Last week, the members of BeauSoleil received their Grammy awards while on tour. David Doucet brought his boxed, unopened Grammy home to New Orleans on a flight with members of Dr. John’s band including Herman Ernest and John Fohl, both of whom wanted him to open the box. They won a Grammy for Dr. John’s City That Care Forgot, but they had yet to receive the statues yet.

He held out and instead brought the box to the Milan Lounge and Ryan, the bartender who first told him he’d won the Grammy for Best Cajun or Zydeco album. When they finally hauled out the trophy, they found it was awarded to “BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet” as instead of the preferred “BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet.” Evidently when MunckMix released the album, they did so using “with,” and since the CD was nominated without the band’s knowledge – David hadn’t even heard it until last December after it was nominated, and once he did, he remixed it – they didn’t get a chance to correct the billing.

The Grammy Uptown tour ended up in the Kingpin, where he texted me to let me know the Grammy was there because I told him he didn’t win after the L.A. Times incorrectly Twittered that the award went to Steve Riley. For the rest of the evening, he and the Grammy posed for photos until the Grammy was tired and needed a bite and a bed.