Offbeat Cover for April, 2010

April 2010 Contents

Cover Story

Anders Osborne: A Patchwork Job

Features

BMI Songwriter Stage: French Quarter Fest Focus

Baby Boyz Brass Band: French Quarter Fest Focus

Ben Schenck: Undressing a C-Sharp Major

Cindy Scott: French Quarter Fest Focus

Ernie Vincent and the Top Notes: French Quarter Fest Focus

Evan Christopher’s Clarinet Road: French Quarter Fest Focus

HBO’s Treme: To Tell the Truth

Kora Konnection: French Quarter Fest Focus

Luke Winslow-King: French Quarter Fest Focus

Strange Fruit

Tom Sancton: French Quarter Fest Focus

BackTalk

Vampire Weekend

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: The Green Goddess

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Wanda Rouzan

Theresa Andersson Hits the Spot at Cure

World’s Largest Jazz Brunch: Dinner For Thousands?

Fresh

An Earthbound Ivan Neville

Benoit Conservationist of the Year

CECI on Hold

Mutemath: A Fight for Haiti

Swamp Pop’s New Home

Obituaries

Obituary: Alex Chilton (1950-2010)

Obituary: Rockie Charles (1939-2010)

Reviews

Abe Manuel, Jr., Swire from Grand Chenier (Jin)

Afroskull, To Obscurity and Beyond (Skull Sound Music)

Ayla Miller, Some Super Silly Snappy Songs and a Few Works of Genius (Independent)

Bionica, Take Your City (Independent)

Bobby Charles, Timeless (Rice ‘n’ Gravy)

Duke Robillard, Stomp! The Blues Tonight (Stony Plain)

Giant Cloud, Old Books EP (Park the Van)

Grandpa Elliott, Sugar Sweet (Concord/Playing For Change)

Hannibal Lokumbe, Dear Mrs. Parks (Naxos)

Hurray for the Riff Raff, Young Blood Blues (Independent)

Josh Charles, Love, Work & Money (CC Ent/Copycat)

Luther Allison, Songs from the Road (Ruff)

Nova Nola, Wetland (Independent)

Stanton Moore, Groove Alchemy (Telarc)

The Givers, Givers EP (Valcour)

The Howdies, Made With Pure Lightning (Independent)

Various Artists, Pure Swamp Pop Gold, Vol. 10 (CSP Records)

Various Artists, Rhythm & Blues (Putumayo)

Bookmark

Bruce Boyd Raeburn, New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History (University of Michigan Press)

Mojo Mouth

Supporting French Quarter Festivals, Inc.

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Bonnie “Prince” Billy and the Cairo Gang

Letters

April 2010 Letters