April 2009
BackTalk
- Charlie Louvin
As one half of the most successful duo in country music history—the Louvin Brothers—Charlie Louvin began performing on the Grand Ole…
Bookmark
- Jeff Kaliss, I Want to Take You Higher: The Life and Times of Sly and the Family Stone/Eddie Santiago, Sly: The Lives of Sylvester Stewart and Sly Stone
For those who tuned in late, Sly and the Family Stone released seven essential albums, from 1967’s A Whole New Thing…
Cover Story
- Paul Sanchez: Musician, Heal Thyself
“I hadn’t tuned a guitar in years.” For years, someone handed Paul Sanchez a tuned guitar when he walked onstage with…
Features
- FQF: A-Z: F.Q.F IQ
There’s a lot going on during the French Quarter Festival, and it takes a big brain to keep track of it… - LA Festivals: Further On Up the Road
- Jeff Albert: The Company You Keep
In 1986, jazz critic Stanley Crouch wrote, “the vast majority of those who were considered avant-garde twenty years ago represented the… - Feufollet: No More Kid Stuff
Though the Grammy infrastructure may have overlooked one of the deepest Cajun music releases of 2008—Feufollet’s Cow Island Hop—the sextet of… - Iko Iko: In Search of Jockomo
One afternoon, 1965, the three Louisianan sisters/cousins who gave you “Chapel of Love,” unaware that the studio’s tapes were still rolling,…
Fresh
- It Takes Two
New Orleans Duets, Tom McDermott’s new album, was over five years in the making. The album is a collection of duets… - Zydeco Everywhere But Here
A radio station in Switzerland features Donna Angelle’s music. A promoter in Brazil is anxious to work with her. Angelle’s travel… - Good News
It was nice to see former OffBeat contributor and WWOZ DJ John Sinclair back in town for the funerals of Snooks… - A Decade in the Square
This spring, the Young Leadership Council celebrates 10 years of Wednesday at the Square. April 1 kicks off the new season… - Little Po-Boys
Although not originally sprung from the swamp of Louisiane nor any true rose of Spanish Harlem, Los Po-Boy-Citos are stirring up… - It Takes Two
New Orleans Duets, Tom McDermott’s new album, was over five years in the making. The album is a collection of duets… - Another Troubled Street
For the better part of a decade, Frenchmen Street has become the hot spot for locals and music savvy tourists tired…
Letters
- April 2009 Letters
EARLY & SMOKE FREE I took particular interest in Jim Markway’s letter to the editor in March’s issue discussing the lack…
Mojo Mouth
- Festival Month Is Here
We’re gearing up for beaucoup festivals again, most notably the 26th annual French Quarter Festival and the 40th annual New Orleans…
Obituaries
- Obituary: Antoinette K-Doe, The Mother-in-Law's Mother
[Early Mardi Gras morning, Antoinette K-Doe passed away after a heart attack. Since editor Alex Rawls wrote about Antoinette and the…
OffBeat Eats
Dining Out
Reviews
- Kenny Cornett and Killin' Time, Flat Feet (CSP)
Like a lot of swamp poppers, Kenny Cornett and Killin’ Time hardly do any original material—only one in their entire 19-year-existence.… - Andrew Duhon, Songs I Wrote Before I Knew You (Independent)
I’m not sure I believe in Andrew Duhon the songwriter, whose imagery, tropes and sentiments will feel familiar to anyone who… - Briggs Brown and the Bayou Cajuns, Vieille Memories - Bon Temps (Independent)
As promised, bassist Robbie Robertson continues to document the progress of 11-year-old Guyland Leday. The zydeco phenom’s third overall disc and… - Guyland Leday and Friends Zydeco Band, Welcome to My World (Shrimpo)
As promised, bassist Robbie Robertson continues to document the progress of 11-year-old Guyland Leday. The zydeco phenom’s third overall disc and… - Clint Maedgen + 9, Open Restraints (Independent)
Clint Maedgen can play sax, clarinet, piano and sing. He has conceived of numerous intelligent, provocative musical acts including (but not… - Ben Hunter, Traveler (Awareness)
Traveler evokes a less ambitious Wyclef Jean, but that’s a good thing. Ben Hunter’s modest, acoustic guitar-driven songs with gentle Island… - Monk Hazel and his New Orleans Jazz Kings, Monk Hazel and his New Orleans Jazz Kings (GHB)
Drummer Monk Hazel gazes forlornly from the cover of this reissue, pants hiked up to his dadderies, with a luscious silk… - Sasha Masakowski, Musical Playground (Independent)
Jazz female vocalist albums send up all kinds of red flags. Too many seem to be about persona, or revisit standards… - Lloyd Price, Lloyd Rocks (Bear Family)
Because Lloyd Price left New Orleans early in his career for the greener financial and musical pastures of New York, he’s… - Cyril Neville, Brand New Blues (M.C.)
You might expect Cyril Neville’s first post-Katrina album to comment on his trials since then, but the only lines that could… - Leroy Jones, Sweeter than a Summer Breeze (Spirit of New Orleans)
In 2005 during a joint interview with Kermit Ruffins and Maurice Brown, Irvin Mayfield noted that the best trumpet cutting session… - Tom McDermott, New Orleans Duets (Rabadash)
At this year’s James Booker tribute during the Best of the Beat awards, Tom McDermott turned in what I thought was…
