Offbeat Cover for October, 2009

October 2009 Contents

Cover Story

Voices in the Wilderness: Tab Benoit and Voice of the Wetlands

Features

Classic Songs of Louisiana: “You Are My Sunshine”

Sean and Secrets

The Pod People

When Band-Aids Aren’t Enough

BackTalk

Lenny Kravitz

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Crabby Jack’s

June Yamagishi Hits the Spot at Mojo Coffee House

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Greg Schatz

Fresh

Alec Ounsworth: A Crumbling Beauty

Bigger, Badder Blues

Punk’s Not Dead

Songs for the Saints

That’s the Joint

The Rosetta Stone

Tribal without Tattoos

Troubadours Today

Obituaries

Obituary: Juanita Brooks (1954-2009)

Reviews

Alec Ounsworth, Mo Beauty (Anti-)

Bonsoir, Catin, Vive L’Amour (Valcour)

Charles Moore, Classical Guitar, Vol. 1 (Independent)

Creole Stringbeans, Creole Stringbeans (Stringbeans)

Henry Gray and the Cats, Times are Gettin’ Hard (Lucky Cat)

Lawrence Sieberth, Arkipelago, (Musik Blöc)

Ledisi, Turn Me Loose (Verve Forecast)

Lil’ Nathan – The Autonomous, Fit For Survival (Cha Cha)

Luke Winslow-King, Old/New Baby (Fox on a Hill)

Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle, Rock Star Bench Press (Hyena)

Odoms, Let Me Atom, (Independent)

Shannon McNally and Hot Sauce, Coldwater (Independent)

The High Ground Drifters, The High Ground Drifters, (Independent)

The Magnolia Sisters, Stripped Down (Arhoolie)

The Radiators, The Lost Southlake Sessions (Radz)

Wardell Quezergue, Music for Children Ages 3 to 103 (Jazz Foundation of America)

Mojo Mouth

Navigating the “Velvet-Lined Rut”

Live Wire

Live Review: N.E.R.D. and Mickey Facts

Live Review: Star Wars: In Concert October 27, 2009

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Michelle Shocked

Os Mutantes

The Minus 5 with Steve Wynn and the Baseball Project

Letters

October 2009 Letters