Storyville

  • Creole Roots, Sinners, and Gravediggers: The Blues According to Chris Thomas King

    Creole Roots, Sinners, and Gravediggers: The Blues According to Chris Thomas King

    Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley A New Episode from Jack Dappa Blues Radio “The Blues didn’t start in the Mississippi Delta — it began in Louisiana.”That’s the claim — and cultural correction — that Grammy and CMA Award-winning Bluesman Chris Thomas King boldly makes. In this culturally rich episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio,…

  • Black & Indian Folklife, Storyville, Oklahoma, & The Blues

    Black & Indian Folklife, Storyville, Oklahoma, & The Blues

    By: Lamont Jack Pearley There is excellent Black Folklife, Indian Folklore, Black Music, AND educational oral history in Kentucky and nationally that Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation archives and builds a repository for. In this episode, I discuss Storyville, Oklahoma, Freedmen, Blues, and the People of the Blues To Raise Cultural and Ethnic…

  • Glen David Andrews

    Glen David Andrews

    Treme’s Trombone Singer By Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode, I speak with Glen David Andrews, born and raised in Treme‘s 6 Ward, only blocks away from the historical Congo Square in New Orleans, Louisiana! Andrews shares that the gumbo of New Orleans culture is evident in the music and traditions and should be…