Deacon John Moore is talking about his new CD, Live At The 1994 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and reflecting on his career in the spacious kitchen of his renovated camel back in Uptown New Orleans, a house which doubles as his residence and his band's rehearsal space.

One of the two phones on his antique/thrift store porcelain table rings and he grabs it on the second ring. "Yeah baby," says Moore with a trace of caution in his voice. [Pause] "Oh yeah, I remember those ...