Duke Robillard Produces Blue Moon Marquee. The father-son duo of South Island Rhythm Kings. John Primer is the real deal. Rick Berthod pays tribute to Peter Green. Koko Mojo does it again with "Southern Bred." And the son of Muddy Waters is named Mud.
CAN AN ARTIST HIT THE JUGULAR while they’re reaching for the wallet at the same time? Only if the wallet and the jugular are the same thing. In the cultural devolution of “audience” to “eyeballs,” perhaps no genre has so loudly insisted on its robust resistance to power as comedy and perhaps no genre’s complicity has, since 2017, been made more transparent. (Let the rise of Joe Rogan be citation enough here.) To borrow a one-liner from Morgan Bassichis’s brilliant solo performance Questions to Ask Beforehand (Bridget Donahue), “What stage of capitalism is it called when everyone’s a comedian?”