Music
Coot, Coot (Independent)
J.J. Cale backed by Little Feat? It sounds like an odd combination—laid-back frontman meets swampy, eclectic backup group—but that’s exactly what you think of upon a listen to this New […]
Sour Sedans, Taste It (Independent)
Listening to “Runaway,” the first track on this guitar-slinging Lafayette band’s debut, you might think that lead singer Ryan Cazares is really some long-lost Van Zandt brother. The vocal resemblance […]
Larry Ankrum, The Dream of the Ballerina (Independent)
It’s Larry Ankrum’s party and he’ll solo if he wants to. The Minneapolis-bred woodwinds player, who lived in New Orleans for a number of years and now resides in Los […]
Next Collective, Cover Art (Concord)
The idea for this album should prompt a few red flags: A bunch of young-gun jazzmen (and guest trumpeter Christian Scott) cover material by Pearl Jam, Dido, Drake, Bon Iver […]
Miss Sophie Lee, Love Street Lullaby (Threadhead Records)
Vocalist Lee has been a popular local presence since moving to town from Chicago in 2001. But her Threadhead debut isn’t merely a love letter to New Orleans—it’s a love […]
Sonia Tetlow, Own Way Home (Threadhead Records)
Sonia Tetlow was the second of four female singer/bassists to join Cowboy Mouth in remarkably quick succession, and she’s now the second (after Mary Lasseigne) to make a solo album. […]
Rhino Electro-Acoustic Project, Purple Green & Gold Blues (Independent)
At this time of year, any funky jazz album with hardly any ballads is a Mardi Gras album by default. There aren’t any familiar Indian chants or carnival chestnuts on […]
Harry Bodine, Travellin’ the Southland (EP) (Independent)
There’s always been a kinship between New Orleans and Austin, Texas—Cyril Neville, Marcia Ball, the Iguanas and Theresa Andersson are among the musicians who’ve lived in both cities. So it […]
John Lee Hooker Jr., All Hooked Up (Steppin’ Stone)
When the first song on a blues album includes the line “All her friends was on Facebook,” you can assume that the artist isn’t living in the past—especially when the […]
Dash Rip Rock, Black Liquor (Alternative Tentacles)
Behind Dash Rip Rock’s party-band exterior has always been a dead serious Southern rock group kicking to get out. The last two Dash albums, Country Girlfriend and Call of the […]
