Destination Birmingham

There was a time when Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama was a symbol of all that was wrong with the American South. In the early 1960s, television reports of […]

Remembering Zydeco Patriarch Delton Broussard; New Music from Riley, Daigrepont

Dr. John, Television (MCA/GRP)

The Cajun and Zydeco Must-Sees of Jazz Fest; Zydeco “Battles” Staged in New Orleans

The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars, The New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars (Stretchy)

Lump, Sloppy Atrocities (Airline 61)

Fest Focus: Sonny Landreth

Sometime before dawn, a tugboat, regularly moves its freight up the darkened Vermilion River, south of Lafayette, inching through black woods and inky water. Then a lone red light is […]

Fest Focus: Randy Newman

Don’t remember much about my baby days But I been told We used to live on Willow in the Garden District Next to the Sugar Bowl – Randy Newman, “New […]

Fest Focus: Governor Jimmie Davis

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine … “   The song’s been covered by Lawrence Welk and Cowboy Mouth, Mitch Miller and Mitch Ryder, Gene Autry, Bing Crosby, Willie […]

Louisiana Musical Landmarks

At Jazz Fest, music is always as close as the nearest stage. But outside the Fair Grounds, Louisiana also has its more hidden attractions — our own musical blue highways. […]