Call it a match made in roots music heaven. Scott Billington, a two-time Grammy producer with Rounder Records, has recorded more than 100 CDs of Louisiana music, ranging from Cajun to brass bands. Billington is currently working on a companion CD for Swamp People, the popular History Channel show that follows gator hunters. Johnette [...]
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Louisiana Music Timeline: October 27-28
October 27, 2012 – 11:09 am
OCTOBER 27 1933: Birth of piano player, session man and songwriter Floyd Cramer born in Campti, Louisiana. 1948: Birth of blues man Sherman Robertson born in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. 1951: Happy Birthday to producer Scott Billington. Produced albums by Gatemouth Brown, James Booker, Irma Thomas and many others. 1954: Happy Birthday to trumpeter and vocalist [...]
February 2012 Letters
February 1, 2012 – 12:01 am
JOHNNY AND SCOTT I first came across OffBeat back in the 1990s. I had discovered this new singer,
YouTube du Jour: The Soul Rebels
January 27, 2012 – 9:40 am
Yesterday on WWOZ, OffBeat‘s Lifetime Achievement in Music Business honoree Scott Billington recommended that people see
Best of the Beat Business Awards: Photos
January 26, 2012 – 4:43 pm
Wednesday night, OffBeat celebrated the best of New Orleans and Louisiana’s music business community with the Best of the Beat Music Business Awards at the newly-opened Joy Theater. Irvin Mayfield’s Mayfield Productions was awarded Music Business of the Year, and Lifetime Achievement Awards were presented to George Porter, Jr. in music and Scott Billington in [...]
Best of the Beat: On Schedule and On TV
January 23, 2012 – 11:52 am
[Updated] The Best of the Beat takes place Friday night at Generations Hall, and we now have a final schedule for the night. We’ll have music on two stages, and bands will play 45 minute sets. Front Room 6 p.m. – Aurora Nealand and the Royal Roses 7 p.m. – Glen David Andrews 9:45 [...]
Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Business Award: Scott Billington
January 1, 2012 – 12:14 am
It’s hard to explain what Scott Billington has meant to New Orleans and Louisiana music in the past two plus decades. These following words must suffice: Classified. Give Him Cornbread. Funk is in the House. Irma Thomas. Tangle Eye. Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-Chas. The Houseman Cometh. Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band [...]
Back to the Best of the Beat Awards
December 1, 2011 – 12:03 am
George Matters. Buttons and T-shirts proclaimed this simple truth years ago, and on Friday, January 27, 2012, OffBeat agrees when we recognize the great George Porter, Jr. with our Lifetime Achievement in Music at the Best of the Beat. Once again, OffBeat will recognize excellence in the South Louisiana music scene, and we will return [...]
Irma Thomas, The Soul Queen of New Orleans: 50th Anniversary Celebration (Rounder)
November 1, 2009 – 12:09 am
On which we celebrate the Queen’s 49th anniversary in show business, actually, counting from her first single, 1960’s “Don’t Mess with My Man.” But given the Queen, who wants to count? This celebration only counts material from the last quarter-century, too, finding Thomas’ voice huskier and just a touch more mannered than over her first [...]
