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A rushed report from my first day at this year's Pop Montreal : New Orleans soul queen Irma Thomas set a high bar with her performance at the Ukrainian Federation hall, singing with nary an audible notch of lost power at 67 years of age. It was sweet that she kept apologizing in the first third of the set for doing numbers from her new Simply Grand album and promising to get to the classics soon,...
After one too many cocktails at an impromptu party across the street from the Ukrainian Federation, we managed to snag balcony seats to see Irma Thomas . The self-proclaimed “Queen of New Orleans Soul” looked decades younger than her 67 years, decked out in a sequined shirt, grey tights and heels. Her backing band warmed up the crowd with a few sing-along standards ("I've Got Sunshine on a Cloudy...
That New Orleans R&B is among the most significant influences in American music is a given. Precisely where it ranks among the other influencers is subject to long and entertaining debate. Beyond argument, however, is the influence Allen Toussaint has had on New Orleans R&B over the past 50 years. His fingerprints are all over it.
photos by Kyle Dean Reinford Let's face it, anyone who is going to style themselves "The Dap-Tone Super Soul Revue" had better be able to represent. Or, as Jones put it, "TES-tify and REC-tify." After a JBs-style instrumental vamp and...
Grammy award-winning blues singer Irma Thomas scored hits in the early '60s, including “Time Is on My Side” (later covered by the Rolling Stones ), but by the end of the decade, she was a single mother struggling to support four kids. Working at a department store, she recorded intermittently and then came back big in the '70s, to become known as the soul queen of New Orleans. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina...
Irma Thomas, Neko Case, and Susan Cowsill Join Prominent Women Singers, Songwriters and Poets on Break the Silence Benefit CD for Congo Week Excerpt from a Press Release just received from Friends of the Congo: Washington, DC - September 19, 2008 - Grammy winner Irma Thomas, Americana singer Neko Case, and pop icon Susan Cowsill join forces with noted women singers, songwriters and poets to benefit...
Great British rocker Dave Edmunds returns on September 22nd, 2008 with a new album 'The Many Sides of Dave Edmunds - The Greatest Hits and More', released on Universal ...
The show will go on in New Orleans. After the city dodged the worst of Hurricane Gustav, producers of the 2008 Voodoo Music Experience festival are moving ahead with next month's event. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Mars Volta, N*E*R*D, TV On The Radio, Irma Thomas, the Butthole Surfers, Fishbone and Ben Jelen have joined the lineup for the 2008 Voodoo Experience, to be held Oct. 24-26 at New Orleans' City Park.
Record discus, medal haul for T&T mastersTuesday, September 2nd 2008Trinidad and Tobago's Geraldine George-Francis broke the discuss record in the North America, Central America and Caribbean Regional Track & Field Championships with a throw of 42 metres to capture the gold medal on the first day of the games in Florida on August 28. George-Francis was one of the country's 25 gold medallists at the...
Here's the rundown of concerts and parties originally planned before the hurricane forced changes to the convention schedule.___MONDAYEven though there's only one original member, they're still called the Beach Boys and they were scheduled to get things going at the Atrium at International Market Square. Some true all-stars — including Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, Tab Benoit and Cyril Neville — comprise...
With the Democrats' party in Denver now one for the books, we'll know come November whether or not there will be any encores to one of the more musical national political conventions the nation has ever witnessed. We've got the rundown on everything that went down in Denver, plus some of the better post-political concerts happening in your town this weekend
