Browsing: Treme

The New Orleans great discusses his friend B.B. King, his appearance in the HBO series Treme, The Stones covering his music, losing everything in Katrina, and how New Orleans music is coming back strong!

Returning for it’s 3rd season, the story revolves around a colorful cast of New Orleans characters, with a second-to-none soundtrack of blues, jazz, and heavy brass.

The powerful Lionel Batiste, of the famous Treme Brass Band, has passed away.

Jazz was born in Brass and bacon grease down in the Tremé . This year, The famed neighborhood celebrates the 200th anniversary of it’s annexation into New Orleans.

It is with deep sadness that we must pass along the news that the enigmatic Hoodoo bluesman Coco Robicheaux, who…

Dr. John is one of the most internationally celebrated musicians to come from New Orleans. After a half century of creating music, he’s still running fast and strong.

We love some New Orleans blues, and what better place to find a whole mess of it than the soundtrack to the show that is so deeply rooted in New Orleans, you’d need more than a bulldozer to get it out!