Archive | September, 2008
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September 2008 Contents

Cover Story

Road to Caviar

Zach Custer and Jonathan Katz

Features

Bobby Charles: Songs and Stories

Steve Hochman

The New Orleans Klezmer Allstars: Language of Hurricanes

Alex Rawls

The Radiators: A Wild, Wild Life

John Swenson

BackTalk

Sonny Landreth

Alex Rawls

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Mahony’s Po-Boy Shop

Peter Thriffiley & Rene Louapre

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Irma Thomas

Elsa Hahne

Fresh

A Dreamer, But He’s Not the Only One

Juli Shipley

Four (or Three or Two) in One

Angela D’Souza

Moving on up

Alex Rawls

Rocking the House or Basement

Kurt Schoenhals

Still Standin

Nick Pittman

Troubled Times

Andrew Hamlin

We’re Baa-aack … Sort Of

Alex Rawls

When Life Gives You Peaches

Kurt Schoenhals

Obituaries

Obituary: Jerry Wexler (1917-2008)

H. Andrew Schwartz

Obituary: Nathan “Bionik Brown” Woods (1976-2008)

Martin “DJ Quickie Mart” Arceneaux

Reviews

Bobby Charles, Homemade Songs (Rice ‘n’ Gravy)

Alex Rawls

Calexico, Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)

Alex Rawls

David Murray and Mal Waldron, Silence (Justin Time)

Todd A. Price

Eddie Floyd, Eddie Loves You (Stax)

Jeff Hannusch

Emmylou Harris, All I Intended To Be (Nonesuch)

Alex Rawls

Jerry Jumonville, You Are My Dream (Carryon)

Steve Steinberg

Kali Z. Fasteau and Kidd Jordan, Live at Kerava Jazz Festival: Finland (Flying Note)

Rob Cambre

Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III (Cash Money)

Benny Powell

Nine Inch Nails, The Slip (NIN.com)

Aaron Lafont

Nomadic Sun, Nomadic Sun (The Shack)

Angela D’Souza

Paul Bley, About Time (Justin Time)

Todd A. Price

Randy Newman, Harps and Angels (Nonesuch)

Tom McDermott

Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Forked Tongue (Cuneiform)

David Kunian

Ruby Rendrag, Wartime Favorites (Independent)

Alex Rawls

Southern Sexual, Negative Value (Permanent Lifetime)

Robert Fontenot

Spooney, Whiskey in the Coffee (Independent)

Robert Fontenot

Stereolab, Chemical Chords (4AD)

Alex Rawls

The Bad Roads, Union Town (Latanier)

Dan Willging

The Final Solution, Brotherman Original Soundtrack (Numero Group)

Alex Rawls

The New Orleans Bingo! Show, Vol II: For a Life Ever Bright (Independent)

Angela D’Souza

The White Bitch, The White Bitch’s Prey Drive (Independent)

Alex Rawls

Theresa Andersson, Hummingbird, Go! (Basin Street)

Alex Rawls

Willie “The Lion” Smith and Don Ewell, Stride Piano Duets (Delmark)

Tom McDermott

Bookmark

Ian McNulty, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life After Katrina (University Press of Mississippi)

Joseph Irrera

Mojo Mouth

Reading and Listening More Is Good For you

Jan Ramsey

Live Wire

Young Jeezy, House of Blues, August 13, 2008

Zach Custer

Letters

September 2008 Letters

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