Offbeat Cover for April, 2011

April 2011 Contents

Cover Story

A Half-Fast Walk With Pete Fountain

Features

Aurora Nealand: A Good Ear for the Roses

Blister in Le Soleil: The Lost Bayou Ramblers and Gordon Gano

Chubby Carrier: French Quarter Fest Focus

Flow Tribe: Funk in the Real World

French Quarter Fest 2011: A-Z Guide

Kourtney Heart: French Quarter Fest Focus

Magnetic Ear: French Quarter Fest Focus

New Orleans Nightcrawlers: French Quarter Fest Focus

Pfister Sisters: French Quarter Fest Focus

Steve Pistorius: French Quarter Fest Focus

Storyville Stompers: French Quarter Fest Focus

Touched by Treme

BackTalk

David Simon of HBO’s Treme

Photo Op

Rehearsal

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Three Muses

Kristin Diable Hits the Spot at Green Goddess

Muriel’s Restaurant: From Séance Lounge to Jazz Brunch

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Renard Poché

Fresh

Del McCoury’s in the Hall

Jovany Barreto’s Idol Experience

Liveset Goes Live

Tony Green: What the Hell?

Obituaries

Obituary: Herman Ernest (1951-2011)

Obituary: John Berthelot (1942-2011)

Obituary: Sherman Washington (1925-2011)

Reviews

Barrence Whitfield & the Savages, Barrence Whitfield & the Savages (Ace Records UK)

Ben Kono, Crossings (19/8 Records)

Big Joe & the Dynaflows, You Can’t Keep a Big Man Down (Severn Records)

Country Fried, Life Is Fine (Independent)

Delfeayo Marsalis, Sweet Thunder (Troubadour Jass)

Empress Hotel, Empress Hotel (Park the Van Records)

Goldman & Guyland, Teaching the Young (Shrimpo Records)

Green Demons, Outer Sex (Independent)

Horace Trahan, Keep Walking (Independent)

Know One and DamNathan, Soundtrack: The Ballad of Know One & DamNathan (Media Darling Records)

Koray Broussard & the Zydeco Unit, Trapped (MTE Records)

Louisiana Red, Sweet Blood Call (Fat Possum Records)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Del McCoury Band, American Legacies (McCoury Music)

Rebirth Brass Band, Rebirth of New Orleans (Basin Street Records)

The White Bitch, The White Bitch’s Brass Balls (Independent)

Various Artists, Louisiana Cajun & Creole Music: The Newport Field Recordings (Rounder Records)

Various Artists, Treme: Music from the HBO Original Series, Season One (Geffen Records)

Washboard Chaz Blues Trio, On the Street (Independent)

Bookmark

Michael Oliver-Goodwin, Heaven Before I Die (Black Shadow Press)

Mojo Mouth

Quarter Time

Letters

April 2011 Letters