Offbeat Cover for October, 2011

October 2011 Contents

Cover Story

Kenny Wayne Shepherd: His Fathers’ Son

Features

Big History’s Big Balance

Classie Ballou: Boozoo’s Bottom

Flood Streets: Shooting the Streets

Jonathan Batiste’s Underground Music

Sissy Before Sissy: A History of the Dance Called “The Sissy”

Wardell Quezergue’s Finest

BackTalk

Arthur Roger

Photo Op

Lady on Stage

OffBeat Eats

Dining Out: Ancora

The Gravy: In the Kitchen with Big Al Carson

Tyler Scurlock of Sun Hotel Hits the Spot at Lebanon’s Cafe

Fresh

Dave Malone Is Back in Action

Ellis Vanicor Takes Four Le Cajun Awards

Gretna Heritage Festival: We Believe

Lost Bayou Ramblers: Rock en Français

New Orleans Film Festival: Fairytale on Film

New Orleans Underground Hip-Hop Awards: Making Hip-Hop History

Opening the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music

Threadhead Records Grants

Obituaries

Obituary: Wardell Quezergue (1930-2011)

Reviews

Creole String Beans, Shrimp Boots and Vintage Suits (Threadhead Records)

Death Cab for Cutie, Codes and Keys (Atlantic Records)

Donald Harrison, Ron Carter and Billy Cobham), This Is Jazz: Live at the Blue Note (Half Note Records)

Eric Lindell, West County Drifter (M.C. Records)

John Sinclair & Hollow Bones, Honoring the Local Gods (Straw2Gold Records)

John Sinclair and His International Blues Scholars, Let’s Go Get ‘Em (Mo-Sounds)

Lil Wayne, Tha Carter IV (Young Money/Universal Records)

Lyrikill, More Heart More Sole (Elevated Minds Records)

Rosie Ledet, Come Get Some (JSP Records)

Thomas and the People, Beneath the Trees (Independent)

Bookmark

Kevin Avery, Everything is an Afterthought: The Life and Writings of Paul Nelson (Fantagraphics); Conversations with Clint (Continuum)

Mojo Mouth

Tempest in a ‘tit Pot

Letters

October 2011 Letters