I was working on a matter last year that Frank touched on in his book. He didn't speak about it at length, but reported the popular impression of what it was about as true. With basic research he could have corrected the false impression he left. Losing this example wouldn't affect his thesis, but it doesn't give me confidence for other examples he reported on.

Those singles were collected onto a single CD put out by Chess (I think), which is probably out of print but fairly easy to find.

I found a Razor and Tie compilation at a local Tower a few months ago.

I think in my head, More like Beausoliel (sp?) cajun, More Longhair? Creole.

AMG's take on the difference between Cajun & zydeco. I love Longhair, and he could certainly be classified as Creole, and zydeco can be considered Creole, but Fess isn't zydeco, at least I wouldn't say he is. Temperamentally I'm not a purist, and I don't know enough about zydeco to make sweeping pronouncements, but zydeco without an accordion just doesn't compute pour moi. YZMV. Anyway, here's a collection w/ Clifton Chenier and Professor Longhair. And here's WWOZ's list of links to local artists, broken into genres. You can listen online, but I didn't see any archives.

"Ruler of My Heart" is not only my favorite Irma Thomas songs, but also one of my fav slow dance songs.

It's on the Allen Toussaint collection, produced & written by. (Naomi Neville was his oft-used pseudonym. I think it was his mother's name.)

but zydeco without an accordion just doesn't compute pour moi.

It's like a muffaletta without olives!

It's like a muffaletta without olives!

Hee!

Thanks for the WWOZ link- I'll look through it. It looks like some guy named Doug acutally knows how to put together a mix of La. music that's not all contemporary country, so I'll be downloading that when I get home, and then going through your link, and cherry picking artists to download. This is going to make me homesick.

In other (Devil) music news: [link] Between this and my friends who forward me stuff asking for my help to find missing kids, I'm beginning to think that buffistas are the only ones who can get to snopes. Are school board members on one of the internets without it?

AMG's take on the difference between Cajun & zydeco.

I thought the main difference is that cajun musicians stand up and zydeco musicians hang from the ceiling.

Nope. Never going to get tired of that joke, am I?

Not because he is rich or whatever but because he just wasn't as respectful as he could have been to the people he was telling to think harder.

Gotcha. Not to get into defending him too much, but I don't think he's really trying to reach the masses. I think he's trying now (what with the glib answers and all) to be a talking head a la Eric Alterman.

He didn't speak about it at length, but reported the popular impression of what it was about as true. With basic research he could have corrected the false impression he left.

I see things like this all the freakin' time. Always disappointing.

Better magazines in the same general vein as the Baffler, off the top of my head:

N+1

The Oxford American

I also have an only occasionally defensible love for The Believer as well, which has gone downhill since a brilliant first ten or so issues.

Joe Boucher!

We did a piss poor job of hooking up while you were in town and consequently I couldn't give you a burn of the Iris Dement covers that interested you.

So I just posted them at Buffistarawk.

Available to anybody who likes Iris.

For the unconventional love song mix, I nominate All I Ever Knew by +/-. I friggin' love that song.