Music
The Gourds, Haymaker! (Yep Roc)
Like the best of today’s roots-rockers, the Gourds burn with an honesty and simplicity that keeps the music in perspective. No character is a cliché, no story drowns in either […]
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Alligator Purse (Yep Roc)
BeauSoleil has long been a band that can be taken for granted. To win Grammys, to become representative of a genre, and to become keepers of a cultural flame can […]
JJ Grey & Mofro, Orange Blossoms (Alligator)
If there was one thing that made artists establish Stax Records and the Muscle Shoals studios as their homes away from home, it was economy. From the punchy horn arrangements […]
The Iguanas, If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times (Yep Roc)
When it comes to the Iguanas, patience is a virtue. With If You Should Ever Fall on Hard Times, the New Orleans group has proven once again that it’s worth […]
Various Artists, Honeydripper Soundtrack (Rhino)
Perhaps the most curious disappointment of John Sayles’ latest film, Honeydripper is its woeful unemployment of the music it is supposed to celebrate. Set at a small Alabama juke joint […]
Feufollet, Low Island Hop (Valcour)
Cow Island Hop finds Feufollet all grown up with somewhere to go. Formed in 1995 by accordionist and fiddler Chris Stafford and Chris Segura when Stafford was 8 and Segura […]
Tom Scott, Cannon Re-Loaded: A Celebration of Cannonball Adderley (Concord Records)
The year 2007 was an incredibly busy year for the seemingly always-busy New Orleans jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard. Along with earning two Grammy Awards (winning one) for leading his quintet […]
Various Artists, Monterey Jazz Festival: 50th Anniversary All-Stars (Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival) (Monterey Jazz Fest)
The year 2007 was an incredibly busy year for the seemingly always-busy New Orleans jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard. Along with earning two Grammy Awards (winning one) for leading his quintet […]
Cowboy Junkies, Trinity Revisited (Latent/Zoe)
The Cowboy Junkies didn’t so much burst onto the roots-rock scene with The Trinity Session in 1987 so much as they crept onto it, masters of restraint in their moody […]
