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Papa Grows Funk history explored
Do U Want It?
Five Questions With Singer-Songwriter Jake Bugg
In early 2012, then eighteen-year-old Jake Bugg released his first United Kingdom hit, the folky, buoyant “Lightning Bolt.”
Seasonal Affective Disorder
A Louisiana Christmas with Loose Cattle
Sam Perez/Piscobar
(at the Catahoula Hotel)
George Clinton Talks Back
From doo-wop to the P-Funk Mothership, George Clinton has led his funky voyage through the musical universe and beyond.
Charles Neville 1938-2018
Saxophonist Charles Neville—forever known to fans as “Charlie, the horn man”—was the secret ingredient in the Neville Brothers’ mix, the brother whose jazz instincts took them to another level. Neville, who died last month of pancreatic cancer at age 79, was also a link to the fabled days of the Dew Drop Inn, where he began performing in the ’50s.
Traversing The Map
The Soul Rebels trombonist Corey “Passport P” Peyton raps with global ambition.
300 Songs For 300 Years
Keyboardists
Tony Hall Talks Back
Bassist, guitarist, drummer, singer and songwriter Tony Hall’s myriad accomplishments include co-founding Dumpstaphunk. The deep-grooving funk-jazz-soul quintet came together in 2003 for an Ivan Neville appearance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Margot Denman/N7
“I made a cocktail for Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington because when I first moved to New Orleans I got a job at Boucherie uptown and one of my regulars was Hank Staples of the Maple Leaf—such a sweet man. He’d come to the bar and have dinner and write his name on a paper napkin and we’d call them ‘hankies’ [laughs].
Five Questions With Nathan Williams Of Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
Five Questions With Nathan Williams Of Nathan & The Zydeco Cha Chas
Five Questions With Meschiya Lake On Her Move To Cork, Ireland
Five Questions With Meschiya Lake On Her Move To Cork, Ireland
D.L. Menard (1932 – 2017)
D.L. Menard (1932 – 2017)
Gold Standard
Saffron NOLA brings upscale Indian cuisine to Magazine Street.
A View From Lubbock
The poetic songwriting of alt-country pioneer Joe Ely.
Derek Trucks talks back
Derek Trucks talks back
Send Him A Friend
Anders Osborne’s road to sobriety.
Lyrical Longevity
Partners-N-Crime: 25 years of bouncing beyond expectations.
Not A Reunion, A Revival
Squirrel Nut Zippers’ love letter to New Orleans.
Taking Care Of New Orleans R&B
Al “Lil’ Fats” Jackson pays tribute to Fats Domino.
From Underdog To Lone Wolf At Large
Alfred Banks at the forefront.
The Beat Goes On
Louie Fontaine brings his music and his machine to the former Handsome Willy’s.
With Bells On
Meschiya Lake remembers Sweet Emma Barrett.
Jazz Foundations
Don Vappie brings to life the music of early New Orleans jazz pioneer Joe “King” Oliver.
Calas Tout Chaud!
Loretta Harrison of Loretta’s Authentic Pralines brings back rice calas at Jazz Fest.
“Lucky” Lee Hendler
“I got the nickname when I was working with Lucky Peterson, a blues artist that I started touring with in my twenties, when I went around the Chitlin’ Circuit with a lot of blues artists.
Royce Osborn (1958 - 2017)
“This is the story of New Orleans’ black Mardi Gras,” says filmmaker Royce Osborn at the beginning of his award-winning 2003 documentary, All on a Mardi Gras Day.
A Pop Masterpiece
For Evie Sands, making music is like breathing.
Celebratory Music
Mario Abney reaches on a human and intellectual level
They Sashay By...
From Bourbon Street to Esplanade—LeRoux is back.