Offbeat Cover for January, 2009

January 2009 Contents

Cover Story

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music: Bo Dollis

Features

Best of the Beat Heartbeat Award: Antoinette K-Doe

Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music: Harold Battiste

Best of the Beat Music Business Award: Maggie Warwick

Best of the Beat Music Education Award: Donald Harrison and Cherice Harrison-Nelson

Best of the Beat Posthumous Lifetime Achievement in Music: James Carroll Booker III

Grammy Nominees Announced

Jazz Fest 2009 Schedule: Turning 40

Nominees: Back to the Beat

Top 50 CDs: A Very Good Year

BackTalk

Trombone Shorty

OffBeat Eats

A Sense of Place

Dining Out: St. James Cheese Company

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Leroy Jones

Fresh

31 and Counting

A Grand Reopening

Doucet vs. Doucet?

More Meat

Still Stomping

Obituaries

Obituary: Luderin Darbone (1913-2008)

Obituary: Senator Jones (1934-2008)

Reviews

B.G. and the Chopper City Boyz, Life in the Concrete Jungle (Chopper City)

Brint Anderson, Brint Anderson (Brinttunes)

Brother Tyrone, Mindbender (Guitar Joe’s House of Blues)

Christian Scott, Live at Newport (Concord)

Gumbeaux Rouge, Stirrin’ It Up (Jin)

Jimmy Carpenter, Toiling in Obscurity (Independent)

Lil Wayne and DJ Drama, Dedication 3 (Mixtape)

Magic Slim, Midnight Blues (Blind Pig)

Mavis Staples, Live: Hope at the Hideout (Anti-)

Pine Leaf Boys, Homage au Passe (Lionsgate)

Reunion 69, Leaving it All Behind (Evergreen)

Shirley and Lee, Rock (Bear Family)

The Tomatoes, Divisionism (Independent)

Truckstop Honeymoon, Great Big Family (Squirrel)

Vic Shepherd, Crescent City Serenade (Independent)

the subdudes, Live and Acoustic (Biographica DVD)

Mojo Mouth

Immigrants

Live Wire

Down, New Orleans Arena, November 23, 2008

Letters

January 2009 Letters