Katie Webster

Until her death in 1999, Webster embodied the vitality of the modern New Orleans blues scene, with a booming but gentle voice and a barrelhouse piano style that was directly linked to the R&B-heavy classic period in Fat City (think Tuts Washington and Professor Longhair). The swamp blues pianist delivered this raucous, soulful and occasionally horny album in 1988.

New Orleans has always produced a musical blend that's even tastier than the blue-plate
special at K-Paul's Cajun Kitchen, and Katie Webster is one saucy pianist-vo-calist who
knows how to dish it out. Whether it's the barrelhouse boogie-woogie of "Black Satin," the
worldly rolls and fills of "No Bread, No Meat" or the melodic striding that underscores
Webster's world-weary rap on Joe Tex's "Hold On to What You Got," Webster is... More >