Intro; Makin Runs; Didn't He Ramble: Ride On King Jesus; Down By the Riverside; Hot Time; Intermission; Pallet On Your Floor; Careless Love; Bucket's Got A Hole In it; Funky Butt The origin story of ...

Way back in the late 1800s, a young Black kid named Charles “Buddy” Bolden was honing his skills as a musician, growing up in what are now New Orleans’ Central City and Irish Channel neighborhoods.

Five years ago, the future seemed bright for a decrepit 19th-century shotgun house that was once home to a jazz legend. A New Orleans-born R&B star pledged to protect the vulnerable property by ...

Bolden is also known mostly through oral history, as records about him and his family were either lost or non-existent. Only one picture of him with his band is available. That band played at various ...