Offbeat Cover for May, 2008

May 2008 Contents

Cover Story

We Are Family: The Neville Brothers

Features

Astral Project: Let’s Stay Together

Brass Bands: Off the Record

J&M Studio: House of Rock

Music for Your Mouth: What Do Musicians Eat During Jazz Fest?

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: James “Blood” Ulmer

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: Ronnie Spector

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: The Collins Kids

Ponderosa Stomp Focus: The Mighty Hannibal

Rob Wagner: Time and Place

St. James Infirmary: The Song Remains the Same…Or Does It?

BackTalk

Terrance Simien

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: New Orleans Cake Café and Bakery

There’s No Taste Like Home

Fresh

Antenna Inn: Influenced by Bums

Back in Business

Back to Mid-City

Better Living Through Science

Do the Math

Hearts Full of Soul

Memphis in Blues

The Last Record Man

The Littlest Media Star

The Vision Thing

Reviews

Al Green, Lay it Down (Blue Note)

Big Sam’s Funky Nation, Peace, Love and Understanding (Independent)

Bobby Lounge, Bobby’s Back in Town LIVE (Abitian)

Campbell Brothers, Rallytime! (Tulip)

Cedric Watson, Cedric Watson (Valcour)

Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, Live at Knucklehead’s, Kansas City (Swampadellic)

Cousin Joe, I Never Harmed an Onion (Night Train)

Dianne Reeves, When You Know (Blue Note)

Ellis Marsalis Quartet, An Open Letter to Thelonious (ELM)

Feufollet, Low Island Hop (Valcour)

Frederick “Shep” Sheppard, Tradition: The Habari Gani Sessions (Drumparade)

Jason Miles and DJ Logic, Global Noize (Shanachie)

Joe Bonsall and His Orange Playboys, Cajun Jamboree (Swallow)

Joe Ely and Joel Guzman, Live Cactus! (Rack ‘em)

John Boutte, Good Neighbor (Independent)

Kathleen Edwards, Asking for Flowers (Zoe/Rounder)

Lost Bayou Ramblers, Vermilionaire (Independent)

Marcia Ball, Peace, Love & BBQ (Alligator)

Paul Sanchez, Exit to Mystery Street (Independent)

Roy Young, Memphis (Tommy Boy)

Smoky Greenwell and the Blues Gnus, Between Iraq and a Hard Place (Southland)

Stanton Moore Trio, Emphasis (on the Parenthesis) (Telarc)

T-Bone Burnett, Tooth of Crime (Nonesuch)

Tab Benoit with Louisiana’s LeRoux, Night Train to Nashville (Telarc)

The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely (Warner Bros.)

Tom McDermott and Connie Jones, Creole Nocturne (Arbors)

Tom Scott, Cannon Re-Loaded: A Celebration of Cannonball Adderley (Concord Records)

Various Artists, Honeydripper Soundtrack (Rhino)

Various Artists, Monterey Jazz Festival: 50th Anniversary All-Stars (Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival) (Monterey Jazz Fest)

Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Doin’ the Funky Thing (Independent)

Waylon Thibodeaux, Who’s Yo Cher Be Be (Rabadash)

Bookmark

David King Dunaway, How Can I Keep From Singing? The Ballad of Pete Seeger (Random House)

Mojo Mouth

Mo’ Bettah

Letters

May 2008 Letters