LOUISIANA RED HOT RECORDS

Marc Stone CD Release dba PosterLouisiana Red Hot congratulates Marc Stone’s on his new release “Poison & Medicine.”

Marc Stone will host his official New Orleans release party at dba (Frenchman) on Thursday 5/28 10pm featuring an All-Star band w/ special guests Mike Dillon, The Honeypots, Walter “Wolfman” Washington and John Mooney. OffBeat magazine calls “Poison & Medicine” “A watershed moment in Stone’s career…some sort of glorious Elton John/Walter “Wolfman” Washington mashup.”

New Orleans based Blues and Roots master guitarist and songwriter Marc Stone will release his Louisiana Red Hot Records debut “Poison & Medicine” at dba on Thurs, May 28, 2015. Stone’s signing to Red Hot adds him to a powerhouse roster that includes the Honey Island Swamp Band, Ivan Neville and Dumpstaphunk and the New Orleans Suspects.

Stone has long earned a reputation for putting together incredible, one of a kind all star shows, and he’s going all out to celebrate his new CD. Many of the players that grace the album will be on hand. Bassist supreme “The Professor” Jack Joshua, piano master Josh Paxton, the Honeypots, the great Mike Dillon whose vibes and percussion work shine on the CD, harmonica phenom Patrick Williams, Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes drummer Andre Bohren and sax man Brad Walker, the Upstarts and Marc Broussard’s trumpet man Mark Levron, all will be joined by two of Stone’s heroes and inspirations, the amazing Walter “Wolfman” Washington and John Mooney.

“Poison & Medicine” features 8 grooving, soulful originals and one deep cover reflecting Stone’s 20 plus years playing with the masters of Louisiana R&B, Blues, Funk and Zydeco. Stone’s stories, guitar and voice stand front and center as a stellar cast of musicians including percussion wizard Mike Dillon, the Bonerama Horns, the late great tenor sax master Tim Green, members of Galactic, Honey Island Swamp Band, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band give color to the tunes and bring the communal spirit of the scene that Stone has worked in for two decades.

This release caps a stellar first half of 2015 for Stone. With a winter European tour under his belt and another coming this summer, Stone has performed with his band and duo have performed high profile gigs including French Quarter Festival, Tipitina’s opening for a sold out Radiators reunion show, a featured role in the All Star New Orleans tribute to Mad Dogs and Englishmen, performances with Walter “Wolfman” Washington, John Mooney, Leftover Salmon with Bill Payne and Col Bruce Hampton, Marcia Ball, as well as a nomination for Best Blues Artist in the 2015 Best of The Beat Awards.

For more info please visit www.marcstonemusic.com

COLIN LAKE AT JAZZFEST 2015

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Catch LRHR’s newest addition Jazzfest 2015!

Colin Lake is sure to perform songs from his highly anticipated new release “One Thing That’s For Sure” during his appearance at the 2015 Jazz and Heritage Festival. The album captures the
songwriter’s unique musical vision, delivering penetrating lyrics with soul and gritty sincerity. More information at www.colinlake.com

Colin’s JazzFest 2015 Dates include:
Thursday, April 23rd – D.B.A.
Saturday, April 25th – Circle Bar
Wednesday, April 29th – Louisiana Music Factory
Friday, May 1st – New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
House of Blues (CD Release Home Show)
Sunday, May 3rd – Gasa Gasa

LRHR WELCOMES KEVIN SEKHANI

kevin sekhani - promoAs a 20 year veteran of the Austin music scene, Kevin Sekhani has done it all. From blazing rock-n-roll to Holy Ghost Honkytonk, for years Sekhani has entertained crowds with heartfelt enthusiasm and poignant lyrics. In Austin, Sekhani spent his time working with Michael Ramos (John Mellencamp, Patty Griffin), Andrew Duplantis (Son Volt), and Austin Chronicle’s three-time String Player of the Year winner Warren Hood. In 2010, Sekhani moved back to his home town of Lafayette, Louisiana to front The Mercy Brothers, a Gospel group walking the fine line of sinners and saints. Since the prodigal son’s return home, he has won over the hearts of Jazz Fest and Festival International audiences, landed a top 5 spot on the Americana charts in Europe, toured Sweden, and signed his Gospel group to Louisiana Red Hot Records.

Kevin Sekhani’s veracious songwriting extends beyond Gospel into secular territory with his new solo album “Day Ain’t Done” set for release on Louisiana Red Hot Records early 2015.

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Glen’s CD topped a great list of albums released in 2014.

OffBeat writers and editors have assembled they consider the best 50 albums released in 2014 by Louisiana artists. The Top 25 is listed in order by ranking (followed by descriptions pulled from the pages of our album reviews during the past year) with the remaining 25 listed in alphabetical order.

This list stands as amazing simply in revealing the rich, diverse reach of New Orleans music. Get the full list here.

new orleans suspects - ouroborus“Want to hear a Supergroup? Catch the Suspects” – Jambands.com

Funkier than the Radiators, more rockin’ than the Neville Brothers, jazzier than James Brown, and able to leap tall levees in a single bound, the New Orleans Suspects ARE truly a Supergroup. Skeptics need only survey the Suspect’s stupendous resumes:

Drummer “Mean” Willie Green’s unique attack defined funk drumming for a quarter of a century with the Neville Brothers; sax player Jeff Watkins was James Brown’s musical director for twelve years; guitarist/vocalist Jake Eckert hails from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band; keyboardist/vocalist CR Gruver was a jam monster in Outformation; and Reggie Scanlan was The Radiators’ bassist for their 33-1/3-year run, after backing legends James Booker and Professor Longhair.

The latest evidence of the Suspects acumen is their new release “Ouroboros,” named for the ancient icon depicting a serpent eating its own tail. For the Suspects the Ouroboros symbolizes their continual recreation of New Orleans music – an inextinguishable force always being renewed and reborn. Indeed “Ouroboros” is a masterful, modern compendium of New Orleans stylings. It has fever-inducing funk, irresistible R&B rhythms, Longhair rhumbas, dancing-in-the-street second lines, jazzy soul-drenched horns, mind-melting swamp hoodoo, and feet-don’t-fail-me-now Carnivale music, all performed by a band in a class all their own – five musicians with the experience and versatility rivaling any band that New Orleans has ever produced.

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