November 1999

BackTalk

Ben Harper
As Ben Harper sings on the title track of his latest release, Burn To Shine, "How I miss the good old… – Bunny Matthews

Chris Vincent: Blues from Bayonne
When New Jersey's Courier-News awarded Chris Vincent "Best Blues Artist" for its "Makin' Waves" awards back in March, the paper exhorted… – Robert Fontenot

Bear With Us
Bear Family Records is doing the Lord’s work. The German reissue label has decided there are no country, rockabilly or soul… – Alex Rawls

Tab Benoit: Fish Don't Just Jump In Your Boat
Tab Benoit becomes his own man, finally. Tab's fifth CD, The Blues Are All Mine, is his first studio release in… – Robert Fontenot

Vitamin L
Kateri Yager, formerly the Label Development Marketing Director for the now-defunct Big Easy Distributing Company, is a woman with a mission.… – Bunny Matthews

Kipori "Baby Wolf" Woods: Baby Wolf at the Gate
Young, handsome, black, hard-working, innovative, has a respect for tradition, oozes stage presence- Guitarist Kipori "Baby Wolf” Woods seems to have… – Jeff Hannusch
Little Freddie King: He's Lived the Blues
Perhaps because it is often mentioned as the birthplace of jazz, New Orleans isn't often mentioned as a hotbed for blues.… – Jeff Hannusch
Now He's a Man Way Past 21: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Grows Up
Kenny Wayne Shepherd may not have lived a full bluesman's life yet, or much of a life at all, since he's… – Robert Fontenot
Los Hombres Calientes Heat It Up
With a second, impressive release, Los Hombres Calientes proves the band’s multicultural agenda is no flash in the pan. As the… – Roger Hahn
B.B. Major: The Blues Major
Although B.B. Major is 62 years old, he is just starting to make a name for himself in the field of… – Jeff Hannusch
10 Years Ago in OffBeat: November
"You'd be surprised," Harry Connick, Jr. told interviewer Camille Barker ten years ago when asked about his fans. "I get a… – Bunny Matthews
Land of a Thousand Clubs: Mr. B's Lounge
Mr B’s Lounge, located at 4300 Washington Avenue in a building that formerly housed the Bank of New Orleans, is one… – Bunny Matthews
OffBeat Tracks: Chuck Carbo
Producer Dave Bartholomew has declared that "Chuck Carbo had the best voice to come out of New Orleans in the last… – Jeff Hannusch

Letter November 1999
THE INSANE SUPER-RICH Let me see if I have this straight, Ms. Ronstadt: Dump the televisions and computers in the alley,… – OffBeat Readers

Whose "Quality of Life"??...Lagniappe for Subscribers
Okay, my usual rant this month on local government being "anti-music"--but with a twist towards a potentially positive result. On Saturday… – Jan Ramsey

Jazz Dreams
First there was the Civil War TV series and then there was Baseball, offering an epic glimpse into the great American… – Jonathan Tabak