If you are a New Orleans-based rock musician and want to record some non-original material, the music of Allen Toussaint is a good place to start. Jon Cleary may be English-born, but New Orleans has ...

Over dinner, Jon Cleary's manager posed a quasi-hypothetical question: If you could ever be tempted to record an album of someone else's songs, who would it be? Cleary considered, then reached a ...

Occapella is John Cleary’s superlative interpretation of the Allen Toussaint songbook.

For example, "Occapella" is a pitch perfect rendition of a song Toussaint had written for his long-time protege, Lee Dorsey. "Popcorn Pop Pop" and "What Do You Want the Girl to Do" are other examples ...