Oak Street, New Orleans, Sunday Afternoon on Mardi Gras weekend
Although New Orleans is my favorite city, and it was Mardi Gras weekend, we were in town primarily for a Duwayne Burnside concert that I …
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Fine Dining and Blues at Leland’s Vince’s Restaurant
R, L, Boyce’s second show of the night was an hour south of Clarksdale in Leland, Mississippi, a rough Delta town just outside of Greenville. …
Sean “Bad” Apple & R. L. Boyce at The Bin at Shacksdale Motel
It’s not at all unusual for Sean “Bad” Apple and R. L. Boyce to perform in Clarksdale, but on the last Saturday in February, they …
R. L. Boyce Brings The Hill Country To New Orleans
It was perhaps a strange night for Hill Country blues in New Orleans. It was raining heavily. Mardi Gras parades had led to road closures …
Breeze Cayolle and The Mighty Souls Brass Band at Lafayette’s
Lafayette’s Music Room is a reincarnation of one of Memphis’ best-beloved music venues of the 1970’s, but the latter-day version has something of a New …
Leo “Bud” Welch and Friends at Red’s in Clarksdale
After the screening of the last film of this year’s Clarksdale Film Festival (which was appropriately enough a documentary about Leo “Bud” Welch), my girlfriend …
Great Music Documentaries and Live Music at the Clarksdale Film Festival
The annual Clarksdale Film Festival is a rather unusual film festival. For one thing it is held in the Mississippi Delta city of Clarksdale, which …
Endings and Beginnings With Duwayne Burnside at The Shelter on Van Buren
Duwayne Burnside had played The Shelter on Van Buren in Oxford, Mississippi earlier in the fall, but I had not been able to attend, so …
R. L. Boyce & Lightnin Malcolm Live at Antone’s
When a young Lebanese man from Port Arthur, Texas named Clifford Antone got kicked out (or perhaps dropped out, depending on who you ask) of …