Joe “Survival” Caruso, I’ll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive (Southland)

Dr. John, Creole Moon (Blue Note)

Drunk!: A Satirical Essay on the Spirits of New Orleans

Earl King, King of New Orleans (Fuel 2000)

Me, Myself and I & I

Snooks Eaglin, The Crescent City Collection (Fuel 2000)

K-Doe without Tears

I was acquainted with Ernie K-Doe for many years, first encountering the man around 1965 at a “Teen Fair” held at the defunct Jung Hotel on Canal Street. Vic Despenza, […]

Various Artists, LOUISiana ARMSTRONG (Louisiana Red Hot Records)

Radiohead, Amnesiac (Capitol)

Aural Sect

When musicians record music, their hope is that listeners will be awed by their compositions’ melodies and riffs, blown away by the lead guitarist’s deconstruction of Django Reinhardt, left speechless […]