Offbeat Cover for January, 2005

January 2005 Contents

Cover Story

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music: Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown

Features

Best of the Beat Bourbon Street Award: Big Al Carson

Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: Albinas Prizgintas

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Larry McKinley

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Mercedes Tucker Stamps

Best of the Beat Nominees

Best of the Beat Sideman of the Year: Chuck Badie

Top 50 Louisiana CDs of 2004

BackTalk

Frankie Ford

Dis 'n' Dat

The Sound of Silence

Alt NO

C’mon Get Happy

Bayou Boogie

No Longer The Cajun Susan Lucci

Feed Me Something, Mister

Raw, Smoked and Thin

Jazzin'

A Batiste in New York

St. Rock

Devil’s Music

Reviews

Big Chief Alfred Doucette, Marie Comin’ Out (Independent)

Big Joe Williams, I Got Wild (Delmark)

Charles Leman, It’s Not Over! (Hatchet Records)

Charlie Haden, Land of the Sun (Verve)

Coco Robicheaux, Yeah, U Rite! (Spiritland)

D. Landry and the Dirty Cajuns, Keep What’s Left (Independent)

Dave Holland, Selected Recordings (ECM)

Fatter Than Albert, Most Poets Do (Independent)

Furry Lewis and Bukka White, Party! At Home (Arcola Records)

JW-Jones Blues Band, My Kind Of Evil (Northern Blues)

Javier Gutierrez and Vivaz, Latin Caravan (Independent)

John Leger and Debris Cajun Band, Do You Know How It Feels? (Swallow Records)

Kermit Ruffins, Putumayo Presents Kermit Ruffins (Putumayo World Music)

Kurt Brunus, Horny and Saxy (Swamp Island Records)

Lil’ Bob and the Lollipops, I Got Loaded (La Louisianne Records)

Luciana Souza, Neruda (Sunnyside)

Quintin Gerard W., Fnkysax (O.T.S.)

Rick Tobey, Chickenhead Blues (Louisiana Red Hot Records)

Savoy-Michot Cajun Band, L’Autre Bord de L’Eu (Independent)

Selfinflicted, Selfinflicted (Independent)

Sonny Landreth, Grant Street (Sugar Hill)

Tha Nu Jaz Orda, Second Line Hip-Hop (Mardi Gras Records)

Various Artists, Putumayo Presents New Orleans (Putumayo World Music)

Various Artists, The Best of Abita Springs Opry Volume One (Independent)

Various Artists, The Best of Abita Springs Opry Volume Two (Independent)

Wayne Shorter, Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter (Columbia)

Mojo Mouth

The Cult

Live Wire

Captured! By Robots, the Parish

The Southern Jezebelles, One Eyed Jacks

Letters

Letters January 2005