Offbeat Cover for February, 2004

February 2004 Contents

Cover Story

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achivement in Music Award: Eddie Bo

Features

2003 Best of the Beat Award Winners

An Ode to Carnival Joy

Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: Sylvester Francis

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Sideman Award: Smokey Johnson

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Business Award: Jim Russell

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Alvin Batiste

Best of the Beat Living Legend Award: Wardell Quezergue

BackTalk

Chris Owens

Obituaries

Obituary: Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen

Bayou Boogie

The Trouble with Zydeco

Blues Hound

Brown and Krown

Feed Me Something, Mister

A Farewell to Meat?

Jazzin'

The Stooges: Sweet on the Street

Reviews

Banu Gibson, Banu Gibson Sings Johnny Mercer (Swing Out)

Betsy McGovern, Revival of the Heart (Irish Bayou Music)

Betty Carter, Finest Hour (Verve)

Big Daddy O, Deranged Covers (Rabadash Records)

Charles Brown, A Life in the Blues (Rounder Records)

HardHeads, Hot and Humid (Independent)

Ivan Neville, Scrape (Compendia)

Jim Markway Quartet, Forward Motion (Independent)

Kenny Kleinpeter, Spirits of Highland (KM)

Kenny Neal/Billy Branch, Doubletake (Alligator)

Lil Fallay, Back 2 Basics (Lil Fallay Music)

Mangina, Why Live When You Can Die? (Independent)

Mark Murphy, Memories of You (Remembering Joe Williams) (High Note)

Members Only Band, Keeping It Simple (Lanor Records)

Merle Travis & Joe Maphis, Country Guitar Giants (CMH)

Merle Travis, In Boston 1959 (Rounder)

Nevertheless, Nevertheless (Independent)

New Orleans Jazz Vipers, Live on Frenchmen Street (Independent)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Shake That Thing (Preservation Hall Recordings)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Songs of New Orleans (Preservation Hall Recordings)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Preservation Hall Recordings)

Richard Carr, Momente Intimate (Rec’D Music)

Ryan Burrage, Toulouse Street Blues (Independent)

Sonny Rollins, The Bridge (Blue Bird)

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Sportin’ Life Blues (Proper Records)

Soulscript, Bleeding on Paper (Nobody Big)

Stooges, It’s About Time (Gruve)

Tangle Eye, Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey Remixed (Zoe Records/Rounder)

Tarbox Ramblers, A Fix Back East (Rounder Records)

The Holmes Brothers, Simple Truths (Alligator Records)

Various Artists, Come With Me To The Mardi Gras (Acadiana Records)

Various Artists, Mardi Gras Classics/New Orleans Party Gras (Louisiana Red Hot Records)

Various Artists, Swingbillies: Hillbilly and Western Swing On Modern/Colonial/Flair 1947-52 (Ace)

Bookmark

Rehabilitating Jelly Roll

Mojo Mouth

The Beat Generation

Live Wire

Dirty Mouth, Checkpoint Charlie, December 11, 2003

No Tears for Rio

Letters

Letters February 2004