Crescent City Gold-en Boys

They say you can never go back, and were it not for the determination and persistence of one local woman, a group of veteran New Orleans rock & roll session […]

Cyril Neville: The Fire Inside

“I’m speaking for Cyril Neville-I’m not speaking for the Neville Brothers.”   That disclaimer, offered at the start of a recent conversation, is apropos. At 45, Cyril is the youngest […]

French Quarter Fest Kicks Off A Big Month; Nevilles, Evangeline Restructure Line-Ups

Examining Lump

Lump guitarist and vocalist Lou Thevenot readily admits that he often writes lyrics that are “kind of nonsense.” So it was easy for an onlooker at a recent gig to […]

Dash Rip Rock, Tiger Town (Doctor Dream)

subdudes Reincarnate

It is the Wednesday before Mardi Gras Day, and spirits and persons from the subdudes’ past mingle freely with those of the present and future on and around the Tipitina’s […]

Louisiana Invades Texas for SXSW; James Hall Devoured in Feeding Frenzy

The Funky Meters, Tipitina’s, February 5, 1994

Aerosmith, House of Blues, February 8, 1994, UNO Lakefront Arena, February 9, 1994

Another Artist Scores with Song on Evangeline Album; Nocentelli Quits Meters

If you don’t think that luck and timing count for as much as anything in the music business, talk to the members of Evangeline. “She’s A Wild One,” a song […]