On Superbowl Sunday, we are tailgating with the original underdog, the
world's most under-rated blues singer, the Mayor of MacDougal Street: Dave
Van Ronk.
This week marks the 8th anniversary of his passing and, like every year, we
remember Dave with two hours of his music...
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Tune in Wednesday night February 10th at 10:00 p.m. as Ben Jaffe will be in the Studio spinning songs off the upcoming release as well as playing the original recording of the songs and I'm sure he'll have plenty of stories about producing this project!
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Tune in to the the February 9th New Orleans Music Show from 11 until 2 pm for
the annual Mardi Gras Indian Show. We will feature three hours of some of the
most unique music to come out of the Crescent City. Special guests will
include Mardi Gras Indians from several gangs ...
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Maria Neckam is a singer and songwriter from New York, who was born in
Austria and has also lived in the Netherlands. When Maria moved to New York
in 2005, she hit the music scene with great success. Since then she has been
working as one of the most innovative musicians on...
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This Tuesday on the Kitchen Sink, the special guest will be my old running
buddy, Sun Ra and Kool and the Gang trumpeter, head honcho of the Cosmic
Krewe, and Tone Scientist Extraordinaire
MICHAEL RAY!!!!!!!
He'll be talking about his new Cosmic Krewe record, the latest ne...
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In honor of the 101st anniversary of the birth of one Mr. Danny Barker -
musician, author, teacher, writer, griot, and just general MAN of New Orleans
music, the five part Danny Barker Radio Series will air on 90.7 FM New
Orleans, WWOZ, www.wwoz.org. This will happen on th...
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Tune in on the first Sunday of 2010 for Your Cousin Dimitri's annual show of
blues, folk and country music suitable for kids. Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie,
Elvis, Dylan... all singing for children, or music that could fool you into
thinking it's good for the young uns.
Turn o...
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The Tone Scientists of WWOZ will present The music of Sun Ra tonight on the
Kitchen Sink to celebrate the New Year. 10 PM - midnight. We'll travel the
Spaceways, orbit the heliocentric worlds, visit outer planes of there, and
school you on the other worlds they haven't to...
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The Top New Orleans CDs for the decade, listed alphabetically by first name.
I did not pick the best of the best.
Group - Year - Label - CD Title
Aaron Neville - 2003 - Verve - Nature Boy
Bobby Lounge - 2005 - self - I Remember The Night Your Trailer Burned Down
Chr...
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