Breaking Bread with R&B Legends

Everybody knows Fats Domino, Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, Wynton and Branford Marsalis  enjoy major-label recording contracts and tour the world as musical ambassadors of the sound of New Orleans, […]

Spiritualettes, Gospel Soul Children CDs; The Paulin Brothers; and Blue Lu

Looking Back on the Music of Mardi Gras While Looking Ahead to Jazz Fest

New Discs from Eddie Bo, Chuck Carbo, Ernie K-Doe, Ironing Board Sam; Treme Heats Up for Carnival

BackTalk: Ernie K-Doe

Unlike so many knowledgeable New Orleans natives, this writer never had the pleasure of seeing Ernie K-Doe in his prime, but in the early ’60swhen he was cutting a succession […]

Our Writers Waxes Nostalgic About the Musical Blessings He Encountered in 1995

Caught Up in the Holiday Spirit, Our Columnist Gives Thanks for the Music

New Music from Treme Brass Band, Mem Shannon, Marva Wright and a Trio of Singers

Notes on the Wolfman, Ernie K-Doe, Tommy Ridgley and Roy Brown

Our Columnist Visits the White Buffalo; New Eddie Bo, Davell Crawford Discs

Please forgive me, dear readers, for missing my appointment with you in these pages last month, but your correspondent had the pleasure of traveling north to Detroit and Chicago to […]