Vaughan's Lounge has been a fixture of the Bywater neighborhood since 1959, a small corner bar that has served as the neighborhood's living room through decades of change. It is not a pretty room — the decor is functional at best — but it has a soul that most venues would trade everything they own to possess.
Kermit Ruffins held a long-running Thursday night residency at Vaughan's for years — cooking red beans and rice outside on the sidewalk and playing a full set of jazz and brass band music inside — until August 2013, when Corey Henry took over the Thursday night tradition with the Treme Funktet.
