Music
Alabama Slim, The Parlor (Cornelius Chapel Records/Music Maker Relief Foundation)
When I saw this CD’s primitive package and reading Alabama Slim’s bio, I thought someone was perpetrating hoax, creating the Sidd Finch [fictional baseball player] of the blues community. Come […]
Bobby Mitchell, Try Rock and Roll (Jasmine)
An early proponent of the South Louisiana B-flat ballad, the tracks found on Bobby Mitchell’s Try Rock and Roll have been around the block several times on several formats. Consisting of […]
Kim Wilson, Take Me Back! The Big Tone Sessions (M.C. Records)
It’s ironic that two ex-bandmates from Austin’s Fabulous Thunderbirds would have overlapping new CDs. Of course, here, Wilson headed up his band on harp and vocals and ex-T-bird six-string Jimmie […]
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 […]
