They’ve been hailed as “one of the most exciting bands to come out of Portland in a long time” by Oregon based KINK Radio. Miriam’s Well is one of those bands that floats between rock and roll and the blues without laboring either and taking just enough from each to create something unique with the raw elements. Throw in some first-rate songwriting craftiness and natural chemistry between great players and you’ve got a great a band. Hopefully, that’s how it works. It doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes you spin the wheel, with all the right elements, and you get a snooze fest. But that is not the case with Miriam’s Well, which draws from a deep well of roots, rock and independent music.
Formed by vocalist Mir German and guitarist Mark Bowden, Miriam’s Well is filled out by Sam Howard on bass, Dave Fleschner on organ, Cheo Larcombe on drums and ex-Lafayette songwriter, pianist and rocker in exile Steve Kerin on keyboard. Yeah, that’s the same Steve Kerin who, over the last two decades, played with about every great band in Lafayette! The dude is out there still doing it.
Miriam’s Well have shared stages with Taj Mahal, Shawn Colvin, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Carlene Carter, Spencer Davis, Sonny Landreth and many more. On March 15, Miriam’s Well plays the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette. Go check them out. And buy a copy of their new CD Indians and Clowns.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again, it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to go public this year.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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