Fest Focus: Michael Murphy

Michael Ray and Kidd Jordan at Vision Festival, Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York, May 25 to May 31, 2004

Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure (Columbia/Legacy)

Look Out, Old Mac is Back: Dr. John Records A New Album In The Ninth Ward

In the mid-1960s Mac Rebennack a.k.a. Dr. John was banished from his beloved New Orleans by a medieval penal system mindset that incarcerated him in a Texas rehab center and […]

Fest Focus: The Nevilles

John “Papa” Gros, Day’s End (Independent)

Theresa Andersson Shines Through

On a cool spring night the Friday after Mardi Gras, Theresa Andersson looked out at the packed Mid-City Lanes dance floor and smiled broadly as she watched the revelers dancing […]

SXSW, The Vibe, March 19, 2004

Various Artists, Best of the Blues (Sanctuary)

Omar: 340 Pounds of Blues