Offbeat Cover for December, 2007

December 2007 Contents

Cover Story

George Porter, Jr.: My World and Welcome to It

Features

In the Rearview Mirror

Mary Gauthier: The Road Home

What’s My Second Line?: Twelve Steps in a New Orleans Tradition

BackTalk

Judith Owen and Harry Shearer

OffBeat Eats

A Southern Review

Dining Out: Cafe Freret

Fresh

Absolut Rebuilding

Buck Plays Bob

Caroling in the Cathedral

Ronnie Kole Honored

The Beauty of the Boswells

The Nevilles Return

Will Panel for Recovery

Reviews

Mary Gauthier, Between Daylight and Dark (Lost Highway)

Ani DiFranco, Canon (Righteous Babe)

Bettye Lavette, The Scene of the Crime (Anti-)

Borbetomagus, Live in Allentown (Agaric)

Bruce Hornsby, Christian McBride, Jack DeJohnette, Camp Meeting (Sony Legacy)

Captain Coconut, Shoop! (Captain Coconut1234)

D.C. Sills, Better When I’m Loved (Independent)

Derrick Freeman, It Is What It Is (Independent)

Esquizito, Vol. 4: Come Rain, Come Shine (Maison Musique)

Gravity A, Naissance (Independent)

Grayson Capps, Songbones (Hyena)

Hope Waits, Hope Waits (Radar Proof)

Howard Wiley, The Angola Project (Independent)

Joe Warren Cormier, Pure Cajun (Swallow)

John Doheny and the Professors of Pleasure, Tulane University Faculty Quintet (Independent)

John Scofield, This Meets That (Emarcy/Umgd)

Johnny Rivers, Last Boogie in Paris: The Complete Concert (Shout! Factory)

Marc Adams, Grooves for Sale (Independent)

Mindy Smith, My Holiday (Vanguard)

Murmur, Fermata (Backporch Revolution)

Nils Landgren Funk Unit, License to Funk (ACT)

Peter Himmelman, The Pigeons Couldn’t Sleep (Himmasongs Recordings)

Phillip Manuel, PM (IIFire)

Renaissance Cadienne, Minuit Cadien: Noel Pays des Bayous (Tracas)

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Raising Sand (Rounder)

Robyn Hitchcock, I Wanna Go Backwards (Yep Roc)

Smithfield Fair, 20 for 20 (Stevenson Productions)

Soul Asylum, Welcome to the Minority: The A&M Years 1988-1991 (Hip-O)

The Staple Singers, The 25th Day of December (Riverside)

Various Artists, City of Dreams (Rounder)

Various Artists, Have a Merry South Louisiana Christmas (CSP)

Various Artists, I’m Not There (Columbia)

Various Artists, Various Christmas Albums (Various Labels)

Bookmark

David N. Meyer, Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music (Villard)

Mojo Mouth

Happy Holidays

Letters

December 2007 Letters