Indigenous music fans from across the globe are familiar with Arhoolie Records.
If you’re not here’s some background: Founded by Chris Strachwitz in 1960, Arhoolie Records is one of the premier roots record labels, with the best in blues, Cajun, zydeco, Tex-Mex/Tejano, gospel, jazz, country, bluegrass, and regional music from around the world. Through the years, Strachwitz has recorded both known and obscure artists, and brought their music to wider audiences. Among the notable musicians who have recorded for Arhoolie are Big Mama Thornton, Flaco Jimenez, Clifton Chenier, Lightning Hopkins and Rose Maddox.
Anyway, at 1 p.m.. Friday on KRVS 88.7 FM, the program American Routes airs Arhoolie Records 50th Anniversary Celebration, which also doubles as a benefit for the Arboolie Foundation.
As part of the celebration, the BeauSoleil Trio with Michael Doucet, David Doucet and Mitch Reed are scheduled to play, as is Ry Cooder. Other guests include Santiago Jimenez Jr. with La Familia Peña-Govea, Los Cenzontles, Any Old Time String Band, Laurie Lewis & Tom Rozum.
Dead Stop with K-Doe ...
Not sure if you caught Fresh Air this morning on KRVS 88.7 FM, but in the segment Dead Stop, Ben Sandmel, no stranger to the area through his music writing and drumming with the Hackberry Ramblers, was interviewed about Ernie K-Doe.
The story, part of the NPR summer series, was titled “Beyond the Music in St. Louis Cemetery No 2.”
Sandmel knows what he’s talking about. His latest book is Ernie K-Doe, The R&B Emperor of New Orleans.
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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