Issue Articles — Features
Mardi Gras Music
Ah yes, it’s that time of year again in the ol’ Big Easy…a town where as soon as the Christmas decorations come down, the Mardi Gras decorations go up. A […]
Rockin’ Dopsie Rules
It’s Friday night at the Maple Leaf Bar in New Orleans. The pressed-tin walls of the Victorian-era dime store are being rattled royally by dark men with strange armor and […]
Francis X. Pavy: Zydeco Picasso
Swamp pop painter Francis X. Pavy makes art you can dance to. Born on the bayous of southwest Louisiana, his one-man-band of amplified visuals reach out and grab you like […]
The Year of the Wolf: Walter “Wolfman” Washington
When we began discussing possible covers for our 1991 year-end issue, the choice quickly became obvious. Only one act managed to release not one, but two strong albums of decidedly […]
Stuff We Liked in ’91
Everybody knows that year-end Top 10 lists are unfair (who, after all, has heard it all?), but we still love to read them. So we had the staff and a […]
Baton Rouge Blues: A Chemical City Shakedown
For Steven Coleridge, what originally began as a trip to do research on the late bluesman Slim Harpo has evolved into the founding of the most comprehensive recording project of […]
Chris Whitley Lives with the Law
Out on a range in a season too soonNo electric light up in my roomWith a dark skin woman I’m naked and saneYou could learn about the world in an […]
John Campbell: One Believer
Shadows dance in liquid pools of light spilled by candles, dozens of them, burning steadily into this midsummer night. Ancient skulls stare down at us with hollow-eyed serenity. And though […]
For Art’s Sake
Art lovers and social animals, take note. That season’s here again, the time to gallery hop instead of bar bop (the art scene’s so much more hip). The Contemporary Arts […]
