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April 2008 Contents

Cover Story

Tom McDermott: The Keys to the City

Features

Classic Songs of Louisiana: “Lawdy Miss Clawdy”

Down by the Riverside: French Quarter Festival 2008

Frederick “Shep” Sheppard: A Great Voice

Native Tongues

BackTalk

Ellis and Jason Marsalis

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Whole Hog Cafe

The New Farming Frontier

Fresh

Hampton Flying South

Independent’s Day

Kids’ Stuff

Look Back with Decoupage

New Tools for Zydeco

Seven Days of Blues

The Creole Rat Pack

What’s in a Name?

Obituaries

Obituary: John Brunious

Reviews

Bipolaroid, E(I)ther Or (Surreal but Kind)

Clive Wilson’s New Orleans Serenaders, Heart Full of Rhythm (GHB)

Cyrus Chestnut, Cyrus Plays Elvis (Koch)

Dame Shirley Bassey, Get the Party Started (Decca)

Danny Marks, Introducing the Solars (Damngood!)

French Preservation New Orleans Jazz Band with Sammy Rimington and Fred Vigorito, Memories of Kid Thomas (Jazzology)

Helena, Fraise Vanille (Sunnyside)

Henry Butler, PiaNOLA Live (Basin Street)

Irvin Mayfield and Ellis Marsalis, Love Songs, Ballads and Standards (Basin Street)

James McMurtry, Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod)

Jeff Kashiwa, Kim Waters, and Steve Cole, The Sax Pack (Shanachie)

Jeremy Lyons and the Deltabilly Boys, Death of a Street Singer (Five Eighths)

Jesse McBride, Jesse McBride presents the Next Generation (AFO)

Kyle Huval and the Dixie Club Ramblers, The Corner Post (Swallow)

Lamarque Street, Favorite Waste of Time (Lost Car)

Laura Reed & Deep Pocket, soul:music (Independent)

Little Freddie King, Messin’ Around tha House (Made Wright)

Maceo Parker, Roots & Grooves (Heads Up)

Michael Pellera, Playin’ Piano (PawMaw Music)

North Mississippi Allstars, Hernando (Songs of the South)

Outformation, Traveler’s Rest (Outerprise)

Rock City Morgue, The Cat’s Meow (Independent)

Rufus Thibodeaux, A Tribute to Harry Choates (Kajun)

The Doors, Live in Pittsburgh 1970 (DMC/Bright Midnight/Rhino)

The Vettes, T.V. (ThroBack)

Truckstop Honeymoon, Won’t Let the Angels Take You Away DVD (Binky)

Various Artists, A New Orleans Visit-Before Katrina (Arhoolie)

Various Artists, Spirits in the Material World: A Reggae Tribute to the Police (Shanachie)

Wynton Marsalis, Standards & Ballads (Columbia/Legacy)

Bookmark

Mick Burns (ed.), Walking with Legends: Barry Martyn’s New Orleans Jazz Odyssey (Louisiana State University Press)

Mojo Mouth

Privilege and Pleasure

Letters

April 2008 Letters