Music
Maria Muldaur, Steady Love (Stony Plain Records)
Maria Muldaur intuitively knows what a song needs to suit her vocal style. From “I’m a Woman” and the Memphis Jug Band’s “Garden of Joy” in the folk revival days […]
The Lost Bayou Ramblers’ Bastille Day
The Lost Bayou Ramblers will perform with former Violent Femmes front man Gordon Gano at the Voodoo Experience on Saturday, October 29, and the night before they’ll throw a single […]
Donald Harrison, Ron Carter and Billy Cobham, This Is Jazz: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note Records)
[Updated] The collaboration between alto saxophonist Donald Harrison, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Billy Cobham blossomed into something more during a 2002 tour featuring Harrison, Carter, and Cobham with the […]
Rosie Ledet, Come Get Some (JSP Records)
Come Get Some what? It’s a Rosie Ledet CD, so what’d’ya think? Sex, of course. Or, more precisely, decidedly female zydeco soul filled with double entendres and lots of hip-shaking […]
Lost Bayou Ramblers: Rock en Français
When Louis Michot and the Lost Bayou Ramblers set up shop to record their upcoming release, Mammoth Waltz, at Dockside Studios, he did what any good bandleader would naturally do: […]
The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock and Roll by Preston Lauterbach (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Unlike the vast majority of popular music historians today, first-time book author Preston Lauterbach admirably resists the temptations of “fan club worship”—complexly detailed biographies of popular entertainers— and “the new […]
Dr. Michael White, Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Vol. 1 (Basin Street Records)
The surprises on Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Vol. 1 begin with the very first notes, a repeating figure on the balafon—the ancient West African ancestor of the xylophone—echoed in […]
Jesse Legé, Joel Savoy and the Cajun Country Revival, The Right Combination (Valcour Records)
Joel Savoy has become a central figure in the Acadian Uprising, a second wave of young revivalists coming to the forefront of Cajun music culture in the first decade of […]
Charles Lloyd, Sangam (ECM)
Charles Lloyd earned his stripes way back in 1950s Memphis playing horns in local R&B aggregations, back in the days of the blues-stoked bar-walkers and those frenzy-inspired, high-pitched squealers. He […]
