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March 2010 Contents

Cover Story

MyNameIsJohnMichael: What’s in a Name?

Features

A Lucky Bounce

Foburg Music Festival: Spelling Doesn’t Matter

Music Without Bars

Preservation Hall Jazz Band: The A List

BackTalk

Les Blank

OffBeat Eats

Chip Wilson Hits the Spot at Elizabeth’s Restaurant

Dining Out: Crescent Pie & Sausage Co.

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Andrew Duhon

Fresh

Changes at the Ogden Museum

Clark Vreeland: Ten Years After

Dirty Bourbon River Show: The Circus is in Town

LA at SXSW

Obituaries

Obituary: Dale Hawkins (1936-2010)

Reviews

DJ Quickie Mart, Brain Salad Surgery (mixtape)

Dennis Paul Williams, Morning Light (Way Down in Louisiana)

Dirty Bourbon River Show, Volume One (Independent)

Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers, Up In Flames (Sound of New Orleans)

Eddie C. Campbell, Tear This World Up (Delmark)

Gov’t Majik, Party Favors (Future Family)

Gypsyphonic Disko, Nola-Phonic, Volume One (mixtape)

J. the Savage, Songs from the Tree of Life (Independent)

Jack Brass Band, Fourth Movement (Independent)

Krewe of Eris, The Feasts of the Appetite of Eris (Domino Sound)

Larry Ankrum, Without Reasons (Forasound)

Lil Wayne and Same Ol Two Step, Gotta Be Me (Shrimpo Music)

Mark Weliky Trio, Mark Weliky Trio (Independent)

Maryland Jazz Band of Cologne featuring Lillian Boutte, Let’s All Go Down To New Orleans – Live At the Palm Court Jazz Café (GHB)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Preservation (Preservation Hall)

Rotary Downs, Cracked Maps and Blue Reports (Rookery)

Sean Costello, A Memorial Retrospective (Landslide)

Smiley Lewis, Smiley Rocks (Bear Family)

The Way, Half Awake (Independent)

Various Artists, A Light on the South Side (Numero Group)

Mojo Mouth

Reviving Music in the Quarter

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Spoon

Letters

March 2010 Letters