In our continuing chronological look at the music of New Orleans and
Louisiana, Tom Morgan and his Tuesday New Orleans Music Show presents the
music of 1952. From Louis Armstrong's recordings in Scandanavia, Sidney
Bechet's in Paris and Louis Prima's in New York to Sharkey ...
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Innovative and acclaimed jazz guitarist Will Bernard will stop by the studio
to talk about what he is working on these days. He will be performing
Thursday night at d.b.a. with Brian Coogan and Simon Lott --- who may also be
in the studio.
Originally from Berkeley, Califo...
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I had a show of friendship songs pretty well planned before tonight.
Then Martha Craven called and told me her husband and my close friend Frank
Martorana only had a couple more days to live. I hope Frank will like this
tribute to friendship.
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Everyone in New Orleans likes the taste of sweet music, and next month the
Honey Island Swamp Band will be ready and willing to treat the Crescent
City's famously sweet musical tooth with the upcoming release of their new
album, titled - no doubt prophetically - Good To You...
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While it may be a pointless notion to try and debate I definitely heard that
question asked during her performance last night with Gordon Grdina and
Kenton Loewen upstairs at the Blue Nile. The impromptu trio performed a show
that proved to be everything I could hope for f...
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Mattanja Joy Bradley, the lead singer, and "Jimmy the Lounge", the lead
guitarist, of Bradley's Circus will join us at the crossroad on Wed to show
how they are doing the blues in Holland. Their website is bradleyscircus.com.
Listen for them in the 3 o'clock hour on Wednesd...
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Headed downtown for the last day of the South by Southwest Music Conference &
Festival.
The last official day is Sunday with a few night time shows but for most
people Saturday is the last day of the festival.
With a cold front that moved in overnight the temperature has d...
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We'll be spending much of the show playing music from New Orleans and
Louisiana artists in 1951. Also Matt Perrine is going to stop by around 11:30
to share two songs from his upcoming Threadhead Records release, Bayou Road
Suite,, due out on April 8th. Saxophonist Jimmy Ca...
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Yet another day full of music and walking.
As SXSW has grown it has spread out virtually all over town, making for some
long walks (unless you catch the bike cabs) from venue to venue. The day
played out much like yesterday, bouncing around to some of the day parties,
the ...
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Alex Chilton died in New Orleans a few days ago. He was from Memphis, which
spreads all the way down to New Orleans for musicians. And we all know that
New Orleans is a jealous mistress. So New Orleans it was for LX.
He would have been playing at South by Southwest in Austi...
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