The unrivaled Soul Queen of New Orleans — a title officially bestowed by regional officials, believe it or not — Irma Thomas ranks among Crescent City R&B’s greatest & most enduring music ambassadors, under no circumstances enjoying the coast-to-coast commercial success of contemporaries like Aretha Franklin and Etta James but …

Known mainly (if) in the us for doing the initial version of “Everything’s Alright” (included in David Bowie about his Pin Ups album), the Mojos were one of the better Liverpool sets of the English Invasion. Besides “Everything’s Alright” — a high Ten raver within the U.K. — they under …