Music
Best of the Beat Living Legend Award: Wardell Quezergue
From “Big Chief” and “It Ain’t My Fault” to “Deacon John’s Jump Blues,” from “Iko Iko” and “Trick Bag” to Creole Mass, Wardell Quezergue has been one of the key […]
Blues Hound: Anders in Tradition
People have been asking about Anders Osborne, whose band of several years is no longer working together regularly. Osborne has been producing and writing in 2003 after embarking on a […]
James Blood Ulmer: No Escape From the Blues
The September release of James Blood Ulmer’s No Escape From the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions is a milestone event in this centennial Year of the Blues. Though Ulmer is […]
Blowing in the Ninth Ward
New Orleans blues harmonica wizard Andy J. Forest has been doing a semi-regular Thursday night gig at d.b.a. and often plays Happy Hour sets at House of Blues, but the […]