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Uncut’s Top 75 Albums Of The Year, plus Springsteen, LCD Soundsystem, Father John Misty, Björk, The Weather Station, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Mavis Syaples and much more…

A Chess rock'n'roll R&B bonanza

Portrait of the eccentric New Orleans piano man, James Booker

The last recording by the genteel prince of New Orleans music

"When he was 11 we danced like possessed elves..."

Spectacular late career turn, crowd-funded in the Big Easy

A Q&A with New Orleans' new country/R&B stars

Concert was part of Swedish TV series 'Experiment Ensam'...

The special show took place as part of a Swedish film series called Experiment Alone...

Among my post last week, I received a nice care package from Ace Records that included one quite weird Duke Ellington album ("My People"); Volume 3 of their "Where Country Meets Soul" series (I cannot recommend Ralph ''Soul'' Jackson's version of ''Jambalaya'' highly enough); and, maybe best of all, "Cracking The Cosimo Code", a collection of extraordinary music originating from Cosimo Matassa's New Orleans studio in the 1960s.