Issue Articles — Hidden Charms
Earl Stanley: Ninth Ward Rumble
Earl Stanley sits in the living room of his Metairie home, flanked by two splashy movie posters starring the East Side Kids and Cesar Romero. On the coffee table in […]
The Name Game
There are huge chunks of New Orleans’ musical past that seem destined to remain shrouded in mystery, yet none has proven more strangely elusive than its once-fertile, now-forgotten hillbilly music […]
Island on the Bayou
Troy Shondell If you take Highway 90 (or “Route 90” as Clarence “Bon Ton” Garlow would have it) out past Mosca’s Restaurant to the settlement of Des Allemands you’ll see […]
Detroit Creole
The evening of Saturday, July 15, will be a milestone for filmmaker Dan Rose. On that night at One Eyed Jacks, he’ll screen Wayne County Ramblin’, the film that he’s […]
The Other Chili Peppers
If there’s a singular source of pioneering Pachuco artistry that laid the groundwork for every Latino rock ‘n’ roll band from Sunny and the Sunglows to Sonny Ace and the […]
Christmas In July
It’s July 20, 2002 and I’m standing outside of the Millennium Theater in Southfield, Michigan, with my favorite soul singer of all time, Detroit’s Nathaniel Mayer. It’s a little hard […]
Love You, Kelly
There’s no taller order for a writer—or anyone else for that matter—than trying to translate into words the loss of a close friend. I’m talking, of course, about Kelly Keller, […]
Music to Mess Your Mind
Every fan of New Orleans garage punk has a dream. Chances are, if you polled this admittedly minuscule—but extremely rabid—group of music fanatics, they’d reveal without hesitation that that dream […]
Lollipoppin’ with Little Bob
Like so many of the world’s greatest albums, it stayed in print just long enough to become a cult classic. Forever enshrined on the jukeboxes at both the Circle Bar […]
