The Ponderosa Stomp

[Jahfin]

The Ponderosa Stomp: A Gathering of Survivors

By JON PARELES

Cheryl Gerber for The New York Times

The Remains performing at the Ponderosa Stomp

NEW ORLEANS, La.,–

Guitar twangers, soul belters, blues shouters, rockabillies, funk generators, garage-rockers and psychedelic holdouts - that’s the annual Ponderosa Stomp, the two-night musical marathon, from 6 p.m. to after 3 a.m., tucked between the weekends of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Founded by Dr. Ike, an anesthesiologist named Ira Padnos with a record collector’s dedication to the combination of obscurity and wildness, the Stomp is now in its eighth year in New Orleans, where I’ll be hearing way too much music (and blogging about it) till the 40th annual Jazzfest ends on Sunday.

You can read the rest of the review here.