We’ve created donation “products” in our store for several of our artists. These donations will go straight to them a few days after the funds clear the bank. You may use credit cards or PayPal. There is also one for the label, but we greatly prefer you buy CDs, vinyl, and downloads from our website to support us.
BasinStreetRecords.com/Rebirth
BasinStreetRecords.com/Bonerama
Kermit Ruffins will perform LIVE Saturday, March 28th at 2pm CT at Facebook.com/RuffinsBBQ, the virtual version of Kermit’s Treme Mother-In-Law Lounge. Get his award winning music now and make contributions at https://www.BasinStreetRecords.com/Kermit
Saturday, March 21st at 4:20pm catch Kermit Ruffins live on Kermit’s Treme Mother-in-Law Lounge Facebook page! Watch live at http://www.facebook.com/RuffinsBBQ
You can contribute on Cash App $KermitRuffins or buy his products here on the website! Check them out at http://www.basinstreetrecords.biz/product-category/kermit-ruffins/ There is even a Kermit Ruffins Donation product to choose from to allow you to use credit cards and PayPal, and we will transfer all of that to Kermit less the transactions costs.
At 8p on Saturday, catch Grammy winner Jon Cleary’s 2nd Quarantini Session LIVE on his Facebook page at http://www.Facebook.com/JonClearyMusicOfficial You can donate straight to Jon at PayPal.me/JonClearyNola
Jon Cleary is replacing what would have been a show at Chickie Wah Wah with a Q&A and performance from FHQ World Headquarters. 8p CT. Tell your friends! Pick up Pin Your Spin and Jon Cleary and the Absolute Monster Gentlemen now at http://www.BasinStreetRecords.com/shop
Check in tonight at https://www.facebook.com/jonclearymusicofficial
Did you hear? ESPN chose Vaughan’s lounge as the site to film their intro video for the College Football Championship featuring Lil Wayne & Corey Henry’s Treme Funktet!
The video premieres at 6:58 PM CT tonight (Monday) on ESPN, and will feature the song “Treme Lyfe” by Corey Henry & The Treme Funktet.
For the uninitiated, Vaughan’s is an important music venue in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans. Kermit Ruffins played there every Thursday for many years, and recorded the album Live at Vaughan’s there. Corey Henry played in Kermit’s band regularly at Vaughan’s, is on the Live at Vaughan’s album, and when Kermit retired from his Thursday night gigs there, Corey Henry took over for him.
We have some very nice Live at Vaughan’s fine art posters featuring the photography of Frank Relle. Including seven copies that are signed by Kermit Ruffins and Frank Relle. Get one before they sell out!
“ By blending the world’s finest trombone section with the deeply soulful vocals of Michael McDonald, Bonerama has cooked up a brilliant jambalaya that will be savored for a long time to come! “
— Don Was, President, Blue Note Records / Founder, Was (Not Was)
“Empty World” is dedicated to Allen Toussaint, the prolific legendary New Orleans producer and musician who impacted the lives of many New Orleans musicians including those of Bonerama. The lyrics reference Toussaint’s songs, paint a picture of the kind person he was, and express sadness of him no longer being with us. The song also has an alternate meaning as a dedication to all of New Orleans lost legends.
Bonerama is viewed by some as one of the most genuine, unique and interesting bands to come from the Crescent City, incorporating brass, funk, soul, rock, blues and alternative into their one-of-a-kind sound. Three trombones, plus sousaphone, guitar and drums all deliver powerful sounds that you have to hear to believe.
Relix Magazine
Bonerama bandleader and songwriter Mark Mullins explains, “I was pretty much devastated when I heard the news of Allen’s passing. His influence on me as a musical hero, arranger, composer, producer is immeasurable.” Mullins penned “Empty World” on the very same day he learned of Toussaint’s passing, and the song came together in about an hour. While working on the 40th Anniversary Tour of The Last Waltz, Mullins asked the legendary vocalist Michael McDonald to perform on the track, and McDonald agreed delivering an outstanding performance.
Mullins explains further about the impact of Allen Toussaint, “I think of the seemingly effortless ability he brought to the process: brilliant ideas to song to arrangement, artist recruitment, recording, mixing, completing a song, and repeating the process to make a collection of songs. Then, he excelled at the behind the scenes business artistry of bringing these songs to the masses. A whole other art. It’s an astounding series of hurdles to clear and he made it look easy. If any of those steps don’t come together perfectly along the way, the song likely becomes lost, and virtually no one will hear it or remember it. Allen Toussaint’s contributions to New Orleans music are simply unparalleled in what one person has done to make the genre what it is today. For us, as New Orleans musicians, wanna-be role models, and fans, we wanted to make this as special as we could for him, and all of the legends that are so rapidly leaving this world, in what is feeling like, to me, an Empty World.”
