[Updated 11/24/2009 with Instant 3283] Although the two would never exactly bond professionally, Joe Banashak hired Eddie Bo not only as a producer, arranger, and writer, but also as a recording artist. Starting in 1966, Bo worked primarily on...

If you been trying to catch the HOTG Radio stream lately, you haven't had much luck. The server is down and currently being repaired. rebuilt, whatever the technically proficient do with 'em. Obviously, some serious grooving has been going on, as we...

Greets. Just three records this time, and a lot of back-fill. One of the records is on an archived previous post. So, you'll have to hit the link back to it to hear the audio and read the other Bo connection to it that I did not get into this time. I...

***Updated 10/5/2009*** STRIKING OUT ON HIS OWN The independent record business in New Orleans was always volatile and precarious. Starting with the first wave in the mid-1950s, numerous local labels formed and folded, with most lasting just a few...