Issue Articles — Features
Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes: Ranger de Zydeco
Deep in the stately, dead-calm tranquility of the Barataria swamps, Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes reclines on a secluded bench and somberly spins a tale about his fleeting encounter with the “loup […]
Louisiana Home Grown
It is notoriously difficult to make money in the music business. For every U2 or Billy Ray Cyrus, there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of equally talented and/or deserving artists who […]
The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars
“This is new New Orleans party music, y’all!” It is a bright, cold afternoon, but the WWOZ studio is quickly heating up during an on-air performance by the New Orleans […]
The Coolest of ’92
JUST TOO COOL Nine of our writers document their coolest musical experiences of ‘92 — album, concert, or other. For a non-writer perspective, we asked a few familiar faces to […]
Postcards from the Edge: Willie Lockett & the Blues Krewe Survive and Prosper on Bourbon Street
You should have been there. After the convention, we headed for the French Quarter and wandered into Rhythms, this big patio with a circus-tent top near the Canal Street end […]
On A Binge
The cavernous wooden passageways of the weathered near the corner of Orleans and Broad are lonely on this Sunday night. On the second level, most of the tiny rehearsal rooms […]
Louisiana Folklife Festival
At the Louisiana Folklife Festival in Eunice November 13-15, zydeco and blues share center-stage with hand-stitched quilts, Italian stuffed artichokes and stories about Earl Long. The combination of crowd-pleasing dance […]
Mess O’ Blues
The Delmark, Rounder and Black Top labels insure that fall will offer up a bountiful harvest of blues albums. Is there any coincidence in the fact that we have […]
A Different Shade of Blues
We call it “the blues”. It looks like the blues, and sometimes even sounds like the blues. But can the confluence of styles in New Orleans, the good time capital […]
Leadbelly: His Life, His Legend
“Sweet Singer of the Swamplands Here To Do a Few Tunes Between Homicides” -New York Tribune, January 5, 1935, heralding the arrival of Leadbelly. In 1935 Huddie Ledbetter finished […]
