Offbeat Cover for May, 2007

May 2007 Contents

Cover Story

Mac’s Wild Years

Features

2007 Jazz Fest from A-Z

Bobby Charles: Better Days

Bobby Charles: I Write the Songs

Classic Songs of Louisiana: “Suzie Q”

Every Accordion a King

Fest Focus: Big Al Carson

Fest Focus: Brian Jack

Fest Focus: Calexico

Fest Focus: Don Rich

Fest Focus: Henry Butler

Fest Focus: Jon Cleary

Fest Focus: Judith Owen

Fest Focus: Kirk Joseph’s Backyard Groove

Fest Focus: Marcia Ball

Fest Focus: Tom McDermott

Fest Focus: Tony Joe White

Fest Focus: World Saxophone Group

Music to My Eyes

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: Barbara Lynn

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: Dan Penn

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: Kenny Brown

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: Roky Erickson

The Pages of History

BackTalk

Billy Gibbons

OffBeat Eats

Behind the Green Flap

Dining Out: Mat and Naddie’s

Eight is Enough

Fresh

A Brand New Baby Boy

A Sacred Place

Back to Basics

Lost in the Flood

Pass It On

The Band in the Hall

The Future’s Future

The Gang’s All Here

The Muddy Road

You Don’t Have to Live Like a NOLAfugee

Obituaries

Obituary: Keith “Deacon Johnson” Moore

Reviews

Amanda Walker, Amanda Walker (Rabadash)

Andy Pizzo Project, Bouncin’ (O-Zip)

Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Security (Anti-)

Bodesattva, Arrival (1718)

Canned Heat, Canned Heat Live at Montreux (DVD) (Eagle Vision)

Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Gate’s On the Heat (Maison de Blues)

Clifton Chenier, Frenchin’ the Boogie (Maison de Blues)

Dale Watson, From the Cradle to the Grave (Hyena)

Don Montoucet et ses amis, Legendary Cajun Accordionist (Swallow Records)

Don’t Look Back: 65 Tour Deluxe Edition (Docurama DVD)

Dumpstaphunk, Listen Hear (Independent)

Ingrid Lucia & the Flying Neutrinos, Don’t Stop (Independent)

JJ Grey & Mofro, Country Ghetto (Alligator Records)

James Blood Ulmer, Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions (Hyena)

James Booker, Manchester ’77 (Document)

Joe Krown Trio, Old Friends (Joe Krown)

John Prine & Mac Wiseman, Standard Songs for Average People (Oh Boy)

Johnnie Taylor, Live at the Summit Club (Stax)

Jon Cleary, Do Not Disturb (Independent)

Kermit Ruffins, Live at Vaughan’s (Basin Street Records)

Kings of Leon, Because of the Times (RCA)

Koko Taylor, Old School (Alligator)

Lucinda Williams, West (Lost Highway)

Matt Lemmler, Music of New Orleans (Independent)

Matt Perrine, Sunflower City (Independent)

Memphis Slim & Buddy Guy, Southside Reunion (Maison de Blues)

New Orleans Rhythm Conspiracy, Dancing Ground (Independent)

Papa Grows Funk, Mr. Patterson’s Hat (Funky Krewe)

Slade, In for a Penny: Raves and Faves (Shout! Factory)

T-Bone Walker, Good Feelin’ (Maison de Blues)

Telefon Tel Aviv, Remixes Compiled (Hefty)

The Holmes Brothers, State of Grace (Alligator)

The Other Planets, Eightballs in Angola (Independent)

The Soul of John Black, The Good Girl Blues (Cadabra)

Tom McDermott, Live in Paris (STR Digital)

U-Ka, Live at Snug Harbor (Independent)

Uncle Monk, Uncle Monk (Airday)

Various Artists, Black Snake Moan Soundtrack (New West)

Vin Bruce, Garden of Love (Spoon)

Watermelon Slim and the Workers, The Wheel Man (Northern Blues)

Wynton Marsalis, From the Plantation to the Penitentiary (Blue Note)

Mojo Mouth

Good News, Bad News

Letters

May 2007 Letters