James Rivers

One of the World's 'Greatest Bagpipe Artist.'

A poster on my wall, fading a little now as a cherished possession from the 80s, is for a show at a long-vanished club on Claiborne Avenue. It loudly proclaims, with obligatory spelling mistake:

‘James Rivers: One of New Orleans Greatest Bagpipe Artist’.

James was, to my knowledge, the only man in New Orleans, indeed the entire world, who …