This week’s program is a mixture of love songs and sweets, as we prepare for Valentine’s Day.  Throughout the hour, we’ll spend our time enjoying cool desserts with a little cake on the side.  Music of the hour includes songs by Irma Thomas, Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, the... 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

On this week’s program, we enjoy the sounds of Eric Lindell and Sunliners, recorded live in the New Orleans Botanical Gardens in City Park.  As a tireless discoverer of musical gems, Eric draws upon a vast array of American musical monuments, from the soulful majesty of The... Read more

This week we collide new and old music, all locally recorded, performed by artists Theresa Andersson, Treme Brass Band, The Dynamites, and more. In addition to an hour of eclectic live music, we visit Libra Lagrone at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art to talk about the focus... Read more

This week, we waste no time celebrating the beginning of Carnival and its many traditions. We learn about its origins as we try two types of King Cakes from Croissant D’or. Aside from the food, we prepare with some Mardi Gras classics performed by Kermit Ruffins, James Rive... Read more

This week, we welcome in the New Year with a visit to the Contemporary Arts Center for some live music performed by the Southern troubadour Tab Benoit and his Swampland Jam. We also dig into some Falsomagro, an Italian dish of rolled meat stuffed with assortment of deliciousne... Read more

The great Walter 'Wolfman' Washington just celebrated his 70th Birthday, so we're jumping in the car with him for an hour of not just music but also a road trip to a local clothing store. Tune in as we drive and talk about where he got his style, shoes, and his music mentor... Read more

This program requires an appetite, as we sample four different Po-Boys at Mahony’s with Chef Jason Sanders.  We start off with the Peacemaker, a sandwich with fried oysters, bacon and cheese and work our way through to the alligator sausage po-boy with a smokey tomato musta... Read more

This weeks program features two sets of Luther Kent and Trick Bag, along with an interview with Luther about everything from his early years playing under the name Duke Royal to his discovery of the late Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland while walking past a jukebox at a club on Washingto... Read more

This week’s program brings you the blues, inflections of West Africa, as well as a moment of Gospel, accompanied with music from Marcia Ball, Toubab Krewe, the Johnny Vidacovich Trio, the late Tommy Ridgely and more. All these voices come together as we prepare for a visit to ... Read more