Issue Articles — Features
OffBeat’s Best of the Beat Music Awards
Ever since we started publishing OffBeat in 1988, we’ve wanted to do something special to honor the great musicians and music industry people here in New Orleans-an awards event where […]
Carnival Tales: A Multitude of Local Minstrels Spin Tales of Mardi Gras of Yore
A multitude of local minstrels spin tales of Mardi Gras of yore. SEWING FEVER: BO DOLLiS AND MONK BOUDREAUX Big Chief Monk Boudreaux tries to describe the sewing fever […]
Brass Bands After World War II: A Crossroads
Editor’s note: Although no one has pinpointed when the music we now can jazz coalesced into an idiom, a September 1995 symposium held in New Orleans celebrated the 100-year mark. […]
Henry Butler’s Split Personality
New Orleans born pianist Henry Butler is both R&B and jazz, teacher and student, local and expatriate, disciplined and spontaneous – in other words, a player For All Seasons. […]
Armstrong Uber Alles
I like to think that the “Louis” in Louisiana is derived from the name of the King of Jazz rather from that of some remote Bourbon monarch. By that, of […]
Meet Kenny Wayne Shepherd
In the journeyman, dues-paying, endless one-nighter world of blues, isn’t nineteen years old a little young to strike it big? Some would say you’re supposed to suffer a little, or […]
OffBeat Editorial: Considering the Amusement Tax
For as long as OffBeat has been around — seven years this past August — we’ve heard complaints about the city’s amusement tax from music club owners who say that […]
Corey Harris: One Step Back, Two Steps Forward
In the hands of wise-beyond-his-years Corey Harris, traditional acoustic blues marches toward the 21st century. On this Tuesday night in early October the Mermaid Lounge is a sanctuary. The […]
