August 1995
BackTalk
- Doc Cheatham
New Orleans has finally "adopted" Doc Cheatham, the 90-year-old trumpeter who is a Nashville native and New York resident. He, in…
Bluesworthy
- 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…
Cover Story
- Frankie Ford: Ooh-Wee Baby!
Someone should tell Frankie Ford he doesn’t need to work this hard. On a Sunday evening in July, Ford’s big black…
Crescent City Bounce
- Our Columnist Visits the White Buffalo; New Eddie Bo, Davell Crawford Discs
Please forgive me, dear readers, for missing my appointment with you in these pages last month, but your correspondent had the…
Dirty Rice
- Festival Season Hits High Gear; The Founding of Action Cadienne; Wayne Toups' New Disc
After a brief mid-summer pause, Acadiana's extensive festival season is upon us once again. Cool weather is still a distant dream,…
Dis 'n' Dat
- Tipitina's on the Block but Still Open; Cutting Edge Conference to Open August 30th
A front-page story In the Times-Picayune about Tipitina's being up for sale triggered all manner of speculation about the club's Immediate…
Eye Music
- Dan Piersol's New Orleans Gestalt and Angel Binnie's Body Art
A Saturday night in June, unusually cool for the Crescent City, unusually dry, unusually breezy. I'm standing in Still-Zinsel gallery on…
Fat City
- Rating the Rabbit and Fish at Gabrielle's and the Pasta Bar at Semolina's
Beans, stars, golden spoons. Every restaurant critic uses some rating scheme, presumably so readers-in-a-hurry don't have to wade all the way…
Features
- Weedeater
"Were you anti-laser or pro-laser?" Jason Portera asks me over a cocktail in the non-revolving bar high atop the Landmark Hotel… - Burnversion
On a Saturday night at the Mermaid Lounge last month, Burnversion are conducting a musical exorcism. James Marler's tortured whine is… - The Royal Pendletons
“One thing that really bothers me that I always hear in these, quote, histories of rock & roll is that from… - White Buffalo Day
Feathers and sequins glisten in the high noon heat. Tambourines shake and drums roll, calling out to. the spirits at Congo…
Feedback
- New Recordings by Nut, Of Human Bondage; the Faubourg Center Hosts Underground Music
Nut's demo cassette does the boys proud. With wierdo keyboard effects high in the mix, they sound less like a thrash…
Film & Video Bits
- Summer Viewing: The Bridges of Madison County, Braveheart and Smoke
Clint Eastwood has defied the conventional wisdom and actually made a better movie (than the book) of the mega-best-seller The Bridges…
Live Wire
- Bad Brains, Tipitina's, July 17, 1995
The recently-regrouped Bad Brains, with a new album and an opening gig for the Beastie Boys in their recent past, were…
Obituaries
- Percy Humphrey (1905-1995)
He was the last of the legendary Humphrey Brothers, the unflappable pair who stared into the faces of the hundreds of…
Plugged In
- Pondering the Future of Tipitina's and the Merits of New Music from New Orleans; the Radiators' and Neville Brothers' Home Pages
The recent media coverage of Tipitina's being put up for sale sparked a huge amount of discussion on the Internet. A…
Street
- It's Drama Time for Black Menace; Lil' Prede Boy Hopes to Go from Rags to Riches
Big Boy Records, the record company that brought us Gslimm, Mystikal, and Partners-N-Crime will drop another big one this month with…
Strictly Jazz
- City Trumpets New Louis Armstrong Stamp; Essence Fest in Review
The trumpeting to herald the Louis Armstrong stamp (available on September 1) and celebrate this jazz centennial era will kick off…
Reviews
- 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… - UNLV, Mac, Melph, Calio (Cash Money)
There are no real surprises on UNLV's third and strongest release, Mac, Melph, Calio. UNLV was one of New Orleans' first… - Ruthless Juveniles, Hard As the F**k, Pt. II (MoBo Joe)
The tracks on Ruthless Juveniles' second release show a definite improvement over those on the group's first, Hard as the F**k.… - Todd Westbrook, By the Quarter Moon's Light (Westco)
Todd Westbrook's name is the only one on the cover of By the Quarter Moon's Light, the Baton Rouge singer's second… - Olympia Brass Band, New Orleans Jazz Preservation (Mardi Gras)
No one should ever mistake the Olympia Brass Band for the ReBirth or Soul Rebels brass bands. Besides obvious differences in… - Raymond Anthony Myles, A Taste of Heaven (Honey Darling)
Very few studio recordings do justice to the spirit and communal glory of live gospel. A Taste of Heaven resolves this… - Chris Thomas, 21st Century Blues…From Da 'Hood (Private Music)
I always did like rap for its poetry, its edge, its rhythm, its groove. But as a lover of the sound… - Chris Isaak, Forever Blue (Sire)
In this album's first song, "Baby Did a Bad Thing," the bad thing Chris Isaak's baby has done to him is… - Bob Marley and the Wailers, Natural Mystic (Tuff Gong)
When Bob Marley's death got people started on the task of evaluating the ultimate importance of his music, few thought of…
