Shawn Colvin (guitar), Alison Krauss (violin) and Jerry Douglas (steel guitar) perform Simon and Garfunkel's "The Boxer." This comes from a 2007 tribute show in Washington, DC, honoring Paul Simon as the winner of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, awarded by the Library ... Read more

The Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival is coming up October 17-19, and to help get you in the mood, we'll have a selection of blues videos over the next couple of weeks. First up, here's the pride of Gause, Texas, Ruthie Foster, with a gospel-inflected take on Son House's... Read more

For your weekend viewing pleasure, 52 minutes of Benny Goodman, live in Copenhagen in 1981. Erroneously billed as Goodman's last performance (which actually happened in 1986, during the year of his death), there are guest appearances from Svend Asmussen and Jimmy Maxwell; t... Read more

Jamaican music legend Jimmy Cliff, who'll be performing Monday at the HOB New Orleans, does two songs ("You Can Get It If You Really Want" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now") live in 2011 at the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, a five-day music f... Read more

Dr. John and the Lower 911, joined by Donald Harrison on sax, do a ten-and-a-half minute version of "Goin' Back To New Orleans", recorded August 13, 2006 at the Newport Jazz Festival. The title track from a 1992 release by Dr John, "Goin' Back To New Orleans" was originally... Read more

Aaron Neville and folk-blues-country vocalist Maria Muldaur perform "Amazing Grace" at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, on November 26, 1989. Muldaur's career began as part of the American folk music revival and the Greenwich Village scene of the early 1960s. Her subsequent... Read more

For your weekend viewing pleasure, here's Elvis Costello accompanied by Allen Toussaint, the Crescent City Horns (including Big Sam Williams) and the Imposters, live from the Montreal Jazz Festival on July 3, 2006. This video is 56 minutes long, selected from a 3 hour show-... Read more

Ella Fitzgerald's first appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1969, then held at the Montreux Casino, included this scat version of "One Note Samba". She's backed by the Tommy Flanagan Trio. The YouTube video mistakenly identifies this as "a packed New Orleans" perfor... Read more

Two Guardians of the Groove, Bonnie Raitt and Allen Toussaint, team up on "What Is Success" at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans in 2006. The song dates from around 1970, having appeared on Toussaint's eponymous second solo album, also issued as From a Whisper to a Scream.   Read more

If you haven't caught Galactic with singer Maggie Koerner (or even if you have!), check out this video recorded earlier his year at Freebird Live, a Jacksonville, Florida music venue. The song, "Dolla Diva" was written by Koerner and David Shaw of the Revivalists.   Read more