Local music featured at New Orleans Jazz Fest
Fans lured to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival by the Beach Boys, Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen (last weekend’s headliners) tend to leave with the earthier funk of local heroes stuck in their ears. A wave of Louisiana favorites is likely to steal thunder from this weekend’s aural tentpoles Foo Fighters, Eagles and the Zac Brown Band. Can’t be there? USA TODAY’s Edna Gundersen checks out 11 current releases by some of the bill’s top regional acts and one immortal bonus. (Out now unless otherwise indicated.)
