Music
Kermit Ruffins: We Partying Traditional Style (Basin Street)
It may have been the Beatles whose experimentation from album to album raised the expectation that recording musicians always had to do something different or unexpected with each new project. […]
Big Al and the Heavyweights: Sunshine on Me (Blusiana Music)
Buy on AmazonBuy on iTunes[iframe class=”spotify-right” src=”https://embed.spotify.com/?uri=spotify:album:61v1nJU2Ub8vmbfqgv2gYX” width=”300″ height=”380″ frameborder=”0″ allowtransparency=”true”] When the CD cues up and the first cut “Don’t You Want Me” starts, it’s obvious that Big Al […]
Honey Island Swamp Band: Cane Sugar (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
Good rock ‘n’ roll. You don’t realize how you miss it until it hits you full in the face like it does when you put Cane Sugar on whatever form […]
Soul Project: Music for Movers and Shakers (Frenchmen Street Records)
Buy on Amazon It’s good to hear a band whose sound hearkens to back in the day but also has a modern touch. Soul Project’s new record sounds like a […]
Terence Higgins SwampGrease II: Rage til Sunrise (Gris Gris Bag Entertainment)
Buy on AmazonBuy on iTunes Terence Higgins’ collective Swampgrease II is aptly named. This is some slippery music, flowing but not overflowing in tight vamps that move in, out, and […]
Jazz Fest 2013 Focus: Satan and Adam
Most blues fans have not heard of the guitarist Sterling Magee a/k/a “Five-Fingers Magee” who, after being discharged from the army in New York, wrote songs for Jesse Stone, recorded […]
Big Chief Monk Boudreaux:
Shaman of the Tribe
The clouds are gathering and darkening over the corner of 2nd and Dryades on Mardi Gras 2013. Rain has been forecast. The streets are crowded, and the once organized but […]
Social Set, Celebrate (Independent)
Celebrate is an apt name for this self-released record from the New Orleans five piece Social Set. The five songs here include 3 upbeat tracks and 2 slower numbers. All […]
Kidd Jordan, On Fire 2 (Engine Records)
Although saxophonist Kidd Jordan has entered an age when most musicians start to slow down or coast on former laurels, Jordan is still making exquisitely passionate, creative, and beautiful music. […]
Corey Harris, Fulton Blues (Njumba Records)
Although Corey Harris made his name as a Delta blues player that is not nearly the end of his talents. He has a well-deserved reputation for performing many different genres […]
