Jazz Fest 2022!
Very excited to be invited to perform at the 2022 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival! Sunday May 8...
(Fingers crossed)
A good songwriter writes good songs. A great songwriter writes overarching poetic narratives. The songwriter as lyric poet doesn’t just turn out albums or mixes, they weave myths that touch our collective soul and seem at once personal and in synch with the human zeitgeist. Alex McMurray is such a writer, and his songs that make up Road Songs may someday be remembered as a myth of these times...
After the forced evacuation of New Orleans in 2005, some of the earliest returnees were musicians who came back after an exile that convinced them there was no place on earth that would nurture their music better than the beautiful Crescent.
The art that some of them created was great, in some cases astonishingly so, as a new era of New Orleans music emerged, fired in the Biblical crucible...
Hello friends I have just released a new album. It's called "Road Songs" and was recorded locally at Studio Seurat by Michael Mehiel and has some fine players on it including Spencer Bohren, Susan Cowsill, Jimbo Mathus, Carlo Nuccio, Casey McAllister, Matt Rhody, Dr. Sick, Jason Jurzak, Jeff Treffinger, Anthony...
Catch a glimpse of pre-covid life right here...
John Swenson writing for an online publication called "Tourworthy" https://www.tourworthy.com/articledetails/these-streams