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What do you hear when he plays his clarinet?Can you hear the bayou? The river? The French Quarter? People sitting on their stoops waiting for someone to…

It’s easy to tease out the artists who’ve inspired A.J. Croce’s singing over the years — Ray Charles, Paul McCartney*, Buddy Holly, even Ray Davies of The…

Rickie Lee Jones says she moved to New Orleans, in part, because she wanted to be around people. In Los Angeles, she was mostly around cars.So far, so…

Food may be the most popular subject on the planet. In fact, scientists have long said that men and women think about food more often than almost anything…

More than six billion people live on the planet, and yet relatively few human voices are recognizable to the naked ear.Irma Thomas has one of those…

Outside New Orleans, Walter “Wolfman” Washington may not be a household name. Nevertheless, he’s spent decades touring as a sideman with some of our…

What do you hear when he plays his clarinet? Can you hear the bayou? The river? The French Quarter? People sitting on their stoops waiting for someone to…

“Everything in life is governed by rhythm,” says Herlin Riley, “Everything. (And) when you play the drums, the rhythms are quicker.”Riley is quoting his…

Margie Perez grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC on a diet of classic rock and Cuban rhythms. As the child of immigrants from Havana, she knew Johnny…

Some designs never go out of style and mid-century modern furniture, architecture, prints and homewares still put the “fun” in functional. The idea behind…