Tyler Deneau remembers it like it was yesterday.

It was the spring of 1994. Deneau and Molly Magwire, his partner in life as well as the band Rhudabega, were having a barbecue at a friend's house in their native Detroit when an inspiration struck him. "I just said, 'Man, let's move to New Orleans,'" Deneau recalls. "Four months later, we sold everything we owned except our instruments, jumped in a van and drove down here."

If Rhudabega's divine calling resonates with a little New Orlean...