Crib Notes

For today’s Roll Call we call out singer/songwriter and New Orleans native Kelly Love Jones, who took the city’s open mic scene by storm over the past two years.

Who are you?
Kelly Love Jones: Musician, Artist, Mommy

Describe yourself in three words.
Honest, Loving, Peaceful

Who — dead or alive — would most you like to meet?
Dr. Jewel Pookrum

Who would you most like to slap in the face?
The person who invented religions.

What song (or songs) do you wish you had written?
Any song by Sade.

Fats Domino or Fats Waller?
Both

LP, CD or MP3?
LP

If you could start one trend, what would it be?
Unconditional Universal Love

If you could end one trend, what would it be?
I’d end the need for trends.

With whom would you most like to play a game of spin the bottle?
Do people still play this game?

Kelly Love Jones opens for Fertile Ground’s 10-year anniversary tour at Sugarhill. 9 p.m. Sat., Nov. 15. $20 advance. $25 at the door. 50 Upper Alabama Street. 404-658-0068. Advance tickets available at Moods Music, Marco’s Pita and Ticket Alternative.com.

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GRAYSON CAPPS is the epitome of a young-yet-weathered New Orleans folksy singer/songwriter, and not just because he appeared in the Crescent City-based flick A Love Song for Bobby Long. Capps’ old band Stavin’ Chain never made much noise outside of N.O., but recent solo albums that feature his emotionally gnarled voice singing compelling story songs about those with no place to go and little left to lose have justifiably attracted reams of critical praise. Although the troubadour often tours solo, his current group joins him Thurs., NOV. 8, to further heat things up. $8. 7 p.m. Smith’s Olde Bar, 1578 Piedmont Ave. 404-875-1522. www.smithsoldebar.com.

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In some ways, Oliver Morgan was like many of the other evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. Floodwaters from the levee breach in the Industrial Canal engulfed his Lower Ninth Ward home, and so he and his wife, Sylvia, went to stay in Atlanta where two of his five children lived. To Atlantans, he may have been just another evacuee who decided to make the city his new home. They even bought a house.

To New Orleans, he was better-known for his lone but huge 1964 R&B hit, “Who Shot the La La,” a curious take on the then-recent death of another New Orleans R&B star, Lawrence “Prince La La” Nelson. (Nelson actually died of a drug overdose, not a gunshot wound, but the song turns the death into a mystery.) Morgan himself passed away July 31 at the age of 74.

Morgan never matched the success of “Who Shot the La La,” a jaunty, syncopated tune filled with loads of local references but with a melody so catchy it became a favorite during Mardi Gras. He also became a fixture at Jazz Fest, often parading around in the New Orleans “second line” style, waving an umbrella and leading the crowd in a line.

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