Issue Articles
Lollipoppin’ with Little Bob
Like so many of the world’s greatest albums, it stayed in print just long enough to become a cult classic. Forever enshrined on the jukeboxes at both the Circle Bar […]
Midnight Streetcar Rolls
The third annual TapeOpCon, which took place during the last weekend of May at the Fairmont Hotel and Orpheum Theater, would have been a smashing success if only for five […]
Cosimo Matassa: The King of New Orleans Recording Engineers
If there is one man who singularly charted the course for New Orleans’ contribution to the world of popular music, that man is Cosimo Matassa. Modest almost to a fault, […]
BackTalk: Fats Domino (Interview)
If the late New Orleans R&B singer Ernie K-Doe is remembered for anything besides his music, it’s without a doubt his repartee. “I’m not sure,” K-Doe was fond of saying, […]
Allen Collay’s “Last Chance”
There are certain local records—Roland Stone’s “Just A Moment,” Milson Luce’s “Don’t Break Your Promise To Me,” the Jokers’ “There’s Got To Be A Girl,”—that in a justice-filled world would […]
