Issue Articles — BackTalk
Boozoo Chavis
These days, talking with Boozoo Chavis — whose 1954 single “Paper in My Shoe” has been called the “first-ever zydeco hit” — is like talking to Muhammed Ali and Little […]
Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur is excited. Her new Telarc release, Fanning the Flames, (which was recorded in Louisiana at Dockside Studios) has just debuted on Billboard’s Blues charts in the good company […]
Geno Delafose
At 25 years of age, Geno Delafose is one of the few second-generation zydeco musicians to find himself following successfully in his father’s footsteps. Yet not only has he followed […]
Charmaine Neville
Charmaine Neville, daughter of famed sax player Charles Neville of the Neville Brothers, has created a music and singing career that’s hers and hers alone.
Terence Blanchard
A very ordinary looking Fed-ex parcel stood on the porch of Terence Blanchard’s lovely Garden District home on a bright, unusually mild June morning. I soon discovered, however, upon handing […]
