Offbeat Cover for July, 2008

July 2008 Contents

Cover Story

Re-Funked

Features

Classic Songs of Louisiana: “Mr. Big Stuff” by Jean Knight

Essence: Space Oddities

Lil Wayne: To Mix or Not to Mix

BackTalk

Jimmy Robinson

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: MiLa

The Good Stuff

Fresh

Dixie Saints

First Stevie, Then Scully

It’s All About Families

OffBeat Nominated for Press Club Awards

On the Road Again-Or Not

The Song of the Week

Obituaries

Obituary: Dean Lutz (1974-2008)

Reviews

Amos Lee, Last Days at the Lodge (Blue Note)

Amy Trail, Lushious Life (Independent)

Cassandra Wilson, Loverly (Blue Note)

Charles Thibodeaux and the Austin Cajun Aces, Hommage a Andrew Cormier (Independent)

Davy Mooney, Astoriano (LateSet)

Dr. Michael White, Blue Crescent (Basin Street)

Egg Yolk Jubilee, Labor of Lunch (Independent)

Esperanza Spalding, Esperanza (Heads Up)

Gravy, Said & Done (Independent)

Hurray for the Riff Raff, It Don’t Mean I Don’t Love You (Independent)

Jamal Batiste, The Unorthodox Drummer: The First Assemblage (Jam-All Productions)

Jimmy Robinson, Vibrating Strings (Independent)

Judith Owen, Mopping Up Karma (Courgette)

Lyfe Jennings, Lyfe Changes (Columbia)

Mitch Woods featuring the Lazy Jumpers, Jukebox Drive (El Toro)

New York Dolls, Live at the Fillmore East (Sony/BMG)

Otis Redding, Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul (Collector’s Edition) (Atco/Rhino)

Sonny Landreth, From the Reach (Landfall)

Todd Sickafoose, Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone)

Tom McDermott, All the Keys & Then Some (Parnassus)

Truth Universal, Self-Determination (Independent)

Umami, Umami (Independent)

Walter Jr., A Long Way from Lafayette (Gator Tone)

Mojo Mouth

Essential Matters

Letters

July 2008 Letters