Here’s OffBeat’s video tribute to the people and events that shaped New Orleans and Louisiana music history through the years on March 16, enjoy… Have a special Louisiana music moment that you’d like to add to our timeline? Email us at info@offbeat.com. 1892: Birth of trombonist Isaiah “Big Ike” Robinson in Thibodeaux 1902: Birth of [...]
Tag Archives: Charlie Miller
What’s in the Bag, Santa?
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
Christmas music is so purpose-driven that it’s easy to dismiss it, but many artists are inspired by the holiday. At their worst, they find a way to inhabit and freshen up traditional gestures and thoughts; at their best, they create new music that’s personal and public, that’s simultaneously common but idiosyncratic. Some manage the balance [...]
What Will Santa Say?
December 1, 2009 – 12:01 am
The adults are sitting around a table on the back porch, some with beer, some with coffee. They’re swapping wisecracks and stories while the kids are upstairs. Coats are tossed in a corner, and the Christmas lights are strung with semi-deliberation in one of the rooms of the house. It could be Christmas, but it [...]
