The first thing that we do as we pull away from the Arrivals section of Armstrong International in New Orleans is turn on the radio and tune to FM 90.7.

WWOZ/FM 90.7 has been a fixture of NOLA Music and Culture since it went on the air in 1980. For a time it operated from the Second Floor of the building housing Tipitina’s.  It was a very funky, shoestring-type affair. They would sometimes broadcast musical performances Live on Air by lowering a microphone through a hole in the floor to catch the Shows at Tip’s one floor down.
Luckily a great deal of the early WWOZ On Air Shows were recorded to reel-to-reel tape. When Katrina shut down the station, these were rebroadcast via the Internet as ‘OZ in Exile”.

Speaking of the Internet, you can live stream the Station here…
https://www.wwoz.org/
www.wwoz.org/listen/player

I mention this for a couple of reasons.
The first is that WWOZ is a great source of NOLA Music all year round. This is especially true during the Jazz & Heritage Fest when a lot of the music is simulcast on the station.
The second reason is we’re dropping by the station on Saturday Morning! This has been a thing some of us have really wanted to happen since we’ve been heading down to NOLA as kids, so we wanted to get the word out…

So, if you’re in the NOLA area, listen in  between 11 AM and Noon on Saturday, November 16th. For the rest of the World, you can stream it Live at the above address.

While we’re on the Media, here’s an article from last year about our (then upcoming) first NOLA Shows at the Maple Leaf.

Mr. Blotto to record live album at the Maple Leaf Bar, 11/16–11/17

As you may already know, we did record the Shows and put them out as ‘Live at the Leaf”. You can pick up your copy here…
Mr. Blotto: Live At The Leaf

“Everybody says the Radio is Magic…”
-Chief