Issue Articles — Cover Story
Mark Bingham of Piety Street Recording: No Shit
Mark Bingham is good at multitasking. The enigmatic, wisecracking denizen of Piety Street Recording is a jack of all trades on his home turf. Behind the mixing board in his […]
Jeremy Davenport: Get a Room
The swagger in Jeremy Davenport’s step is a little more exaggerated these days. He’s riding high on the success of his residence at the Ritz-Carlton on Canal Street, a new […]
Back to the Future
DJ Captain Charles For someone who never thought he’d be involved with music, Charles Leach is the captain of his ship. Leach, known to his New Orleans followers as DJ […]
Perfect Balance: Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint finally looks comfortable. We’ve finished talking and during the conversation, he expressed concern that he wasn’t a good interview. He was gentlemanly as you’d expect, forthright, and though […]
Paul Sanchez: Musician, Heal Thyself
“I hadn’t tuned a guitar in years.” For years, someone handed Paul Sanchez a tuned guitar when he walked onstage with Cowboy Mouth. If it went out of tune, there […]
Irvin Mayfield’s Art of the Deal
It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon in February and the French Quarter is buzzing with celebrants preparing for the first Mardi Gras parade of the season, the Krewe du Vieux. Irvin […]
BeauSoleil: Beau Brothers
Back in 1986, when BeauSoleil was first starting to tour a lot outside Louisiana, back when the Doucet brothers still had a bit of hair atop their heads, the band […]
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music: Bo Dollis
Theodore Emile “Bo” Dollis was born on January 14, 1944 with an extraordinary gift that eventually made him a sacred figure in New Orleans and a fabulous symbol of the […]
Quintron and Miss Pussycat: Homemade World
You don’t expect to hear Mr. Quintron discuss a water pump. The world of Quintron and his wife/percussionist/puppeteer Miss Pussycat is rarely so mundane, but while in New York City […]
Don Vappie: Give Me Back My Banjo
In 2007, the Folk Alliance hosted a concert by three banjo players at Memphis’s Marriott Hotel. The three men sat in a semi-circle of chairs, the drum-like bodies of the […]
