Music
Walter “Wolfman” Washington: Funk is in the House (Bullseye Blues & Jazz)
It’s fitting that veteran New Orleans guitarist and singer Walter “Wolfman” Washington covers Ray Charles’ “Mary Ann” on his new CD Funk is in the House.
Aaron Neville: To Make Me Who I Am (A&M)
Top 40 songwriter-for-hire Diane Warren and contemporary R&B mega-producer Babyface penned “Say What’s In My Heart,” the lead-off track and single from Aaron Neville’s fourth solo album.
Lenny McDaniel: Tired Angels (Café au Lait Music)
New Orleans’ singer/songwriter/guitarist Lenny McDaniel seems to have found a happy medium. On his third effort Tired Angels, McDaniel strikes a balance between the lighthearted and memorable rock and soul of his debut Bad For Me, and the brooding and apocalyptic imagery that infused his second release Worth the Price.
Bobby Charles: Talking to New Orleans
Legendary songwriter Bobby Charles has the soul of a Native American. In the history of rock and roll, Charles is one of the genre’s great mysterious spirits, a man who feels guided by his art. He doesn’t play any musical instruments and can’t read music, yet he’s composed such songs as “See You Later Alligator,” “Walking To New Orleans,” “But I Do,” Ain’t Got No Home,” and “The Jealous Kind,” as if he was pulling them out of the wind.
Identity Crisis: Louisiana’s Guitar Gable Defends His Legacy
On 1956, Gabriel Perrodin, a native Bellevue, Louisiana, musician, traveled to Lake Charles to make a recording at Eddie Shuler’s Lake Charles studio. When the session didn’t come off as […]
Marva Wright, Bluesiana Mama (Aim)
This album from “The Blues Queen of New Orleans,” was recorded in Switzerland in 1994, and its domestic release is long overdue. Fans who’ve been hungering for the material Wright […]
Funky Four: The Neville Brothers Do Mardi Gras on Valence St.
“We’re the brothers/We’re the funky four/funk to the Valence/from the Calliope/like to sing and dance/in the neighborhood/we’re bad as lightning/and we’re loud as thunder/When you hear the Brothers/your body got […]
Mem Shannon Spends Some Time with Me & Andy J. Forest
When singer/songwriter/guitarist/taxi driver Mem Shannon released his debut CD A Cab Driver’s Blues in 1995, it marked the arrival of a major talent in contemporary blues. Yes, the inclusion of […]
Lazy Lester is All Over You
It’s been over two decades since Lazy Lester left Louisiana for Michigan, but the timeless harmonica-driven sound he forged for Excello Records in the mid-’50s and early ’60s still courses […]
Spencer Bohren, A Blues Jam Marathon & More
Where does the time go? Another year is coming to a close. Perhaps it’s a time for reflection, where we take a look at the last 364 days, and gaze […]
