Offbeat Cover for February, 2007

February 2007 Contents

Cover Story

Classic Songs of Louisiana: “Carnival Time”

Features

And The Winners Are…

The Best and the Brassiest?

BackTalk

Monk Boudreaux

OffBeat Eats

Cook Me Something, Mister

Dining Out: Dunbar’s

Fresh

Buckwheat and the Godfather

Do You Know…The Underdawgs?

Drinking on the Job

Stars Buy a Piece of History

Tent Sale

The Academy Honors Matassa

The Big Payback

Obituaries

Obituary: Dinerral Shavers (1981-2006)

Obituary: Frederick “Shep” Sheppard

Obituary: Vernell “Joe Gun” Joseph

Reviews

Anders Osborne, Tipitina’s Live 2006 (Munckmix)

Bonsoir, Catin, blues a catin (Bridgetown)

Charles Whitehead, Songs to Sing: The Charlie Whitehead Anthology 1970-76

Frank Wright, Unity (ESP-Disk)

Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue, Gal Holiday and the Honky Tonk Revue (HTR Records)

Jerry Lee Lewis, Last Man Standing (Artists First)

John Hammond, Push Comes To Shove (Back Porch)

John Lee Hooker, Hooker (Shout! Factory)

Michael Hurtt and His Haunted Hearts, Come Back To Louisiana (Allons)

Papa Mali, Do Your Thing (Fog City)

Richard Revue, Trademarks (Independent)

The New Orleans Bingo! Show, Vol. 1: Soft Emergencies (Independent)

The Weary Boys, Jumpin’ Jolie (Weary Boys)

Various Artists, Allons Boire un Coup: A Collection of Cajun and Creole Drinking Songs (Valcour)

Various Artists, Atlas Jazz Explosion (Empire Musicwerks)

Willis Prudhomme and the Zydeco Express, Living Legend (Zydeco Gumbo Records)

Bookmark

Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, Umpteen Ways of Looking at a Possum (Xavier Review Press)

Mojo Mouth

Laissez Le Bon Temps Rouler?

Live Wire

Alejandro Escovedo Duo, the Parish, January 19, 2007

Bob French with Harry Connick, Jr. and Branford Marsalis, Cafe Brasil, January 8, 2007

Letters

February 2007 Letters