February 2000
BackTalk
- Earl King
The seventh son of a seventh son, Earl King composes songs that are witty, wry observations of human nature. Earl’s guitar…
Bluesworthy
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Chassez De Faim
Cover Story
- The Peculiar Reality of Dr. John
Mac Rebennack, known and loved throughout the galaxy of music as Dr. John, is the recipient of OffBeat’s 1999 Best of…
Dis 'n' Dat
- Coffee Mates
"What Coffee is all about is soul," Coffee keyboardist David Mondebello contemplates. "It all comes down to feeling, music that you…
Features
- Cosimo Matassa: Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
It should be no surprise that Cosimo Matassa is the recipient of OffBeat’s first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award given to a member… - Best of the Beat 1999 Award Winners
- 10 Years Ago in OffBeat: February
- Cosimo Matassa: Keeping It Simple, Making It Great
COSIMO MATASSA: LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNER It should be no surprise that Cosimo Matassa is the recipient of OffBeat’s first-ever… - A Conversation with Ellis & Jason Marsalis, Part Two
As we learned in Part One of our conversation with Ellis and Jason Marsalis, brass band musicians are not necessarily talented,…
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Know What It Means
Letters
- Letters February 2000
WAITING FOR JESUS I really do wish you and the rest of your staff would stop criticizing our wonderful politicians (state…
Mojo Mouth
- Best of the Beat...Marsalis, Mooney and Mardi Card
Congratulations to the fifth annual OffBeat Best of the Beat winners! Your musician peers and your fans have voted you the…
Rhythm Method
Sauce Piquante
Straight, No Chaser
Talkin' 'bout New Orleans
- Mr. Bass Man: Chuck Badie
Anyone with an interest in New Orleans music has undoubtedly heard Chuck Badie, but probably never realized it. Badie’s string bass…
Reviews
- Kaleb Trahan, The Next Generation (Swallow)
The last year of the 20th century was a landmark one for young Cajun musicians cutting albums as the whole crop… - Robert Moore, Cool Blue (Romo Music)
As the title appears to imply, this is a two-CD set but it’s even more than that. It’s like two different… - Various Artists, Grounation: The Indomitable Spirit of Rastafari (Music Club)
Once upon a time, there was a provincial governor (or “ras”) in Ethiopia whose last name was Tafari. Ras Tafari became… - Teddy Morgan and the Pistolas, Lost Love and Highways (Hightone)
First there was his debut, the swing-blues Ridin’ In Style, done with the Sevilles as backup (1994). Then came 1996’s more… - Sweet Spot, Sweet Spot (Chunky the Most)
Sweet spot is a golf term to describe the target area where the club must meets the ball in order to… - Various Artists, Louisiana Legends (Louisiana Proud)
Two years ago Eunice’s KBON 101.1 FM stepped up to the plate like no other Southwest Louisiana radio station had—by airing… - 190 Express, Back to Basics (Louisiana Proud)
Two years ago Eunice’s KBON 101.1 FM stepped up to the plate like no other Southwest Louisiana radio station had—by airing… - Blaxuede, Dey Don't Kno (Avatar)
New Orleans has always been known for taking unique ideas and turning them into wonderful tracks for the world. The latest… - Canned Heat, Boogie 2000 (Ruf)
Maybe it’s time for Truth-In-Labeling laws for music, as MAD Magazine keeps insisting. The can on the front of this particular… - Mental Metropolis, Multiple Dimensions (Hit Positive)
When I first saw a flyer for this group around UNO, I thought that the Metropolis was just another wannabe Rage… - Don Byron, Romance with the Unseen (Blue Note)
Don Byron is perhaps one of the most innovative and unpredictable jazz musicians of the last decade. The Bronx-born graduate of… - David and Roselyn, New Orleans Style (Da Ro Productions)
As noted by their previous release Praha Live and now New Orleans Style, the reigning royalty of New Orleans street buskers… - String Cheese Incident, Carnival '99 (SCI - Fidelity)
String Cheese Incident (SCI) has been compared to jam-bands such as Phish and the Grateful Dead, but Carnival ’99, SCI’s fourth… - Lead Belly, Bridging Lead Belly (Rounder)
Fifty years after his death, Lead Belly is universally recognized as one of the essential contributors of American folk and blues.… - Junior Kimbrough, Meet Me in the City (Fat Possum)
Junior Kimbrough’s Meet Me In The City, released by the mad blues fanatics at Fat Possum Records, is half a great… - Wynton Marsalis, Reeltime (Columbia)
Wynton Marsalis completes his musical journey into the new millennium with the seventh and final release in his “Swinging into the… - Rachel Van Voorhees, My Gentle Harp: A Collection of Celtic Favorites (Centaur)
When I played harp as a child, the name Turlough O’Carolan, to me, meant an endless collection of sprightly little melodies… - Robben Ford, Supernatural (Blue Thumb)
Considering the dangerous paths Robben Ford has taken these past few years—rough blues and instrumental jazz-rock fusion—this latest could be dismissed… - The Dukes of Dixieland with the Moses Hogan New Orleans Gospel Choir, Gloryland (Leisure Jazz)
New Orleans jazz has always lent itself well to gospel music, whether it’s Armstrong swinging the “Saints” or the landmark “Jazz… - George Stancell, Gorgeous George (JSP Records)
He gets compared to Little Johnny Taylor, or so the press would have you believe, but George Stancell’s debut—40 years in… - Les Haricots Sont Pas Sales, Legendary Masters of Cajun and Creole Music (Cinq Planetes)
In 1972, French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Bruneau visited Evangeline Parish to shoot a documentary about Cajun music when this accompanying recording was… - Octa Clark and Hector Duhon, Old Time Cajun Music (Arhoolie)
For most of their lives, the musical souls of Cajun musicians Octa Clark, accordion, and Hector Duhon, fiddle, were inseparable. In… - Elridge Aguillard, Instrumental Cajun Fiddling (Acadiana Records)
For the past 55 years, Eunice’s Elridge Aguillard has been playing Cajun fiddle and doing it well. With such a legacy,… - T-Mamou, Cajun and Creole Jam (Swallow Records)
In the liner notes for this record, producer Sam Broussard writes “This is an unusual album of traditional Cajun music. It… - Mamou, Mamou Comes to Town (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
Steve LaFleur (a.k.a. Mamou) has become a regular on the Bourbon Street scene and the re-release of this record is well-timed… - Johnnie Allan, Essential Collection: The Second Volume (Jin)
This is a rare follow up collection that is as good, if not better than the Allan’s original greatest hits package… - James Cotton, Billy Branch, Charlie Musselwhite and Sugar Ray Norcia, Superharps (Telarc)
This is less a jam session than the Heavyweight Championship of harp masters, a real old-fashioned head-cutting where the names aren’t… - Zap Mama, A Ma Zone (Luaka Bop)
You’re gliding though Outer Space and you encounter Zap Mama empress Marie Daulne and her troupe of lovely harmonizing African sisters.… - Lil' Malcolm and the House Rockers, Zydeco Three Way: A Tribute to Clifton Chenier and Rockin' Sidney (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
Zydeco Three Way takes a fresh approach to the increasing number of forgettable tribute records. Instead of focusing on a single… - Soul Remedy, Soul Remedy (Funky Uncle Records)
Soul Remedy is perhaps one of the most musically interesting groups to come out of New Orleans in the last year.… - Coolbone Swing Troupe, Bone Swing (Louisiana Red Hot Records)
Coolbone’s first two albums showcased their unique style, which they dubbed brass-hop. Named for its innovative jambalaya of rap vocals and… - Hank Williams III, Risin' Outlaw (Curb Records)
You’ve heard the story before: Once in a long, long, time, an artist emerges who knocks the status quo on its… - Various Artists, Putumayo Presents Zydeco (Putumayo World Music)
It seems ironic yet it could be destiny. After quietly establishing an impressive world music catalogue for much of the ’90s,… - Various Artists, Putumayo Presents Louisiana Gumbo (Putumayo World Music)
It seems ironic yet it could be destiny. After quietly establishing an impressive world music catalogue for much of the ’90s,…
