Issue Articles — Features
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 7
In late 1997, the Offbeat staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, Individually, represented influential and/or […]
Identity Crisis: Louisiana’s Guitar Gable Defends His Legacy
On 1956, Gabriel Perrodin, a native Bellevue, Louisiana, musician, traveled to Lake Charles to make a recording at Eddie Shuler’s Lake Charles studio. When the session didn’t come off as […]
Chris Ardoin: A Zydeco Family Affair
It’s long way from the gumbo’d vistas of Southwest Louisiana to the chowder’d climes of Rhode Island. But if the subject is Mardi Gras and the entertainment is Chris Ardoin […]
Happy Birthday, Gatemouth!
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown is a rarity: a roots musician who itches to move beyond the already known. His 50-plus year career has taken this Texas-born legend through the intricacies of […]
10th Anniversary of the Louisiana Hall of Fame
When her health began declining in the late nineteen-eighties, longtime musician Lou Gabus realized that performing was no longer an option. Encouraged by friend, Merle Haggard, Gabus embarked on a […]
All That: The Men From F.I.A.S.C.O.
The word sousaphunk isn’t in the dictionary. But someday it might be. The Sousaphunk Saga of All That began in 1994 when DJ Davis, WWOZ DJ and host of the […]
Dave Easley & Heartifacts
With his black hat and full, black beard, he resembles a character from a spaghetti western-except for the glasses. Mysterious looking enough to start, he is seated on stage, at […]
The Soul of Stavin’ Chain
Legendary TV producer Hugh Wilson, while down here in the Eighties producing the much lamented Frank’s Place, was moved to say this about his location: “There are four things you […]
100: The 100 Essential Louisiana CDs, Part 6
In late 1997, the OffBeat Staff began developing the list of the 100 Essential Louisiana CDs. Our goal was to pick the 100 compact discs that, individually, represented influential and/or […]
’99 New Orleans 30th Jazz & Heritage Festival
The 30th anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival will be held April 23-May 2. Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Branford Marsalis, Willie Nelson, Santana, The Isley Brothers, Widespread Panic, The […]
