In a Blue Mood

One of my favorite blue shouters was Smiley Lewis. The New Orleans singer and guitarist had many superb recordings, but alas some of his rec...

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

Back in the early 1990s, EMI issued a series of blues reissues that made some important and vintage blues available for blues listeners. I...

I briefly blogged about Rick Coleman’s biography of Fats Domino back in May, 2006 which I would subsequently review in Jazz & Blues Rep...

Earl King was a significant member of the New Orleans music scene from the 1950s until his death in 2003. Born Earl Silas Johnson IV in 1934...

Just a heads up that issue 30 of the genre-spanning hip hop journal, waxpoetics is out and it is titled The Rock Issue . The two covers ar...

2007 Ponderosa Stomp-272 Originally uploaded by NoVARon Finally did an initial write-up of this year's Ponderosa Stomp (The Sixth ...

Well I will be away for a few days as I am going to New Orleans for the annual Jazz & Heritage Festival (the 38th I believe), but as far...