Ry Cooder, Music by Ry Cooder (Warner Brothers)

Bluesfest Season Is Here: Pack Your Bags for Biloxi, Greenville, Helena and Baton Rouge

Larry Garner, You Need to Live A Little (Verve)

Baton Rouge blues six-stringer Larry Gamer has fulfilled a mountain of promise with You Need To Live A Little, his first national release. While some fans of Garner’s earlier work […]

Larry Garner Becomes Full-Time Bluesman; The Continuing Adventures of “Smokey” Logg

At the beginning of 1995, Baton Rouge resident Larry Garner was strictly a part-time .. blues man. The 56-year-old family man had a secure job at a chemical plant, with […]

Van Morrison, Days Like This (Polydor)

Jerry Lee Lewis, Young Blood (Sire)

OffBeat’s Official Blues Column Debuts With Notes On Blues Radio and A Blues Hangover

Merritt Doggins and the Bloodhounds, Blues Old and New (Shortstack)

Timothea, Goin’ Home to Mama (Blue Soul)

Crescent City Blues Club Newsletter June 1995