November 1992
Features
- Leadbelly: His Life, His Legend
"Sweet Singer of the Swamplands Here To Do a Few Tunes Between Homicides" -New York Tribune, January 5, 1935, heralding the… - Mess O' Blues
The Delmark, Rounder and Black Top labels insure that fall will offer up a bountiful harvest of blues albums. Is… - A Different Shade of Blues
We call it “the blues”. It looks like the blues, and sometimes even sounds like the blues. But can the confluence… - Louisiana Folklife Festival
At the Louisiana Folklife Festival in Eunice November 13-15, zydeco and blues share center-stage with hand-stitched quilts, Italian stuffed artichokes and… - On A Binge
The cavernous wooden passageways of the weathered near the corner of Orleans and Broad are lonely on this Sunday night. On… - Postcards from the Edge: Willie Lockett & the Blues Krewe Survive and Prosper on Bourbon Street
You should have been there. After the convention, we headed for the French Quarter and wandered into Rhythms, this big patio…
Film & Video Bits
Food For Thought
Letters
Live Wire
Street
- Gregory D Issues The Real Deal; The Sandman Gets Signed
Local rappers-made-good Gregory D (aka Gregory Duvernay) and DJ Manny Fresh (Byron Thomas) have just returned home from a tour with…
