Offbeat Cover for January, 1997

January 1997 Contents

Cover Story

Cajun Trailblazers-20 Years of BeauSoleil

Features

1996 Best of the Beat Awards

Jimmy Breaux: Keeping the Dancehall Beat

Meet Jerry Brock: A Man in Demand

The Best of 1996

BackTalk

Boozoo Chavis

Dis 'n' Dat

NO/LA Music Calendar, a Rock ‘n’ Bowl Recording Session & the Music Commission Calls for an End to the Amusement Tax

Bluesworthy

The 1996 Top Ten Blues List

Dirty Rice

Learn “Le Hoogie Boogie;” International Art; Cajun Catering

Eye Music

Happy Birthday CAC

Fat City

Sushi at Toyama and Ninja

Feedback

A Rhudabega Record in the Works, A Few CD Releases and Final Year-End Bits

Film & Video Bits

The Top Ten of 1996 (and the Worst)

Grapevine

Jay Gallagher Marks 20 Years with Ultrasonic Studios, Inc.

Plugged In

Best of the Internet, 1996

Straight, No Chaser

New Orleans Jazz Goes National; Kermit Ruffins Big Band Back in Full Swing

Street

Bounce Music & WAR

Talkin' 'bout New Orleans

Gary Edwards’ Sound of New Orleans & The Hot-Selling “Bill”

Reviews

Frank Zappa, Lather (Ryko)

Harry Skoler, Reflections on the Art of Swing (Brownstone)

Johnny Cash, Unchained (American)

Lil’ Alfred, Dealin’ with the Feelin’ (JIN)

Bookmark

First Time Writers

Letters

Letters January 1997