Offbeat Cover for October, 2007

October 2007 Contents

Cover Story

Down on the Corner

Features

Intensity or Surprise

Just Joking: A New Orleans Halloween Carol

Mutemath: The Name Game

Rotary Downs’ American Roots

Voodoo Fest: How Do You Voodoo?

BackTalk

AC Newman

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Luke

Fragile History

Fresh

A Bright Idea

A New Boo

Declaration of Independents

Festival, Festival!

For the Love of Culture

Go By Your MOMS and ‘Em

Irma Honored

Read a Book!

Words on Film

Obituaries

Obituary: Goodbye to Matthew Cormier

Obituary: Wilson “Willie Tee” Turbinton

Reviews

“The Sleeping Giant” James Winfield, Lonely Lonely Nights (Southland)

Adam Levy, Washing Day (Lost Wax)

Anders Osborne, Coming Down (M.C. Records)

Arbor Vitae, Arbor Vitae (Redamp)

Aretha Franklin, Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (Atlantic/Rhino)

Audry’s Old Bed, Tragedy on Dogpound Road (Independent)

Big Blue Marble, Natchez (Independent)

Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy, Cornell 1964 (Blue Note)

Christian Scott, Anthem (Concord Jazz)

Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble, Nothin Feels Like This (Louisiana Soul)

Dennis Alcapone, Forever Version (Heartbeat)

Dennis Stroughmatt and Creole Stomp, Long Roads and Bloodshot Eyes (Swallow)

Joe Henry, Civilians (Anti-)

Lone Ranger, On the Other Side of Dub (Heartbeat)

Lost Bayou Ramblers, Live: a la Blue Moon (Swallow)

Mark Murphy, Love Is What It Says (Verve)

Michelle Shocked, ToHeavenURide (Mighty Sound)

Omar Kent Dykes and Jimmie Vaughan, On the Jimmy Reed Highway (Ruf)

Red Stick Ramblers, Made in the Shade (Sugar Hill)

Settly, Settly (More Recordings)

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, 100 Days and 100 Nights (Daptone)

The Firecracker Jazz Band, Firecracker Jazz Band Explodes (Euphonian)

The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama, Singing Songs of Praise (CaseQuarter)

Various Artists, Summer Records Anthology: 1974-1988 (Light in the Attic)

Various Artists, Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection (Shout! Factory)

Various Artists, Wattstax (Stax)

William Parker’s Raining on the Moon, Corn Meal Dance (Aum Fidelity)

Young Marble Giants, Colossal Youth (Domino)

Zap Mama, Supermoon (Heads Up International)

Bookmark

Gayle F. Wald, Shout, Sister, Shout! The Untold Story of Rock and Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Beacon)

John Sinclair, Guitar Army

Mojo Mouth

All That Jazz

Letters

October 2007 Letters