November 1999
BackTalk
- Ben Harper
As Ben Harper sings on the title track of his latest release, Burn To Shine, "How I miss the good old…
Bluesworthy
- Chris Vincent: Blues from Bayonne
When New Jersey's Courier-News awarded Chris Vincent "Best Blues Artist" for its "Makin' Waves" awards back in March, the paper exhorted…
Bookmark
- Bear With Us
Bear Family Records is doing the Lord’s work. The German reissue label has decided there are no country, rockabilly or soul…
Chassez De Faim
Cover Story
- Tab Benoit: Fish Don't Just Jump In Your Boat
Tab Benoit becomes his own man, finally. Tab's fifth CD, The Blues Are All Mine, is his first studio release in…
Dis 'n' Dat
- Vitamin L
Kateri Yager, formerly the Label Development Marketing Director for the now-defunct Big Easy Distributing Company, is a woman with a mission.…
Features
- Kipori "Baby Wolf" Woods: Baby Wolf at the Gate
Young, handsome, black, hard-working, innovative, has a respect for tradition, oozes stage presence- Guitarist Kipori "Baby Wolf” Woods seems to have… - Little Freddie King: He's Lived the Blues
Perhaps because it is often mentioned as the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans isn't often mentioned as a hotbed for blues.… - Now He's a Man Way Past 21: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Grows Up
Kenny Wayne Shepherd may not have lived a full bluesman's life yet, or much of a life at all, since he's… - Los Hombres Calientes Heat It Up
With a second, impressive release, Los Hombres Calientes proves the band’s multicultural agenda is no flash in the pan. As the… - B.B. Major: The Blues Major
Although B.B. Major is 62 years old, he is just starting to make a name for himself in the field of… - 10 Years Ago in OffBeat: November
"You'd be surprised," Harry Connick, Jr. told interviewer Camille Barker ten years ago when asked about his fans. "I get a… - Land of a Thousand Clubs: Mr. B's Lounge
Mr B’s Lounge, located at 4300 Washington Avenue in a building that formerly housed the Bank of New Orleans, is one… - OffBeat Tracks: Chuck Carbo
Producer Dave Bartholomew has declared that "Chuck Carbo had the best voice to come out of New Orleans in the last…
Feedback
Know What It Means
Letters
- Letter November 1999
THE INSANE SUPER-RICH Let me see if I have this straight, Ms. Ronstadt: Dump the televisions and computers in the alley,…
Mojo Mouth
- Whose "Quality of Life"??...Lagniappe for Subscribers
Okay, my usual rant this month on local government being "anti-music"--but with a twist towards a potentially positive result. On Saturday…
Rhythm Method
Sauce Piquante
Straight, No Chaser
- Jazz Dreams
First there was the Civil War TV series and then there was Baseball, offering an epic glimpse into the great American…
Talkin' 'bout New Orleans
Reviews
- Muddy Waters, Folk Singer (MCA/Chess)
- Muddy Waters, The Lost Tapes (Blind Pig)
- Odetta, Best of the Vanguard Years (Vanguard)
- Odetta, Blues Everywhere I Go (M.C. Records)
- Guitar Vic and the Slicktones featuring Debbie Davis, Now Get Over It (GV)
- Freddy Fender, Lone Star: The Very Best of Freddy Fender (Music Club)
- Lightnin' Slim, The Best of Lightnin' Slim (Hip-O)
- Buddy Miller, Cruel Moon (Hightone)
- Hawg Jaw, Believe Nothing (Independent)
- Brown Sox, Lucky!?@#13!?!? (Independent)
- Santeria, Golar Wash (Independent)
- Tony Bennett, Hot and Cool-Bennett Sings Ellington (Sony/Columbia)
- Fats Domino, Fats Is Back (Bullseye)
- Various Artists, Back to the Big Easy: Music from New Orleans (DCC Compact Classics)
- Veloka, Demo Tape (Independent)
- Murali Coryell, 2120 (CZYZ Records)
- Hotchkiss, Hotchkiss (Turducken/Root Beer Extract Records)
- Patricia Barder, Companion (Premonition/Blue Note)
- Wynton Marsalis, Mr. Jelly Lord (Sony)
- Jeff "Tain" Watts, Citizen Tain (Columbia)
- Eric Reed, Manhattan Melodies (Verve)
- Jimmy Donley, The Crazy Cajun Recordings (Edsel Records)
- Scott Keeton and the Deviants, 100 Mile Blues (JSP Records)
- Clay Moore, Meeting Standards (Viewpoint)
- Ray MacCarty, Mood Swing (Viewpoint)
- Arthur Adams, Back On Track (Blind Pig)
- Eddie Martin Band, Fires and Floods (Blueblood)
- Silas Hoga/Arthur "Guitar" Kelly, Louisiana Swamp Blues-Volume 6 (Wolf)
- Vince Converse, One Step Ahead (Mystic Music)
- Profyle, Whispers In The Dark (Motown)
- Moby, Play (V2 Records)
- Various Artists, Living Country Blues-A Three-CD Boxed Set Anthology (Evidence)
- Zydeco Warriors featuring T-Broussard, Party Time (Louisiana Red Hot)
- Seven, Seven (Gris Gris Records)
- One, One (One Music)
- Joe Louis Walker, Silvertone Blues (Blue Thumb Records)
- Louisiana Red, Millennium Blues (Earwig)
- Little Milton, Welcome To Little Milton (Malaco)
- Invisible Cowboy, Live at the Brown Door (Balance)
- Joyce Cooling, Keeping Cool (Heads Up)
- Rebirth Brass Band, The Main Event: Live at the Maple Leaf (Louisiana Red Hot)
- Brian Hughes, Shakin' Not Stirred (Higher Octave Jazz)
- Mason Ruffner, You Can't Win (Burnside)
- Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials, Get Wild! (Alligator)
- File', Hang on to Your Chapeau (Cajun Creole Music)
- Mighty Sam McClain, Soul Survivor: The Best of Mighty Sam McClain (Audioquest Music)
- Mando and The Chili Peppers, On The Road With Rock 'n' Roll (Ace Records)
- Jimmy "T-99" Nelson, Rockin' And Shoutin' The Blues (Bullseye)
- The Flying Neutrinos, I'd Rather Be in New Orleans (Artists Only! Records)
- Various Artists, Whole Lotta Blues: Songs of Led Zeppelin (House of Blues Music)
- Paul Rishell and Annie Raines, Moving To The Country (Tone Cool)
- Various Artists, Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles, 1921-1956 (Rhino)
- Kid Ory, The Complete Kid Ory Verve Sessions (Mosaic)
