For your weekend viewing pleasure, check out this four-song set by John Lee Hooker (1917-2001) and Ry Cooder at the "All Our Colors" benefit, Shoreline Ampitheater, Mountain View CA, 10/10/1992 The set list: Intro  - Lonely Man 05:35 - It Serves Me Right To Suffer 13:33 -... Read more

In the summer of 1989, Van Morrison was travelling in Greece with a film crew, making the documentary One Irish Rover. One sunny day, he was joined in Athens by Bob Dylan, who'd just ended a European tour. They brought their acoustic guitars to the place in Athens where the... Read more

The Original Pinettes Brass Band won the 2013 Red Bull Street Kings competition. Part of the prize: studio time and tutoring from people like Mannie Fresh and Trombone Shorty, both of whom appear in this version of "Ain't No City" cut in the Red Bull Studio.     Read more

WWOZ Private Collections at Siberia featuring Soul Sister Sunday, June 22, 2014 Siberia - 2227 St. Claude Ave., NOLA 6-9pm * FREE Facebook event link Each month, WWOZ and Euclid Records present "Private Collections," a Sunday evening happy hour where different WWOZ Djs ... Read more

Born in the Mississippi Delta near Clarksdale, blues legend Eddie James "Son" House (1902-1988) spent a good deal of his childhood in Louisiana, eventually in Algiers/New Orleans, but first near Tallulah in Madison Parish. His brief introduction to "Preaching the Blues" in ... Read more

On this week's show we welcome Dayna Kurtz to the city, in her new and arguably ancestral home, while we enjoy a full hour of music recorded live at Chickie Wah Wah on Canal Street featuring guitarist Robert Mache. We also meet up with Dayna over a bottle of red wine to tal... Read more

If you didn't get enough Zydeco at the last weekend's Lousiana Cajun & Zyedo festival in Armstrong Park, check out this video. Published last week by Storyville Records, it's a 1984 live recording at the Maple Leaf:"The Louisiana Two Step" by Rockin' Dopsie (1932 - 1993) an... Read more

A few months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, Ruby Dee came to Congo Square to tell us motley returnees that she understood Congo Square was some of the most sacred ground in America.  She was also gracious enough to extend Congo Square to all of New Orleans. ... Read more