Jimmy Anselmo, this year’s Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in Music Business, has spent his lifetime in the music business. After serving on the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Saratoga, and getting discharged from the Navy in 1965, his first job back in New Orleans was the bartender working the 3 a.m. graveyard shift at Papa Joe’s on Bourbon Street.

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