September 1995
BackTalk
Cover Story
- Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys: Creating Within The Tradition
BANNED FROM COMPETITION He had sung French songs at three, and played his first accordion riff at seven. Everything was…
Crescent City Bounce
Features
- Festivals Acadiens Preview
The premiere Cajun music event takes over Lafayette Sept. 16-17 Sometimes the dance floor is consumed in a rolling dustcloud,… - Zydeco Fest Preview
It was three months before Labor Day in the 1982, and not a few people around Plaisance had decided that Wilbert…
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- Scott Black, Scott Black's Hot Horns (Good Time Jazz)
- Ry Cooder, Music by Ry Cooder (Warner Brothers)
- Kip Hanrahan, All Roads Are Made of the Flesh (American Clave)
- The Swingin' Haymakers, For Rent (Circle)
- G. Love and Special Sauce, Coast to Coast Motel (Okeh/Epic)
- The Roy Hargrove-Christian McBride-Stephen Scott Trio, Parker's Mood (Verve)
- Eddie Allen, Eddie Allen R&B (Enja)
- Bellamy Brothers, Sons of Beaches (Intersound)
- Ian Moore, Modernday Folklore (Capricorn)