! Show, Volume 3: Memory Parade (Independent)
The circus came to town this summer. Elephants dumped in the streets of the CBD en route to their pedestals, and a brazen crier called for volunteers while a tamer […]
Kelly Carlyle, Stethoscope (Independent)
New Orleans, like the rest of the free world, has no shortage of folk-inspired singer/songwriters. As long as the acoustic guitar exists, there will be people pouring out their emotions […]
A. Levy, Commercial Break (mixtape)
A. Levy is an incredible rapper. He has mic control, breath control, a tight, rapid-fire flow, and his voice simply sounds great on tape. His name is mentioned a lot […]
Missing Monuments, Painted White (Sympathy for the Hardware Industry Records)
On Painted White, his first disc with Missing Monuments, singer and guitarist King Louie Bankston (here credited only as “Loomis”) combines the energy and maturity of a teenager with severe […]
Various Artists, Acadian All Star Special: The Pioneering Cajun Recordings Of J.D. Miller (Bear Family Records)
The overwhelming success of Harry Choates’ immortal “Jole Blon” in 1946 resulted in national notoriety and evolution into a country staple of sorts and the genesis of J.D. Miller’s record […]
Reverend John Wilkins, You Can’t Hurry God (Fat Possum Records)
It’s hard to believe that the same Fat Possum who put out the bad man blues of R.L. Burnside, T-Model Ford, and the “Crack Whore Blues” is now releasing a […]
