The Singing Bones

Sorry folks, I thought I was going to be able to post a 45 today but various pieces of equipment have been acting-up ever since we experienc...

I haven't seen this clip in years. Ya know, there are a very few select tunes which I consider quintessentially New Orleans, and this ...

A tough 45 to get your hands on. Tough enough that it wasn't until last spring that the average person could easily hear it at all. That...

What a crazy week it's been. Anyway, we're back home, power is on, and the internet is working....at least for the moment. I imagine...

Good news [at this point, I'll take whatever I can get]. This morning's forecast is a little less alarming than last night's. 80...

By the time everything was packed up this morning, it was clear that I was heading for Austin. We undoubtedly would've been fine in vari...

Not funny. Not funny at all. While we're of course hoping this scenario doesn't play out [on August 29th, of all days], it's not...

Here's a cut a friend and I have been paying some attention to lately. Seems it may be a rare example of James Booker playing both piano...

Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the band Black Merda. And I do understand that after playing on a number of great sides in Detroit...

Here's some teaser footage from the yet to be released film "By And By: New Orleans Gospel At The Crossroads". I feel really b...

I'm never so much at a loss as when I try to write about Gospel music. Not only am I admittedly ignorant on the subject, but info is ver...

I doubt you'll see this clip posted anywhere else, but I think Unc would approve. Looking sharp, dancing with the ladies, drinking Mille...

Derek See posted this 45 about six months ago and even though the record is apparently well known amongst the "northern soul" cro...

Sorry to be away so long. Duty called.....as well as the need to get out of town for a few days. I'm not a huge fan of instrumentals but...

I've spent a fair amount of effort trying to trace this 45.....and every time I think I might have something, it turns out to be utterly...

Because I tend to think everyone reads Dan Phillip's, Home of The Groove , I also tend to forget to mention when the man truly outdoes h...

I've been looking for a cheap copy of this record for a good long while. Not that it shows up all that often, but when it does, it commo...

This goes out to Doug Schulkind at WFMU who for some unknown reason happens to think what I do here, on the blog, is special. I've rarel...