Archive | January, 2008
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January 2008 Contents

Cover Story

Lifetime Achievement Award in Music: Wardell Quezergue

John Swenson

Features

Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: Cynthia Simien

Herman Fuselier

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Business: Roy Shaw

Jeff Hannusch

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Education: Wilbert Rawlins, Jr.

Alex Rawls

Best of the Beat Nominations: Simply the Best

OffBeat Staff

Top 50 CDs of 2007

OffBeat Staff

BackTalk

Cyril Neville

Alex Rawls

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Pupuseria Divino Corazon

Todd A. Price

Rest of the Story

Todd A. Price

Fresh

A Grammy First

Richard Giraldi

Another Kind of Hybrid

Richard Giraldi

For the Love of Thorny

Alex Rawls

Good Homes for Guitars

Richard Giraldi

Party for Two

Alex Rawls

The Whole Drum Truth

John Swenson

Two Nights of Stomp

Alex Rawls

V is for Victory

Alex Rawls

Obituaries

Obituary: Ernest “Doc” Paulin

David Kunian

Obituary: Joseph Adam “Zydeco Joe” Mouton

Herman Fuselier

Reviews

Amanda Shaw, Pretty Runs Out (Rounder)

Brett Milano

Benjy Davis Project, Dust (Real/Bogalusa)

Brett Milano

Betty Harris, Intuition (Evidence)

Jeff Hannusch

Blues Traveler, Cover Yourself (C3)

Cree McCree

Chef Menteur, The Answer’s in Forgetting (Backporch Revolution)

Alex Rawls

Country Fried, Saint of New Orleans (Independent)

Alex Rawls

Cowboy Mouth, The Name of the Band is Cowboy Mouth (Valley DVD)

Alex Rawls

Damon Troy, Resurfaced (MTE)

Dan Willging

Dennis McGee & Sady Courville, Recordings from the Collection of Jack Bond (FieldRecorder.com)

Dan Willging

Dewey Balfa with Friends and Family, Recordings from the Collection of Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music (FieldRecorder.com)

Dan Willging

Eric Lindell, Low on Cash, Rich in Love (Alligator)

Jeff Hannusch

Gov’t Mule, Mighty High (ATO)

Robert Fontenot

Gram Parsons with the Flying Burrito Brothers, Archives Vol. One: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 (Amoeba)

Alex Rawls

Harry Shearer, Songs Pointed & Pointless (Courgette)

Alex Rawls

Herbie Hancock, The Joni Letters (Verve)

David Kunian

Ike & Tina Turner, The Ike & Tina Turner Story 1960-1975 (Time Life)

Jeff Hannusch

Jimmie Leslie, Surfin’ the Swamp (Concurrent)

Robert Fontenot

Joe Hall, Good Times Good Music (Independent)

Dan Willging

Kelcy Mae, The Times Compiled (Independent)

Robert Fontenot

Levon Helm, Dirt Farmer (Vanguard)

Alex Rawls

Marco Benevento, Live at Tonic (Ropeadope)

Richard Giraldi

Nat King Cole, Cole Espanol/More Cole Espanol (EMI/Collector’s Club)

Alex Rawls

Os Mutantes, Live at the Barbican Theater 2006 (Luaka Bop)

Alex Rawls

The “5″ Royales, Catch That Teardrop (Ace)

Jeff Hannusch

The Happy Talk Band, THERE There (Independent)

Alex Rawls

The Magnetic Ear, Live at the Saturn Bar (Independent)

David Kunian

Van Hunt, Popular (EMI)

Alex Rawls

Various Artists, Fulton Street Live (Harrah’s)

Alex Rawls

Various Artists, Stax Does the Beatles (Stax)

Andrew Hamlin

Various Artists, Stax Sings Motown (Stax)

Andrew Hamlin

Various Artists, Swamp Gold Country, Volume 2 (Jin Records)

Jeff Hannusch

Bookmark

Robert Matheu and Brian J. Bowe, Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Magazine (Collins)

Alex Rawls

Mojo Mouth

What a Year

Jan Ramsey

Letters

January 2008 Letters

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