In a Blue Mood

Chris Smither More From the Levee Signature Sounds This new recording from the noted singer-songwriter Chris Smither brings forth ten new tr...

As I type this, I am watching a video of the late Allen Toussaint on Qwest TV. It is a Baloise Session in Basel, Switzerland and was his nex...

Talking Music 2: Blues and Roots Music Mavericks Holger Petersen Insomniac Press: London, Ontario 2016:428 pp Canadian Holger Peterson may...

“ Still on the Levee ” (Homunculus Music/Mighty Albert) is a double disc retrospective of Chris Smither’s 50 odd year career in new June 2...

A new release by The Blind Boys of Alabama, Down in New Orleans (Time-Life) has the legendary gospel singers in the Crescent City where t...

In April 2006 I wrote reviews on several post-Katrina benefit albums. This is the second review of those I am posting. Here is the first whi...

In April 2006 I wrote reviews on several post-Katrina benefit albums. I will be posting these in the next few days (not necessarily consecut...

The late Wardell Quezergue conducting the band backing singer Jean Knight at 2007 Ponderosa Stomp  - the New Orleans House of Blues. Phot...

Josh Charles was born in California, raised in Kansas City where he was trained in classical piano before the jazz bug hit him. After High s...

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue at 2009 Duke Ellington (now DC) Jazz Festival Since emerging nationally as a member of Lenny Kravitz’s...

I spent this past weekend at the Pocono Blues Festival and return home to learn via the net that two more performers of blues and rhythm mus...