Dallas Observer | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Divine inspiration brought the Blind Boys of Alabama together in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind, a school that taught blind youth of the beleaguered South Braille and trained them for rudimentary careers making broom handles and chair bottoms. Today, leader Jimmy Carter is the ...
DISKUSIA - Music & Beyond (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
The schedule came out last week and now Spectacle: Elvis Costello with... has a website that features clips from the first episode, including Costello doing a cover of this week's interview subject EJ's " Border Song " with Allen Toussaint
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Letters: A more likely inspiration for Obama's message than Bob the Builder is the 1970 song Yes We Can
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Moments after walking onstage at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Friday night, New Orleans R&B great Allen Toussaint checked the piano for damage -- and for good reason. The two preceding late-show performances by Jon Cleary and Henry Butler celebrated Crescent City keyboard traditions with...
Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Here is New Orleans’ contribution to Barack Obama’s successful campaign, courtesy of Lee Dorsey and Allen Toussaint. This song was later covered by the Pointer Sisters. Enjoy.
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
How many I'll-never-forget-where-I-was-when's are happy memories? Think about it. From 9-11 on back to Pearl Harbor, since we've had instant mass communication, none of those...
Heaneyland! (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Clearly I would make a terrible dictator. I haven't told you what to do for days. But here's a song to listen to while you vote tomorrow (sidenote -- holy shit I cannot fucking wait to vote): the Pointer Sisters'...
This is London (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
The Millennium Dome, with its subdivision into pie-chart quadrants, is ideal for a weekend of New Orleans Jazz.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Well, you can't accuse them of deception
Dine Online (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
Firing up Festival New Orleans Friday and Saturday 24th / 25th October will be a weekend to celebrate - ‘New Orleans style’, as the deep South’s’ finest exports have joined forces to provide what can only be described as two days of ‘food for the soul’. Not only is there going to be [...]
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 10/17/2008
Barry Murphy returns once more trawl the TV and radio guides (so you don't have to) to find anything worth tuning into this week. All listings are for UK terrestrial TV, Freeview and national radio, with the shows running from...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
A few things happened to led us here to this point. 1. Some how, me & Suave (actually Suave & I but fuck formalities) got into a spirited discussion about how smooth & heavily sampled this Aaron Neville track is. In the end, I started doing digging & listening on my own, checking other [...]
The Telekino Times-Picayune (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Currently working through a particularly unshakeable earworm - Allen Toussaint's 'Southern Nights' (1975). Glen Campbell took it to number one on the pop and country charts in 1977 - here he is performing it live in short shorts, with a little help from a friend. Compare the hit version to the Toussaint original - with eerie lead vocals run through a Leslie speaker... Meanwhile the Lawrence Welk version...
XXL Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
I’m not pissed off at Lil’ Wang as much as I’m pissed off at Dirk Nowitzki. That butter leatheXXL Mag Dot Com family, Don't ever, ever, ever get a drug addiction, or an alcohol addiction, or a Allen Toussaint & The Stokes "Go Back Home" (1965) [audio:http://www.xxlmag.com/online/wp-content/u
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Coldplay will release an eight-song EP next month, "Prospekt's March," that will include a new version of the song "Lost" featuring rapper Jay-Z.
