Anders Osborne Narrates, Scores NOLA Short

Anders, whose new album Coming Down came out this past Tuesday, recently completed a short film for the New Orleans Hope and Heritage Project. The project is dedicated to supporting the efforts to rebuild and transform the city of New Orleans, while staying true to the city's unique heritage and culture.

Anders has lived in New Orleans for over 20 years, and in the movie he talks about the City's music as "the fiber that holds the city together...the familiar stumbling serenade to being alive."

Anders Osborne On New Orleans Music

Booker T. Jones Honored by NARAS-Memphis

The Memphis chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which oversees the Grammy awards, presented Stax Records legends Booker T. and the MGs with its Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday

The band -- organist Booker T. Jones, guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn and original bass player Lewie Steinberg -- all spoke before offering up a long, languorous take on their classic "Time is Tight."

Booker T., along with Cropper, Dunn, Steinberg and the late, great Al Jackson, Jr, received a NARAS Lifetime Achievement Award on February 11, 2007 (picture).