Exactly four weeks from Fat Tuesday, it's time to get serious about Mardi Gras. Thus the Dixie Cups and their 1965 rendition of "Iko Iko", a bubble gum take on a Carnival classic first recorded in 1954 as "Jock-a-Mo" by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford. A family act from the Call... Read more

This week’s program is a mixture of love songs and sweets, as we prepare for Valentine’s Day.  Throughout the hour, we’ll spend our time enjoying cool desserts with a little cake on the side.  Music of the hour includes songs by Irma Thomas, Walter ‘Wolfman’ Washington, the... Read more

Jamaica's Andrew Chin, better known as Brushy One String, was a crowd pleaser at last year's Jazz Fest, playing an acoustic guitar with a single string (see the photo above). Brushy's act is an object lesson in doing more with less. He makes engaging music by combining his ... Read more

Chicago Blues legend (and inspiration to many a 1960s British rocker) McKinley Morganfield (1913–1983), better known as Muddy Waters, sounds great at 64-years-old in this live performance, recorded in Dortmund, West Germany in 1976. It's a little over an hour long, and cont... Read more

Inviting all fun people in New Orleans to join a new marching krewe, which will debut as part of the KreweDelusion parade on Saturday, February 15, 2014 rolling right after Krewe du Vieux. It's the Krewe of King James: the Super Bad Sex Machine Strollers, and if you love So... Read more

Esperanza Spalding (appearing in New Orleans on February 6 with the Spring Quartet in a sold-out Jazz Journey concert to be live broadcast on WWOZ) sounds terrific in this undated live performance on NRK1, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation's main television channel.   Read more

Rebirth Brass Band kills it with this Carnival staple, "Big Chief", filmed in 2011 at the Maple Leaf using 5 cameras by Come See About Me Productions, who've worked on a Brass Roots documentary.   Read more

I was thinking about Pete Seeger and what he and his music meant to many.   It was not just the folk songs, it was the role and responsibility of the musician that Seeger exemplified.     To Seeger, Politics and Music were never separate... Read more