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May 2008 Letters

JOHNNY SKETCH I hope you don’t mind an honest critique of a CD review from last month. I couldn’t be more disappointed in one of your writers for trashing Johnny […]

April 2008 Letters

SUSAN COWSILL Gosh that was sweet (albeit bittersweet) to read Susan Cowsill’s cover story in March issue. I caught her for the first time at Louisiana Music Factory a couple […]

March 2008 Letters

BEST OF THE BEAT Terrance and I want to thank you for your love and commitment to Louisiana music culture and history. We are both deeply honored and humbled by […]

February 2008 Letters

NOD TO HIS ELDERS The Shamarr review in OffBeat of his CD was a real snub and after he took out a full page ad in the magazine as well. […]

January 2008 Letters

20 WHO MATTERED I really can’t argue with your choices, even though I have not listened to all of them (which I plan to do before Jazz Fest ’08), since […]

December 2007 Letters

“I hope his music and non-profit organization “Voice of the Wetlands” moves enough Americans to use their voices and votes to facilitate the implementation of solutions to save our swamps.”—Jean […]

November 2007 Letters

GREAT CD BUT NO BOOTH Thank you for the 2006 OffBeat CD sampler. You compiled a great CD with a nice overview of the New Orleans music scene A.K. (after […]

October 2007 Letters

AHEAD OF MANY As much as you [Jan Ramsey] seem to struggle (both pre and post Katrina) to urge a city/state to do what is obvious to all music lovers—develop […]

September 2007 Letters

FRENCHMEN AND BOURBON I read your [Jan Ramsey] latest “Mojo Mouth” and for the most part agree with you. Frenchmen Street is a much more interesting destination musically than Bourbon […]

August 2007 Letters

NORTH RAMPART STREET As editor of OffBeat, Jan Ramsey is understandably a music advocate, but her focus on North Rampart is misplaced, and she is flat wrong about French Quarter […]