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March 2009 Contents

Cover Story

Irvin Mayfield’s Art of the Deal

Features

From LA to L.A.

Glasgow: Life on Earth

Hurray for the Riff Raff: Love and Desperation

Luther Kent: Gimme Two Steps

SXSW: Louisiana in the Lone Star State

The Best of the Beat, 2008

BackTalk

The Knux

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: The Galley

Evan Christopher Hits the Spot at Luke

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Antoinette K-Doe

Fresh

Satchmo Cuts and Pastes

The Lost Ford

The Missing Link

Tip’s Brings Cooperation to Lafayette

We Win!

Where the Winners Go

Obituaries

Obituary: Snooks Eaglin

Reviews

Banu Gibson, Banu Gibson Sings More Johnny Mercer (Swing Out)

Buddy and Julie Miller, Written in Chalk (New West)

Chris Darrow, Under My Own Disguise (Everloving)

Glasgow, On Earth (Independent)

Howlin’ Wolf, Rocking the Blues: Live in Germany 1964 (Acrobat)

Jeff Albert Quartet, Similar in the Opposite Way (Fora Sound)

Jimmy Breaux & Friends, Live at Festivals Acadiens (Way Down in Louisiana)

John Scofield, Piety Street (EmArcy/Decca)

Justin Peake + Robin Boudreaux, Submerge (Independent)

Miles Davis, Kind of Blue Legacy Ed. (Columbia/Legacy)

Phil Phillips, Sea of Love (Bear Family)

Robert Cray, Live at the BBC (Mercury)

Sam Myers and Anson Funderburgh, My Love is Here to Stay (Hep Cat)

Shemekia Copeland, Never Come Back (Telarc Blues)

Silent Cinema, Fins and Feathers (Independent)

Susan Tedeschi, Back to the River (Verve Forecast)

The Bad Plus featuring Wendy Lewis, For All I Care (Heads Up)

The Gourds, Haymaker! (Yep Roc)

Touch, Touch (Ears & Eyes)

Various Artists, Downtown Alive! 25th Anniversary Compilation (Downtown Lafayette Unlimited)

Various Artists, Swamp Pop Gold Volume 9 (CSP)

Bookmark

James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America (Gotham)

Mojo Mouth

Spicing Up Tough Times

Letters

March 2009 Letters