Credit: Photo By John Carrico

Irma Thomas, Sixth Street, 1995

They don’t call her the Queen of New Orleans for nothing. Thomas has been making great music and entertaining audiences for over four decades — and still looks fabulous doing so here at the SXSW outdoor stage.

This article appears in January 28 • 2000.

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