Offbeat Cover for December, 2008

December 2008 Contents

Cover Story

Quintron and Miss Pussycat: Homemade World

Features

Christmas CDs: Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree?

Pat O’Brien’s: The Songs Remain the Same

Top 5 CDs: The Hot Fives

BackTalk

Jimmy Webb

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Rambla

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Ingrid Lucia

Will Mow for Steak

Fresh

Dining with 70,000 Close Friends

For a Song

Howlin’ Wolf is 20

Not a Typical Record Label

Subdudes: Up Close and Personal

Reviews

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Jingle All the Way (Rounder)

Bobby Lounge, Somethin’s Wrong (Abitian)

Chappo, Media Machine (Independent)

Dash Rip Rock, Country Girlfriend (Abitian)

David Egan, You Don’t Know Your Mind (Out of the Past/Rhonda Sue)

Dennis Stroughmatt, Cadet Rouselle: French Creole Fiddle Tunes & Ballads from Old Upper Louisiana, Volume II (Swallow)

Earl “Washboard” Sally, Home Grown (Catfish Zydeco)

Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs, Dirt Don’t Hurt (Transdreamer)

James Harman, Two Sides to Every Story (Hep Cat)

Jimmy Hughes, Best of (Fame/EMI)

Kan-Tu Blues Band, Live at the Village Trestle (Independent)

Lenny LaCour, Walkin’ the Bullfrog (Night Train)

Oscar “Papa” Celestin, Oscar “Papa” Celestin with Adolphe Alexander (American Music)

R.E.M., Murmur (A&M)

Ryan Foret and Foret Tradition, She’s Mine (CSP Records)

The Abitians, New Mardi Gras Classics (Abitian)

Topaz and Mudphonic, Music for Dorothy (Independent)

Various Artists, Her Name is New Orleans: Listen to the Women (Independent)

Various Artists, Swamp Pop Sweethearts (Jin)

Walter Jr., The River Club (Gatortone)

Will Bernard, Blue Plate Special (Palmetto)

Bookmark

Sean Manning (ed.), Rock and Roll Cage Match: Music’s Greatest Rivalries, Decided (Three Rivers Press)

Mojo Mouth

Love Letter to New Orleans

Letters

December 2008 Letters