In the past couple years, I’ve developed a pretty serious addiction to old New Orleans records. Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, I was pretty constantly being washed over by the wake of New Orleans culture, and always had a pretty serious aversion to New Orleans music, the same way that Irish friends of mine cringe whenever they hear traditional Irish tunes like “Danny Boy” (check out my blog on Powells.com for more about this). SInce the storm, though, I have given into my destiny of loving old New Orleans funk, soul and r n’ b. What did it for me was a tape of Soul Jazz records’ anthology Saturday Night Fish Fry, a two disc collection of rare to not-so-rare tracks from the Read the rest of this entry »
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