Offbeat Cover for June, 2011

June 2011 Contents

Cover Story

Washboard Chaz: Man of a Thousand Bands

Features

AFO Records: All for Fifty

Excerpt from New Atlantis by John Swenson: Breaking the Silence

Jazz Fest 2011: Last Call

Mod Dance Party: A Dance Out of Time

Nicholas Payton: His Song

BackTalk

Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Wendell Pierce

Photo Op

Herman Leonard Second Line

OffBeat Eats

Big Freedia Hits the Spot at Copeland’s Cheesecake Bistro

Debbie Does Deberge: Debbie’s Not Debbie

Dining Out: Cyrus Restaurant

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Sean Yseult

Fresh

Mr. Amedé Ardoin, He Dead

New Orleans Traditional Jazz Camp: Come Blow Your Horn

Radiators TV

The Top Ten Selling Albums During Jazz Fest at Louisiana Music Factory

Reviews

Albert King, The Definitive Albert King on Stax (Stax Records)

Alexis Marceaux, Orange Moon (Independent)

Big Freedia, Scion A/V Presents Big Freedia (Scion A/V Records)

Conun Pappas, Jr., The Other Side of Me (Independent)

Dennis McGee, Himself (Valcour Records)

Dickie Landry, Fifteen Saxophones (Unseen Worlds Records)

James Andrews, The Big Time Stuff (Independent)

Joe Adragna, Fall Back (Greenleaves Sound)

Les Amies Louisianaises, Le P’tit Chevrolet (Musique Acadienne)

Lil Pookie & the Zydeco Sensations, Just Want to be Me (Maison de Soul Records)

Morella and the Wheels of If, Shipwrecked (Independent)

The Help, Keep the Beat (Independent)

Tommy Sancton/Lars Edegran New Orleans Legacy Band, City of a Million Dreams (GHB Records)

Various Artists, The Big Beat: The Dave Bartholomew Songbook (Ace Records)

Zigaboo Modeliste, New Life (Independent)

Mojo Mouth

Missing the Music Boat…with Some Potential Lifesavers

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Guitar Wolf at Siberia, June 6

Letters

June 2011 Letters