Offbeat Cover for June, 2006

June 2006 Contents

Cover Story

Dinner Music

Features

Back to the Fest

Classic Songs of Louisiana: “The Things That I Used to Do”

The Scotch Guard

BackTalk

Neil Portnow

Fresh

BeauSoleil Comes Alive…Again!

Cooking with Mulate’s

Do You Know…Jesse McBride?

OffBeat Jazz Fest Louisiana Top 10

Online Duets

Stompin’ at the Savoy Faire

The White Stripes Minus One?

Twilight in New Orleans

Reviews

Alejandro Escovedo, The Boxing Mirror (Back Porch)

Alexander Scott, Spring (Independent)

BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet, Live in Louisiana (Way Down in Louisiana)

Black 47, Bittersweet 16 (Gadfly)

Cedric Watson and Corey Ledet, Goin’ Down to Louisiana (Valcour)

Disco Biscuits, The Wind at Four to Fly (Dig)

Donna Angelle & the Zydeco Posse, Workin’ It (MTE)

Duke Robillard, Guitar Groove-A-Rama (Stoney Plain)

Elmore James, Blues After Hours (Ace)

Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint, The River in Reverse (Verve Forecast)

Elvis Costello, My Flame Burns Blue (Deustche Grammophon)

Gregg Martinez, Big Bad Daddy (Seaul)

Hamell On Trial, Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs (Righteous Babe

Harry Shearer, Now You See it (DVD), Dropping Anchors (Courgette)

Jon Dee Graham, Full (Freedom)

Junior Brown, The Austin Experience (Telarc)

L’Angelus, Ca C’est Bon! (Cajun)

Leslie Smith, Feel Me (Rough Cut)

Morning 40 Federation, Ticonderoga (M80)

Pilate, Caught By the River (Wrangled)

Quamon Fowler, The Vision (Continuum)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Brotherman in the Fatherland (Live in Germany 1972) (Hyena)

Rhythm & Groove Club, Groove Approved (Asend Music)

Richard Thompson, RT: The Life and Music of Richard Thompson (Free Reed)

Shawn Mullins, 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor (Vanguard

The Derek Trucks Band, Songlines (Columbia)

The Radiators, Dreaming Out Loud (Croaker)

Theresa Anderson, Theresa Anderson (Basin Street)

Thomas “”Big Hat”" Fields, Foot Stompin’ Zydeco (Mardi Gras)

Van Morrison, Pay the Devil (Lost Highway)

Various Artists, Atlas Blues Explosion (Empire Musicwerks)

Various Artists, Feeder Bands on the Run (Independent)

Various Artists, I am the Resurrection: a Tribute to John Fahey (Vanguard)

Various Artists, Still Standin’: 25 Years of New Orleans Roots Music (Rabadash)

Wess “Warmdaddy” Anderson, Space (Independent)

Mojo Mouth

What’s Important

Letters

June 2006 Letters