The Girl Can't Help It

"...great rock & roll screen performances by Little Richard, Fats Domino, the Platters, and Gene Vincent. BeBop a Lula,..."

May 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Reissues

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band

"...(All) 3 stars --Jim Caligiuri Fats Domino..."

June 25, 1999 Music Feature

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, April 27-May 6

"...into New Orleans to the big buttery beat of Fats Domino. It's almost a shame to sleep. Then again,..."

May 18, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Li’l Band O’ Gold

Li’l Q&A with LBOG’s C.C. Adcock

"...The Promised Land, as well as new recordings with Fats Domino and Austin’s Robert Plant...."

Dec. 11, 2012 Music Post by Margaret Moser

Rock & Roll Books

Summer reading

"...Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll..."

June 2, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Reissues

Los Zafiros

"...Live at Gilley's (Q) FATS DOMINO..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Music Feature

Wop-bop-a-loo-bop

Little Richard, the pompadour himself, raps a little

"...Brother Joe May, Marion Williams, Ruth Brown, Roy Brown, Fats Domino. Fats wasn't singing rock back then, he was..."

March 19, 2004 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

Ray Manzarek: Trying to Set the World on Fire

The late Doors keyboardist at the Garden of Eden

"...Jerry Lee Lewis, piano player; Little Richard, piano player; Fats Domino! That was very influential on me...."

May 23, 2013 Music Post by Danielle Zelisko

La Onda Chicano

Tejano music, as a genre, might be on the ropes, but Sunny Ozuna – one of the genre's architects – is anything but

"...Tejano music. One place Ozuna found inspiration was in Fats Domino's boogie-woogie piano triplets rolling down U.S. 90 out..."

July 21, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Fats Domino / Little Richard

Record review

"...Fats Domino..."

Feb. 25, 2005 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

The Town Was Hoppin'

Austin's music scene of the Fifties lives on in Ray Campi

"...at City Coliseum on Barton Springs Road that featured Fats Domino, Buddy Holly & the Crickets, Chuck Berry, the..."

March 30, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Corcoran

Up From the Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music

Delightful if overstuffed musical history of the Crescent City

"...Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Mahalia Jackson, James Booker, Fats Domino, Cosimo Matassa, Preservation Jazz Hall Band, Professor Longhair,..."

May 15, 2020 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Boz Scaggs Doesn't Mean to Be Argumentative

The Texan parses blues, R&B, and rock & roll ahead of two Austin shows

"...burst of Fifties rock & roll – Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley. Tell him yes, but even "Lido..."

Oct. 19, 2018 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Learning the Game

Learning Buddy Holly's game, 203 tracks at a time

"...on Holly's screech ("yeeeooow"). The singer's boyish delivery of Fats Domino's "Blue Monday" blueprints Keith Richards' vocal approach to..."

Feb. 5, 2010 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Off the Record

Jesse Dayton walks with a Zombie, while T Bird & the Breaks spice things up for the annual Hot Sauce Festival

"...Fats Domino, This Is Fats Domino (1957)..."

Aug. 28, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

This Be an Empty World Without the Blues

Sometimes a sandwich – and its maker – is a hero

"...when the room was on fire, with anyone from Fats Domino to Otis Rush up on the bandstand –..."

May 26, 2006 Music Feature by Bill Bentley

Tell It Like It Is

Cyril Neville holds nothing back

"...tip of the chocolate-and-cream snowball. If Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino weren't central figures in ushering in the rock..."

April 28, 2006 Music Feature by Robert Gabriel

Page Two

Requiem for decency

"...from W.C. Handy, Lonnie Johnson, and Bessie Smith to Fats Domino, Dock Boggs, and Janis Joplin. One of the..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Ben Dickey on Being Blaze

Inspiration, fear, and the guiding hand of Vincent D'Onofrio

"...BD: Exactly. Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint, Bobby Charles, a bunch of these..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

A Browner Shade of Black

Blazing trails of Chicano soul

"...spot on the Chitlin Circuit. Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Ike & Tina Turner all played there, as..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...greats: Big Joe Turner, Cleanhead Vinson, Helen Humes, and Fats Domino. We even performed at Roseland Ballroom in NYC..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Riding With Bob

"...Tommy Allsup and Larry Franklin, former Wheel pianist Floyd Domino, fellow country/jazz master Lyle Lovett, top country stars Vince..."

Aug. 13, 1999 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

SXSW Film Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets a detailed but thin biography

"...potshots at figures as diverse as Alan Freed and Fats Domino. Worse, it reduces the barriers in his way..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance 2023 Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets his flowers in new documentary

"...potshots at figures as diverse as Alan Freed and Fats Domino. Worse, it reduces the barriers in his way..."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

ACL Interview: The Broad, Brilliant, Beautiful Musical Universe of Jon Batiste

"We take you on a journey through Black American music history, ragtime to trap."

"...school entertainment. We embraced the spirits of our ancestors: Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Allen Toussaint, Bo Diddley, and Chuck..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory

Departing Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez passes the reigns [sic] to Kevin Curtin with 10 anecdotes from 27 years.

"...the Washington Monument. I cried with supreme pride. Only Fats Domino prompted the same response years later at a..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

What we’re listening to

"...respectively – plus bassist to the stars Chuck Rainey (Fats Domino, Aretha Franklin), and a nearly session-stealing wringer. Thomas,..."

March 5, 2021 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Old Austin Magic: Uncle Walt’s Band Live

Performance archive reissued with bonus tracks

"...Ice House in a 1990 reunion show, laying down Fats Domino’s “Honest Papas Love Their Mamas Better.” Video comes..."

Jan. 18, 2021 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Recommended Live Music for the Weekend

Our picks from the usual onslaught of live music options

"...Sinegal lead a “SW Louisiana Swampede” sure to fête Fats Domino. The next day the celebration jets north to..."

July 6, 2018 Events Post by The Music Staff

2017 Music Critics Poll

Best roadshow, best new local acts, R.I.P.s, etc.

"...Cotton, Izzy Cox, Holger Czukay, Warrel Dane, Pat DiNizio, Fats Domino, Gordon Downie, Laurie Freelove, J. Geils, Grant Hart,..."

Dec. 29, 2017 Music Feature by Greg Beets

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