Offbeat Cover for February, 1994

February 1994 Contents

Cover Story

Carnival Tales

Features

Bourbon Street Costume Awards: Show Me Something, uh…Mister?

Isaac Tigrett: Blues Brother

Street Talk with Tootie Montana

Dis 'n' Dat

Another Artist Scores with Song on Evangeline Album; Nocentelli Quits Meters

Caribbeanna

A Batch of Releases Document the Soca Music of Carnival in the Islands

Crescent City Bounce

Bars Fill with Mardi Gras Indians; Legendary Drummer Smokey Johnson Saluted

Eye Music

Douglas Bourgeois’ Dense Paintings Tell Tales of the Louisiana-Gothic Mindscape

Film & Video Bits

Shadowlands, Heaven & Earth and Some OffBeat Things at the Video Store

Street

Rappers Unite to Benefit Arts Center; Gregory D Gets Da Boot

Strictly Jazz

Brass Bands Form Coalition, Plan March; Vital Organs Back For Encore

Ten West

Mamou Girds Itself For Mardi Gras; Zydeco People’s Choice Awards Handed Out

Reviews

John Hammond, Trouble No More (Pointblank)

Professor Longhair, Fess: The Professor Longhair Anthology (Rhino)

Silver Leaf Jazz Band, Streets and Scenes of New Orleans: A Portrait in Jazz of the Big Easy (Good Time Jazz)

Steady Rollin’ Bob Margolin, Down in the Alley (Alligator)

The Bingemen, Motor in the Ocean (Muthafunti Music)

Live Wire

Lemonheads and Redd Kross, New Orleans Entertainment Hall, December 16, 1993

Rush, UNO Lakefront Arena, January 23, 1994

Letters

Letters February 1994