Music
The Replacements, All for Nothing (Reprise)
In the 1980s, when Lionel Richie, Phil Collins, Madonna and Huey Lewis ruled pop music, the Replacements were the greatest rock and roll band in the world. They were too […]
Jacky Terrasson & Cassandra Wilson, Rendezvous (Blue Note)
This record was a winner from conception. Take Terrasson, the young Parisian import who, since winning the Thelonious Monk competition in ’93, has dazzled as one of the most fluid, […]
Marcus Roberts, Blues for the New Millenium (Columbia)
They told us the Gulf of Mexico was out of oil. Then they drilled deeper and found new, rich deposits. With this recording, young pianist/jazz composer Marcus Roberts shows us […]
Coteau, Highly Seasoned Cajun Music (Rounder)
To most Cajun-music fans under 30, the seminal avant-trad combo Coteau is as much a rumor as a legend. Despite blazing the trail for the likes of BeauSoleil and Mamou, […]
Various Artists, Louisiana Blues (Arhoolie)
This 48-minute, 12-song, five-artist showcase for Louisiana’s finest bluesmen first appeared in 1970, and despite its absence from the standard classic-blues discographies compiled in the past 27 years, it’s as […]
Joe Falcon, Cajun Music Pioneer: Live in Scott, LA, 1963 (Arhoolie Records)
If by some odd chance you’re enough of a Cajun-music fan to have an original, 29-year-old copy of this album on vinyl, you’ll still want to pick up this newly […]
Mighty Joe Young, Mighty Man (Blind Pig)
If you’ll forgive the obscure reference, everything from the bass line to the cadence to the tone of this album’s powerhouse opening track – “Starvation” – echoes “Trouble,” a smoldering […]
Vin Bruce, Beau Bayou L’Ours (Lanor)
You want songs in 3/4 time? How about seven of them out of a possible dozen? That’s how many country waltzes show up on this French-language country album, and instead […]
All That, Eponymous Debut (Independent)
Given the band’s loose arrangement, All That’s debut release appropriately sounds more like a jam session of some of New Orleans hottest funk and brass band players than an overly-polished […]
Nocentelli, Live in San Francisco (DJM)
Meters fans who miss the slinky guitar of original member Leo Nocentelli – replaced in the funky Meters by Brian Stoltz in early 1994 – no longer need to wait […]
