Blogs
Bob on Bob
In the new issue, I reviewed Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart, which I think has received a lot of cheap negative reviews based on the simple premise that it’s […]
Reading’s Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Buckwheat Zydeco’s Lay Your Burden Down has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Cajun/Zydeco Album category, which adds credence to my belief that Grammy voters are going on […]
Grammy Has a Crazy Stick
After a few years when the Grammys seemed at least partially tethered to planet Earth, they returned to form this year, seeming more like a crotchety old man waving his […]
Lolet Meets Drew Brees
Damn, I love stuff like this…got this from Lolet Boutté, who just moved back from Houston–after being there for four years, post-Katrina. She’s got a great place in the Musicians’ […]
Mama Maseca
It wasn’t until I made tamales for my friend Golden two years ago that I realized that I had no idea what I was doing. It became clear that I […]
No Mayor Mayfield
Yesterday the Associated Press reported that trumpeter Irvin Mayfield has decided not to run for mayor of New Orleans. When we first reported that he was going to run, we […]
Almost Perfect
Last night, the Superdome was the loudest I can remember for a prolonged period of time (nothing will ever seem as loud as the Dome was when Steve Gleason blocked […]
Spencer Wins!
Congratulations to Spencer Bohren. He recently won the International Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Education. The award will be presented in Memphis in January during the International […]
Black Monday
Countdown to kickoff – 10 hours, 45 minutes at the time of writing. Saints fans marked tonight’s game against the Patriots on their schedules at the beginning of the season, […]
Derrick Tabb – Hero?
[Note: Update in Comments] Did anybody see all of CNN’s Heroes program last night? Was a winner chosen? I see today online that Derrick Tabb is in the Top 10 […]
