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Various Artists, Rockin’ Bones (Rhino)
This box set from Rhino Records can be thought of as the counterpart to One Kiss Can Lead to Another, the girl group collection that came out last fall. […]
Various Artists, Swing Around The World (Putumayo)
This is certainly one of the odder Putumayo compilations, featuring 12 selections of broadly defined “swing” music from the planet Earth, including three tunes from Louisiana: the New Orleans Jazz […]
Shotgun House, Shotgun House (Independent)
New Orleans doesn’t have much of a Delta blues tradition. That would be musically and geographically anomalous, not to mention weird. But this largely acoustic duo, which has been creating […]
Matt Wake, Set Yourself Free (Black Moon Records)
Matt Wake: Set Yourself Free (Black Moon Records)
Ann Savoy: Cajun Music’s Cultural Ambassador
Ann Savoy’s Cajun odyssey has taken her from the Presbyterian coffeehouses of Virginia to the museums of Paris to her husband Marc’s ancestral home in Prairie Faiguitaique, eight miles east […]
Various Artists, Putumayo Presents Colombia (Putumayo)
Various Artists: Putumayo Presents Colombia (Putumayo)
Tarbox Ramblers, Tarbox Ramblers (Rounder)
Tarbox Ramblers
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 9
In late 1997, the Offbeat staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, Individually, represented influential and/or […]
1997: CD Year in Review
Once again it’s time for our panel of experts to gather and give out the grades to the latest batch of Louisiana releases. 1997 marked a very good year for […]
