Offbeat Cover for September, 2005

September 2005 Contents

Cover Story

Ghost Music: Shannon McNally

Features

Confessions of a Stripper

From the Archive: Bela Fleck

Gentlemen Prefer…: An OffBeat Exploration of French Quarter Strip Clubs

Jay Farrar of Son Volt

We Were Only Freshmen

BackTalk

Robert Mercurio

Dis 'n' Dat

Narcissism

Alt NO

Crystallizing Jhelisa

Bayou Boogie

Playing Right

Jazzin'

Warmdaddy’s Home

St. Rock

Maidenhead Voyage

Reviews

Antarctica Vs. The World, Grave New World (Tent City Records)

B.G., The Heart of tha Streetz, Vol. 1 (Koch Records)

Bobby Lounge, I Remember the Night Your Trailer Burnt Down (Abitian)

Burke Ingraffia, Independence Louisiana (Caleo)

Crispin Schroeder, Move (Spring)

Dash Rip Rock, Re-Cyclone (Alternative Tentacles)

Garage a Trois, Music from the Film Outre Mer (Telarc)

Hi-Fi Sky, Music for Synchronized Swimming in Space (Seersucker Fantasy)

Jimmy “T99″ Nelson, The Legend (Independent)

Joe Newman Quintet, At Count Basie’s (Verve)

Jonathan Batiste, Times in New Orleans (Independent)

Little Milton, Think of Me (Telarc)

Maceo Parker, School’s In! (BHM Productions)

Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal, The Buena Vista Social Club presents Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal (Nonesuch)

Maria Muldaur, Louisiana Love Call (Shout! Factory)

Maria Muldaur, Meet Me at Midnite (Shout! Factory)

Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth (Interscope)

North Mississippi Allstars, Electric Blue Watermelon (ATO Records)

Panorama Jazz Band, Panoramaland (Independent)

Phil deGruy, Just Duet (Heard Instinct)

Son Volt, Okemah and The Melody of Piot (Transmit Sound/Legacy)

Terence Higgins and Swampgrease, In the Bywater (Independent)

The BoDeans, Homebrewed: Live from the Pabst (Back Porch)

The Gold Standard, Square (Independent)

Uncle Fucker, Usurpers of the Tradition (Independent)

Various Artists, American Folk (Putumayo)

Various Artists, Italian Cafe (Putumayo)

Various Artists, North African Groove (Putumayo)

Watyr, Meditation (H20)

Willie Nelson, Countryman (Lost Highway)

Wynton Marsalis, Amongst the People: Live at the House of Tribes (Blue Note)

Zydepunks, …And the Streets Will Flow with Whiskey (Independent)

Mojo Mouth

Dear Landlord

Live Wire

Extra Action Marching Band, Rubalad “Rumpus Room”, Brooklyn and Knitting Factory, Manhattan, July 31 – August 1, 2005

Freddy Omar con su Banda, Ray’s Over the River, June 25, 2005

Harry Anderson in Wise Guy, Oswald’s Speakeasy, August 3, 2005

Le Tigre, House of Blues, July 30, 2005

Lila Downs, SummerStage, New York, New York, July 31, 2005

Satchmo Summerfest Times Three

The Radiators, House of Blues, Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 17, 2005

Letters

Letters September 2005