Issue Articles
Obituary: Irving “Sully” Banister Sr. (1933 – 2020)
Irving Banister, the prolific and talented New Orleans guitarist, died December 15. He was 87. Born February 16, 1933, Banister was an alumnus with Sugar Boy Crawford’s Cha-Paka-Sha-Wees, Eddie Bo’s […]
Sonny Green, Found! One Soul Singer (Little Village Foundation)
Hailing from Monroe, Louisiana, but made a “name” in South L.A., this soulful dude is Tony the Tiger great! In the early ‘70s, Green had a string of great 45s […]
Jimmie Vaughan, The Pleasure’s All Mine: The Complete Blues, Ballads and Favourites (Last Music Company)
How can you say anything bad about this one? Over two dozen of my/your favorite tunes played by a stellar Austin band which features probably the best Texas blues guitarist […]
Various Artists, A Cellarful of Motown! Volume 5 (Caroline)
Outside of the soulless Donald Trump, and the Charlie McCarthy clone Mike Pence, who doesn’t love Motown? After 10 years and thinking the Motown vault was finally purged of rarities […]
Van Broussard, Blue-Eyed Soul Legend Dies at 83
Van Broussard, a bonafide Louisiana blue-eyed soul legend, died at his Prairieville, Louisiana home November 17. He was 83. Broussard’s popularity was unexplainably limited, even in Louisiana. But Van Broussard […]
Sugar Ray and the Bluetones featuring Little Charlie, Too Far from the Bar (Severn)
Members of the second-generation blues revival, these guys started making names for themselves back in the mid-1980s. Hard workers and prolific to say the least, this new release is very […]
Sidney Noel “Morgus” Rideau (1929-2020)
Sidney Noel Rideau, best known to thousands of New Orleans baby-boomers as Dr. Morgus, the well-meaning, colorful genius/mad scientist of the higher order, who hosted B-rated horror movies every Saturday […]
Eddie Floyd with Tony Fletcher, Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul (BMG Books)
What else could you entitle an Eddie Floyd biography? His signature song, from Stax Records in 1966 has long been a classic and Floyd was a major figure and the […]
Dan Penn, Living On Mercy (Last Music)
The Tennessee Williams of modern Southern Soul songwriters, Dan Penn is still composing timely and emotive material at the age of nearly 80. An otherwise taciturn and humble man […]
Bobby Rush, Rawer Than Raw (Deep Rush)
For a guy facing his 90th birthday, Bobby Rush sure doesn’t let any grass grow under his feet. We just reviewed his then new CD, Sittin’ On Top […]
