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It was just 30 days after Hurricane Katrina marauded across New Orleans when artist Jeffrey Holmes and his then-wife Andrea ...
The musical options in New Orleans for the last week of June include a blues legend and the pairing of a pianist and a ...
Learn a bluesy boogie shuffle piano groove in the New Orleans style. In this lesson, I use "Sweet Home Chicago" to break down ...
The blues put this town on the tourism map, but Clarksdale has leaned into its musical heritage in recent decades. Here’s how ...
Louisiana-based roots rocker Tyron Benoit is set to release his latest album Mid-City on September 26 with a single coming next month.
Best known for being a powerhouse singer, a hard-boogie-ing pianist and a passionate songwriter, Kelley Hunt has one extra ...
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The redfish blues
Louisiana’s coastline is a river delta, formed by the Mississippi over millennia as its current slowed and relinquished its mud into a calm and sheltered gulf. In the back-and-forth contest ...
In an exclusive interview with American Songwriter, C.C. Adcock, the producer of The Rolling Stones’ new Clifton Chenier tribute cover, says the track was the “coolest thing I’ve ever … been involved ...
Craft Recordings and Bluesville Records have teamed up with Acoustic Sounds to reissue two landmark blues titles, each ...
LVVRS frontman River Gibson wrote the band’s new single, “The Bed,” in a single sitting—an emotionally raw track born from ...
Jones was born in New Orleans proper but grew up on the Westbank, a 20-minute drive across the river from downtown. She credits the city’s style for the way she designs.