Issue Articles — BackTalk
Colin Blunstone of The Zombies Talks Back
The return of the Zombies is one of music’s great comeback stories. Following a twenty-two-year hiatus, singer Colin Blunstone and keyboardist Rod Argent reunited in 1999 for an intended six performances only. By popular demand, the reunion continued, lasting more than two decades longer than the Zombies’ 1960s tenure in the music business.
Amy Ray talks back
Famous for being one-half of the Indigo Girls, Amy Ray also has a parallel solo career. She’ll perform with the Amy Ray Band at Tipitina’s on February 13, with Kevn Kinney, front man for Drivin N Cryin, opening the show.
Ernie Vincent talks back
Ernie Vincent has been a mainstay on the New Orleans music since the 1970s. On January 13, the singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer and band leader will release his latest album via the Birmingham, Alabama-based Cornelius Chapel Records. Titled Original Dap King, the project quite naturally presents Vincent performing his signature funk as well as psychedelicized blues and soul and swampy rock and roll.
Chris Isaak talks back
Chris Isaak’s new album arrives a few months after the Americana Music Association honored him with a lifetime achievement award. Everybody Knows It’s Christmas is the singer-songwriter’s second holiday album in a career that includes 14 albums, international hit singles and dozens of acting roles in film and television.
Dan Storper talks back
In 1967, when Dan Storper was 16, his aunt and uncle invited him to go on a trip with their family to northern Mexico. It was life-changing, to say the least.
Charlie Musselwhite talks back
Charlie Musselwhite’s full-circle life with the blues took him from Mississippi to Memphis, Memphis to Chicago, Chicago to San Francisco and, most recently, Northern California to Mississippi. “I’m just a […]
Ruthie Foster talks back
There likely aren’t many artists who have done versions of both Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” and the standard “Fly Me To the Moon,” the former front-porch blues style with a […]
Louis Armstrong biographer Ricky Riccardi talks back
Two big-name acts in New Orleans music, Louis Prima and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, led Ricky Riccardi to the city’s most beloved musician, none other than Louis Armstrong. In […]
Howie Kaplan Talks Back
In 2017, OffBeat’s Publisher/Editor-In-Chief Jan Ramsey wrote a feature in Mojo Mouth urging New Orleans to consider establishing a new “cabinet level” position of “Night Mayor” after learning that these […]
Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad talks back
OffBeat caught up with Mia Berrin of Pom Pom Squad before her show at Gasa Gasa on April 20. It’s part of her “Death of a Cheerleader’ tour supporting her […]
