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It was a beautiful night as Wit's End Brass Band played at a fundraiser for Community Kitchen Collective in the Lower 9th Ward's Holy Cross neighborhood yesterday! ....
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Fans who know Erika Lewis as the brassy blues singer in front of Tuba Skinny have only gotten a part of the story. On her debut solo album, Lewis, now based in Asheville, trades in her blue notes for pure country. Lewis reveals a clear prettiness that much of her former work obscured, as well ....
Digging into the tradition, playing vintage material for young hipsters, making musicology fun Maria Muldaur started doing that in the Boston coffeehouses five decades ago, and Tuba Skinny is doing it in New Orleans now. So, it’s no surprise that they’ve been circling around each other for a while (Muldaur sat in with Tuba Skinny at d.b.a. two years ago) and that they’ve now made an album out of it. The pairing makes sense on a few levels: Tuba Skinny have lacked a good frontwoman since regular singer Erika Lewis went part-time, and Muldaur can always use a band to click with. They’re enough on the same wavelength that this project avoids the clumsiness often found in cross-generational collaborations. Muldaur’s persona has always been a bit bawdy it was she who made a ’70s hit out of Blue Lu Barker’s “Don’t Feel My Leg” so Tuba Skinny can play loose and be respectful at the same time. Muldaur’s voice has deepened over the years, but these sessions bring ....
Maria Muldaur teams up with Tuba Skinny for vintage jazz and blues album Six-time Grammy nominee Maria Muldaur, who’s been dubbed “The First Lady of Roots Music” for previous albums touching on her wide-ranging influences from blues, country, folk, jazz and even jug band music, continues her exploration of the great American roots music songbook. On her latest excursion, this time into the vintage jazz and blues sounds of the 1920s/’30s, Maria teams up with acclaimed New Orleans street band Tuba Skinny for Let’s Get Happy Together, scheduled for release on May 7 on Stony Plain Records. Muldaur recorded ....