Fricke’s Picks: Crescent City Grass

Bluegrass bands are as rare in New Orleans as high ground, so the Jazz Fest debut of the High Ground Drifters was an opening-day surprise. The quintet come from the town’s Mid-City neighborhood but shuffled covers (Bill Monroe, Django Reinhardt) and originals (”Hellbender,” “Jack ‘n the Bull”) with plenty of Kentucky in the bravado and [...]

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