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We set our soulful sights on the swamp boogie of Ernie Vincent and the Top
Notes, followed by some Brother Tyrone and the Mindbenders — all recorded
live at the 2009 Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival in mid-October.
The culinary crossroads continues its tasty travels by ...
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This month's recipe is a Savory Sweet Potato Stew, just in time to warm you up for the chilly winter months. It comes to us from Angelique Page of Chicago, IL, and was featured in the October issue of Louisiana Cookin' magazine.
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Brilliant jazz saxophonist Wessell "Warmdaddy" Anderson will appear tonight
(Thursday, November 12th at 8 and 10 p.m.) at Snug Harbor along with Victor
Adkins (p), Ed Perkins (s), Troy Davis (d) and Roland Guerin (b) in what
promises to be incredible shows.
On Wednesday, P...
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So, off the top of my head, in alphabetical order, here are the 30 jazz discs
that I have dug the most from this decade which is now drawing to a close...
Alegria by Wayne Shorter
Amarosa by Rosa Passos
Avatar by Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Beautiful Existence by Joe Morris
Back East...
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Tonight in its rawest first mix form, the Danny Barker Centennial Radio
Project goes on over the airwaves:
10 PM to Midnight on David Kunian's Kitchen Sink show
5 parts - 8 to 12 minutes each - featuring Barker's biography, the Fairview
Baptist Church Band, his writing, hi...
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Something magical:
Changes take place in my neighborhood in small increments these days. We
wake to another house starting repairs or to another being finished --- and
still a few lay dormant. The kudzu and politicians ruin one thing after
another, and without a glance, ...
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Tune in Wednesday night November 11th for our special guest D.J. Truth
Universal.
We have been wanting to get him on the show for a long time so you are not
wanting to miss it as Truth will be in during the 11:00 hour performing live.
Truth Universal performs at 508 Maison...
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We preview the upcoming Po-Boy Preservation Festival in the Oak Street
Corridor of New Orleans. Celebrating its third year, the festival features
food from 40 vendors this year, along with an Artist's Village and two
stages. We also feature one of the bands playing at the f...
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I'm sitting with 'OZ show host Jukebox Jack just before the live broadcast of
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. The WWOZ broadcast truck is to the left and
behind us is the WWOZ/SoCo stage under golden-hour sun and near-perfect
weather. An ideal closing Sunday for Voodoo.
...
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Singer-songwriter Andrew Duhon was sitting in the WWOZ hospitality tent
updating his Twitter account, and I chatted him up about his time at Voodoo
before he was golfcarted away to the LOA lounge for a VIP performance.
What's your experience been, being a musician from New ...
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