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Sting’s latest album The Bridge showcases his prolific and diverse songwriting. He joined Ronnie Littlejohn to talk about the new record.

The Meters’ Leo Nocentelli speaks with Ronnie Littlejohn about Another Side, a solo album that was finally released more than 50 years after he recorded it.

Irma Thomas, known as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans,” talks about the new documentary Irma: My Life in Music.

Jon Cleary’s love and affinity for New Orleans music goes back to the rural British village of Cranbrook, Kent, where he was raised in a musical family.

Cha Wa exude the energy of New Orleans street culture By Ronnie Littlejohn Zack Smith Crossing a New Orleans brass band with a Mardi Gras Indian outfit, Cha Wa exude the energy of the city’s street culture. They’ve been described as “a grand gumbo of singing, intoxicating rhythms, and deep funk grooves that are impossible to resist.”  My People, the band’s followup to their Grammy-nominated album Spyboy, feels like pure joy, a distillation of generations of New Orleans expression. But it also never fails to remind us how hard-won that joy was and still is — not least in the ten...