By Nathan Coker
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May 28th, 2021
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From bedroom guitarist to believing “the sky’s the limit,” Josh Love isn’t just moving his fingers around his guitar, he’s seeking to communicate the message that music is life. article by VANELIS RIVERA and photographs by ANDREW BAILEY Josh Love was only a few minutes behind schedule when he walked ...
By Nathan Coker
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Apr 29th, 2021
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“The running joke in our house is that my mom is made of asbestos,” humored James E. Simpson about local celebrity Mary Quinn Simpson who has overcome a few health issues over the years. During the late 80s and early 90s, Mary performed in the area’s lounge and stage circles, harkening back to vaudev...
By Nathan Coker
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Mar 29th, 2021
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article by VANELIS RIVERA / photography by KELLY MOORE CLARK Known as the Rhythm & Rain Trio, their passionate acoustic performance has a coastal feel they’ve described as island-flavored rock with some Mississippi Delta heritage and a splash of comedy. It was a sunny sixty-five degrees w...
By Nathan Coker
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Jan 28th, 2021
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ARTICLE BY VANELIS RIVERA & PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW BAILEY Offering private instruction by qualified, university-trained personnel, GRACE NOTE ACADEMY is taking classic teaching styles and making them accessible to students of all ages and abilities. A grace note is a music notation usually printed...
By Nathan Coker
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Dec 4th, 2020
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ARTICLE BY VANELIS RIVERAPHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW BAILEY Calvin “Cal” Presley is a jeans and t-shirt kind of guy. A quick scroll through his band’s Facebook page portrays an easygoing 34-year-old with an affinity for wearing single-tone baseball caps backward, dark aviators, and a plethora of sneakers. ...
By Nathan Coker
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Nov 11th, 2020
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article by VANELIS RIVERA | photography by ANDREW BAILEY About three years ago, local musician Josh Madden was asked by a Strauss Theatre board member if he would be interested in playing Jerry Lee Lewis in Colin Escott’s and Floyd Mutrux’s Million Dollar Quartet. Though confident he could play the r...
By Nathan Coker
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Oct 5th, 2020
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The band, now officially Scotty Temple and South Bound Train, is currently made up of Eric Little on lead guitar, drummer Josh Dupree, bass guitarist Brad Wiggers, and Mason Howard on steel guitar and saxophone. The result: energetic covers and hard-hitting originals. South Bound Train is specificall...
By Nathan Coker
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Sep 8th, 2020
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ARTICLE BY VANELIS RIVERAPHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW BAILEY One does not merely listen to the blues. The powerful and starkly poetic music form is an experience. Add a regional variant like the Delta blues, regarded as one of the earliest-known styles of the genre, and the end product is an introspective a...
By Cassie Livingston
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Jul 2nd, 2020
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If you have frequented live music events in Northeast Louisiana for the past thirty years, chances are that you’ve seen a barrel chested bear of a man, bandana clad, wearing a sleeveless plaid button down, jean shorts, signature work boots, shredding an electric guitar with a lit cigar in his mouth. ...
By Cassie Livingston
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Jun 5th, 2020
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Mason Howard will tell people he’s been performing for about seven years, but his first paid gig was actually when he was eight. His impressive range of ability is embodied in the amount of instruments he owns, his natural knack for composing melodies, and the people who have taught him along the way...
