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This Week's Show Themes: A couple topical themes to tie the music and sound clips together during the fund drive show. Starting with a tragic case of domestic violence between the Earth and its Moon.
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We preview the upcoming Crescent City Blues and BBQ festival. Along the way,
we'll catch up with Scott Aiges from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage
Foundation to talk about the festival. In the second half, we listen to an
encore performance of Paul Sanchez and John Boutt...
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Story and photograph by Ignacio Sanguinetti.Margie Perez is a lovely singer
and also a fantastic songwriter. Her last CD, “Singing for my Supper,” is
soon going to be re-released through a non-profit label dedicated to helping
New Orleans musicians. You can always find her ...
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I believed the 4am infomercial. And only $29.99 for a Life-Coach-In-A-Box
seemed like a steal. Then when they threw in a collection of mystery soul
artist music, I took the bait. Unfortunately, when the cassette tapes(!)
arrived, the coach was Fabio and the music was tha...
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We check out the sounds of Johnny Sansone, followed by Roddie Romero & the
Hub-City All Stars. Both artists use the accordion, stirring in the flavor of
southwest Louisiana with Sansone adding a taste of Chicago and Romero cooking
up his roux in Lafayette, Louisiana. Durin...
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