Issue Articles
Mac’s Tracks: A Guide to the Dr. John Discography
It’s pretty simple. The place to start with Dr. John is where he started—before he was Dr. John, before he was the Night Tripper, before he was known as a […]
The Missing Mix
Peer Munck is no Mark Sanford, but he does a good mea culpa. Munck, whose Chicago-based company MunckMix produces the JazzFest Live series of recordings from the New Orleans Jazz […]
Beth McKee, I’m That Way (bethmckee.com)
The ladies love Bobby Charles. McKee, ex-Evangeline and ex-Mid City, devotes this album entirely to his songs, and Shannon McNally has her own similar project on the way. Maybe Bobby’s […]
Booker T.
Getting ready for his Jazz Fest appearance with Drive-By Truckers as his backing band, Booker T. Jones is thinking back to his first time in New Orleans. It was in […]
Christine Balfa, Christine Balfa Plays the Triangle (Valcour)
On only the most moonless of nights deep in the Acadiana bayou, if on the unlikely chance you can get someone to point you in the right direction, if against […]
Doucet vs. Doucet?
Cheating! Well, the charge has come with a qualified “sort of,” so we’re not talking about steroids, term paper plagiarism or Florida politics. Unless someone is juicing the boudin, maybe. […]
Andre Williams and the New Orleans Hellhounds, Can You Deal With It? (Bloodshot)
On first blush—and there’s plenty of blush-raising material here—you’da thought that the man behind “Shake a Tail Feather,” “Bacon Fat” and “Greasy Chicken” deserved something a little more, you know, […]
Grammys: The Jethro Tull Effect
The first-ever Grammy Award for best Cajun/zydeco album brought out quite the field of nominees—not just the standard five, but thanks to a three-way tie for the last slot, a […]
