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Get What You Pay For?
Amazon.com has its 25 Days of Free promotion, making available a new song each day for download. Here’s the scorecard so far: Dec. 1: “Joy to the World” by Casting […]
Still Got a Long Way to Go
As we reported yesterday, the court of appeals upheld a partial summary judgment against Tuff-N-Rumble, co-holder of the copyright of “It Ain’t My Fault” with the song’s writers, Smokey Johnson […]
Music’s Political Future?
As the year comes to a close, the candidates for the new mayor of New Orleans are declaring their intentions as I write this. In order to run, you have […]
Better Late Than Never
Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu announced that he’s joining the race for mayor of New Orleans. I suspect his opponents will make a big deal of his early announcement not […]
Bob on Bob
In the new issue, I reviewed Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart, which I think has received a lot of cheap negative reviews based on the simple premise that it’s […]
Reading’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Buckwheat Zydeco’s Lay Your Burden Down has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Cajun/Zydeco Album category, which adds credence to my belief that Grammy voters are going on […]
Grammy Has a Crazy Stick
After a few years when the Grammys seemed at least partially tethered to planet Earth, they returned to form this year, seeming more like a crotchety old man waving his […]
Lolet Meets Drew Brees
Damn, I love stuff like this…got this from Lolet Boutté, who just moved back from Houston–after being there for four years, post-Katrina. She’s got a great place in the Musicians’ […]
Mama Maseca
It wasn’t until I made tamales for my friend Golden two years ago that I realized that I had no idea what I was doing. It became clear that I […]
No Mayor Mayfield
Yesterday the Associated Press reported that trumpeter Irvin Mayfield has decided not to run for mayor of New Orleans. When we first reported that he was going to run, we […]
