The exact connection is murky though I have a sense of it. On Sunday evening I meandered over to Peterson Dumesnil to hear a duo perform from the porch to a smattering of wine drinking folks. As I told some good friends I ran into, “When I read ‘New Orleans inspired,’ I was like a […]
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So, yeah, the heat is hot, humiture is on the rise. It’s time for my favorite summer album on the box, thirty five minutes of respite from the heat and wackomundoness about in the world. And you know a hit of solid New Orleans vibe. Allen Toussaint’s Southern Nights is one of my very favorite […]
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I am going through serious withdrawal. JazzFest is just weeks away. Absent some confluence of miracles, I won’t be there for the second year in a row. After a thirty five year run. The realities of being firmly into my octogenarianism are manifest. As much as it pains, prudence must prevail. But it’s ever on […]
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The lede shall not be buried. The sequel to “This is Spinal Tap” is not as good as the original. It happens. There’s only one “Godfather 2.” Only one “Astral Weeks.” Only one “Guernica.” That settled, next question: Should there have been a sequel? After all, the original is a masterwork. It essentially invented the […]
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