Issue Articles
The Name Game
There are huge chunks of New Orleans’ musical past that seem destined to remain shrouded in mystery, yet none has proven more strangely elusive than its once-fertile, now-forgotten hillbilly music […]
Reigning Sound, Live At Maxwell’s (Telstar)
In a mere five years, Memphis’s aptly-named Reigning Sound have managed to cut some of the finest rock ‘n’ roll albums in recent history. The brainchild of former Oblivion and […]
Wild Jimmy Spruill, Scratch ‘n’ Twist (Night Train)
If you’ve never heard of Wild Jimmy Spruill, you’re not alone. But if you’ve ever grooved to the magnificently churning guitar solos on Dave “Baby” Cortez’s “The Happy Organ” or […]
Various Artists, The !!!Beat; Volumes 1-6 (Bear Family Records DVD)
It lasted for only 26 episodes but it was very possibly the hippest show to ever grace a television screen. It’s been unavailable for viewing since the mid-’60s yet one […]
Island on the Bayou
Troy Shondell If you take Highway 90 (or “Route 90” as Clarence “Bon Ton” Garlow would have it) out past Mosca’s Restaurant to the settlement of Des Allemands you’ll see […]
Detroit Creole
The evening of Saturday, July 15, will be a milestone for filmmaker Dan Rose. On that night at One Eyed Jacks, he’ll screen Wayne County Ramblin’, the film that he’s […]
The Plowboys and the Bush Hogs
The Bush Hogs are such an unbelievably great band that it’s absolutely heartbreaking that A) They don’t play more often than they do and B) That they don’t have a […]
