Rick Olivier has spent a lifetime photographing south Louisiana musicians. He’s also an avid collector of 45 rpm records from the golden era of New Orleans rhythm and blues, which informs his approach ...

Bassist Cullen Landry first played classic New Orleans rhythm & blues with the Jokers in the late 1950s, when he was a student at Jesuit High School. Nearly 60 years later, he’s still celebrating the ...

Rudolph Isley, a founding member of the Isley Brothers who helped perform such raw rhythm and blues classics as “Shout” and “Twist and Shout” and the funky hits “That Lady” and “It’s Your Thing,” has ...