Issue Articles
In Memoriam: Art Neville (1937 – 2019)
Arthur Lanon Neville—“Poppa Funk”—a keyboardist, New Orleans music icon and downright great individual, died July 22 after several years of declining health. He was 81. Jerry Wexler once described Neville’s […]
In Memoriam: Dave Bartholomew (1918 – 2019)
Described as a pioneer, an innovator, a genius, and a slave driver in the recording studio, Dave Bartholomew died at a suburban hospital June 23, 2019. He was 100. Forever […]
South To Louisiana—The Music of the Cajun Bayous 2nd Edition (Pelican Publishing)
A testament to the readability and subject matter of the 1983 first edition of South to Louisiana, is that I bought two copies of it—and they both got stolen from […]
In Memoriam: Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal (1944 – 2019)
Dubbed “the gentle giant of guitar” by the esteemed producer Allen Toussaint, Paul “Lil’ Buck” Sinegal died at his Lafayette home June 10, after a lengthy illness. He was 75. […]
Jimmie Vaughan, Baby, Baby Please Come Home (The Last Records)
The gangster of the blues guitar, and one-time original member of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Texan Jimmie Vaughan is back with his latest outing, and if you’re a blues fan, you […]
In Memoriam: Margaret Lewis Warwick (1940-2019)
Margaret Warwick, an acclaimed Shreveport, Louisiana singer, songwriter, producer, publisher, and trail blazing music executive, died March 29, after a brief illness. She was 79. Lewis was a former chairperson […]
Various Artists, Cover Me: The Eddie Hinton Songbook (Ace)
In reissuing the crème de la crème from Eddie Hinton’s catalog, Ace has again mined the Muscle Shoals music catalogue. A talented songwriter, producer and guitarist, the late Hinton might […]
Little Freddie King, Absolutely the Best (WadeRight Records)
Little Freddie King: Raucous Blues from the Bywater Despite posing on the Absolutely the Best cover—and on stages on the festival circuit—in clothes picked off the racks at Soul Train […]
Bookmark: Bruce Iglauer and Patrick A. Roberts, Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story
The Perfect Weekend Read If you’ve subscribed to, or even randomly leafed through, a couple of issues of Living Blues in the last few decades, undoubtedly you’ve perused […]
Bookmark: Randy Fox, Shake Your Hips: The Excello Records Story (BMG Books)
Although Excello Records was located in the “Record Center of the South”—Nashville—its success was largely dependent on the “Sound of the Swamp,” a sound incubated and perfected in “The Rice […]
