The recipient for Best of the Beat 2018 Lifetime Achievement in Music Award goes to Walter “Wolfman” Washington. The beloved blues guitarist and vocalist’s career spans for over five decades, and through the years, the Wolfman has become a pillar of New Orleans music. Watch his peers celebrate the life and music of Wolfman.

Shot and edited by Noé Cugny and Catie Sanders.

Look up John Swenson’s January 2019 Cover Story in OffBeat Magazine.