Issue Articles — Jazz Fest Focus
Fest Focus: Kim Carson
Since she just lost her job, and her RV did in fact break down on a trip back from Nashville, it certainly appears that outlaw crooner Kim Carson now officially […]
Fest Focus: Los Lobos
Uncertainty can paralyze, but in the case of Los Lobos, it produced a Kiss-like outpouring of solo projects and a Grammy. In 1997, the’ band left Warner Brothers, their label […]
Fest Focus: Davell Crawford
New Orleans is probably the only city that might accurately be described as a musical conservatory unto itself. To paraphrase the sign on Bourbon Street’s Famous Door, through the portals […]
Fest Focus: Rosie Ledet
Don’t be surprised if you catch Rosie Ledet stifling a yawn or two between songs during her Jazz Fest set. With a her fifth CD just released I’m A Woman […]
Fest Focus: Bobby “Blue” Bland
Fame and notoriety have hovered close to Bobby “Blue” Bland for over four decades. It’s always been close, but it’s never quite touched him. Nevertheless, Bland’s rich blend of gospel […]
Fest Focus: Charles Brown
The blues of Charles Brown is urbane and stylish and sad, and jazzy in its intelligence. It seduces and enchants. It is a saxophone. In a nightclub. Two hours before […]
Fest Focus: Sonny Landreth
Sometime before dawn, a tugboat, regularly moves its freight up the darkened Vermilion River, south of Lafayette, inching through black woods and inky water. Then a lone red light is […]
Fest Focus: Randy Newman
Don’t remember much about my baby days But I been told We used to live on Willow in the Garden District Next to the Sugar Bowl – Randy Newman, “New […]
Fest Focus: Governor Jimmie Davis
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine … “ The song’s been covered by Lawrence Welk and Cowboy Mouth, Mitch Miller and Mitch Ryder, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Willie […]
Fest Focus: The Band
When recent Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Band arrive for two Jazz Fest performances, drummer and lead vocalist Levon Helm will be commemorating an early, New Orleans-induced […]
