Member Since: 7/27/2007
Band Website: theind.com
Band Members: Prior to joining The Independent in 2003, Editor Scott Jordan was associate editor for New Orleans’ OffBeat magazine and music editor and staff writer for New Orleans’ Gambit Weekly. Jordan’s writing has appeared in The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide, Billboard, Downbeat and other publications. He’s also written liner notes for numerous CD projects, including Stevie Ray Vaughan’s The Real Deal: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2. He’s interviewed and written extensively about Ray Charles, Fats Domino, The Meters and the Neville Brothers, Bob Weir and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, B.B. King, Booker T. Jones of Booker T. & the MGs, Jeff Beck, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Dr. John, Randy Newman, John Fogerty, Solomon Burke, Bobby Charles, Gregg Allman, John Hiatt, Jimmie Vaughan, numerous bluesmen including late greats Jimmy Rogers, Clarence “Gatemouth†Brown, Johnny Copeland and too many other amazing and talented Louisiana musicians he can’t remember as his brain is full from work and raising his sons Evan and (The Mighty) Quinn.Managing Editor R. Reese Fuller found his way to The Independent Weekly in January 2004. In 1998, he co-founded LouisianaRadio.com in Lafayette, the first Internet radio station dedicated to Louisiana's music, playing everything from Amédé Ardoin to Zebra. Then as assistant editor and senior writer for The Times of Acadiana, he wrote about Sonny Landreth, Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Santeria, cold beer, Ernest J. Gaines, cockfighting, James Lee Burke, perique tobacco, and Jimmy Martin. His writing has also appeared in Louisiana Life and Gambit Weekly. He’s won multiple awards from the Louisiana Press Association, and two of his favorite interviews were with Boozoo Chavis and Eddie Shuler . He's a member of the Tommy Comeaux Committee, which works to establish the Tommy Comeaux Endowed Fund for Traditional Music at UL Lafayette. When he's not writing, playing on the Internets, listening to music too loudly, or barbecuing, he's hanging out with his wife and son.Staff writer Mary Tutwiler is one of the pre-eminent food writers in Louisiana, and her award-winning writing has appeared in The Times-Picayune, Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, Chili Pepper Magazine and emerils.com. Her culinary curiosity takes her down many roads - from hunting down a plate lunch joint that serves chaudin (stuffed smoked pig’s stomach) on its Saturday menu to finding local growers of heritage figs and Creole tomatoes. To her great delight, all three of her daughters have turned out to be good cooks, sharing her inclination to play with her food. She’s also a contributor to the forthcoming book Cornbread Nation 4.
Type of Label: Indie