A roots-music scholar, a radio personality and two local musicians are the 2017 Slim Harpo Music Awards recipients. The ceremony and jam session are set for Thursday, Nov. 16, at the Time Out Lounge.

Last week’s Slim Harpo Music Awards brought Texas music stars Jimmie Vaughan and Lou Ann Barton to Baton Rouge. At Chelsea’s Café, honorees Vaughan and Barton graciously accepted their Slim Harpo ...

Swamp-blues artist Slim Harpo has long been one of Louisiana’s least chronicled music stars. The new book by British writer Martin Hawkins changes that. At 416 pages, Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of ...

What goes around, well, you know how that works. For local musician Charles “C. C.” Adcock, it came around last week when the Slim Harpo Music Awards were announced. Adcock, Van Morrison (yes, that ...

Paul “Lil Buck” Sinegal has countless highlights from his 52 years in music. Nicknamed “The Master of the Stratocaster,” Sinegal added guitar to zydeco king Clifton Chenier’s “Bogalusa Boogie, a 1976 ...

Harpo Marx’s wife, Susan Fleming, once remarked that, when you got him talking, you couldn’t shut him up. The proof was there for those who chanced to see him on tour with his brothers in the 1930s ...