Offbeat Cover for July, 2011

July 2011 Contents

Cover Story

Big Freedia: Do Azz I Say

Features

Cover Bands: What Do You Want?

Idris Muhammad: From Here to Hair

Lionel Ferbos: The Century Mark

BackTalk

Mavis Staples

Photo Op

Paul McCartney, Earl King, and Benny Spellman

OffBeat Eats

Across the Bar: Music Venue Bartenders

Dining Out: 12 Mile Limit

Jeremy Thompson of Eiffel Society: Simple Isn’t Simple

Rusty Lazer Hits the Spot at Cake Café & Bakery

The Booze Tube: Home Bars

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Trixie Minx

Fresh

Essence Festival: The Funk You May Have Missed

Geno Delafose: King Creole

Mr. Ghetto Talks Walmart

OffBeat in the Club

Open Hall

Spyboy Ricky on Ice

Tea and Tales of the Cocktail

The Grammy Up Sides

Obituaries

Obituary: Benny Spellman (1931-2011)

Reviews

A. Levy, Commercial Break (mixtape)

Davis Rogan, The Real Davis (Sousaphonk Records)

Don Vappie with the Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Rosenberg, Jazz Nocturne: American Concertos of the Jazz Age (Naxos Records)

Dr. Michael White, Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Vol. 1 (Basin Street Records)

Etta James, The Essential Modern Records Collection (Virgin Records)

Helen Gillet, Running of the Bells (Independent)

Henry Gray, Lucky Man (Blind Pig Records)

Impulss n’ Bazooka Joe, Bronx, New Orleans: Respect Where it Started (Quarter Rat Musique)

Joe Hall and the Louisiana Cane Cutters, Thirty Dobb Special (Fruge Records)

Johnny Sansone, The Lord is Waiting and the Devil is Too (Shortstack Records)

Kelly Carlyle, Stethoscope (Independent)

Koan, Chronicles of a Dying Breed (Independent)

Missing Monuments, Painted White (Sympathy for the Hardware Industry Records)

Reverend John Wilkins, You Can’t Hurry God (Fat Possum Records)

Stanton Davis’ Ghetto Mysticism, Brighter Days (Cultures of Soul Records)

Stefon Harris, David Sánchez, Christian Scott, Ninety Miles (Concord Picante Records)

Tha Cartel, Cartel Diem: Lifestyles of the Young & Reckless (Independent)

The New Orleans Bingo! Show, Volume 3: Memory Parade (Independent)

The Scorseses, Presenting the Scorseses (Independent)

Various Artists, Acadian All Star Special: The Pioneering Cajun Recordings Of J.D. Miller (Bear Family Records)

Various Artists, Ace Story Volume 3 (Ace Records)

Various Artists, Mardi Gras Parade Music From New Orleans, Volume 2 (GHB Records)

Bookmark

Preservation Hall by Shannon Brinkman and Eve Abrams (LSU University Press)

Mojo Mouth

What’s The Difference Between Bourbon and Frenchmen?

Plan A: Upcoming Shows

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit at the Parish at House of Blues July 27

Letters

July 2011 Letters