February 2005
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- MC Trachiotomy's Love Thing
My House is an Uptown center for learning, where I teach Music Journalism to elementary-aged kids. Since beginning back in September,…
BackTalk
- Arthur Hardy
Appearing In New Orleans: Nightly during Carnival, live from the parade routes on WDSU-TV and WWL radio. There is…
Bayou Boogie
- Mouth to Mouth with Jamie Bergeron
Jamie Bergeron could tell something was wrong. Most people were dancing and having fun as his Kickin’ Cajuns band entertained the…
Bluesworthy
Cover Story
- C.C. Adcock: Exile on Jefferson Street
Jefferson Street, downtown Lafayette, Louisiana. The heavy glass door is unlocked, and inside is a long, narrow staircase that leads to…
Dis 'n' Dat
- A Rosebud Is A Rosebud Is A Rosebud
Just down the street from Baby Rosebud accorganist Courtney Lain’s place of employment, there is a movie filming about the corporate…
Features
- Carnival Tales: Various Mardi Gras Stories from Locals
Apropos to this season of mirth and merriment, OffBeat asked a festive selection of local musicians for their favorite Mardi Gras… - The Best Of the Beat Awards
Blues BEST BANDClarence "Gatemouth" BrownALBUMClarence "Gatemouth" Brown: TimelessEMERGINGWashboard Chaz Blues Trio R&B/Funk/Soul BEST BANDPapa Grows FunkALBUMDr. John: N'Awlinz: Dis, Dat or… - Carnival 2005
Feed Me Something, Mister
Jazzin'
- A Living Center of Music
At the end of February, noted trumpeter Dave Douglas arrives in New Orleans for the first time. While he is, of…
Letters
- Letters February 2005
BITING HIS TYPEWRITERRob Fontenot wrote a good review about my last CD which (I think) helped get it into the top…
Mojo Mouth
- The Party and the Music
It’s Party Gras time. Being the curmudgeon that I am, that “Party Gras” crap really annoys me. Yeah, we throw the…
Urban Legends
Reviews
- Samir Jordan, Tamaas (Daqui/ Harmoni Mundi)
Brothers Samir and Wissam Joubran hail from a musical family from Nazareth in the Galilee and play absolutely stunning music on… - Dianne Montalbano Brant, Songs My Daddy Sang (Independent)
As an only child growing up in the Irish Channel, Dianne Brant was surrounded by love and music. Her father, the… - Ollabelle, Ollabelle (DMZ/Columbia)
Ollabelle (named in honor of country singer Ola Belle Reed) is an interesting sextet consisting of a front line of lead… - Dr. Lonnie Smith, Too Damn Hot (Palmetto)
Organ king Dr. Lonnie Smith gets down with a second line groove on “Norleans” which opens this swinging album. The veteran’s… - Sweet Pea's Revenge, Side Road to Paradise (Independent)
Not too many bands can claim their moniker was inspired by a cantankerous street person. Back in Pea’s embryonic formation where… - Denise Marie, Message from Aphrodite (Little Hummingbird Music)
Since settling in the Crescent City nearly a decade ago, Denise Marie has certainly become ensconced within her more humid environs… - Tony Bennett, The Art of Romance (Columbia)
Simultaneously intimate and epic, Tony Bennett’s The Art of Romance is a delicate and lovely recording perfectly enhanced with the subtleties… - Jamie Bergeron and the Kickin' Cajuns, Garde Pas Ca (Totally Swamped Recordings)
When he’s not reviving heart attack victims in the midst of mayhemic gigs, EMT Jamie Bergeron dishes up his signature sonic… - Nirvana, With the Lights Out (Geffen)
When suggesting to a new listener an introduction to an artist, it’s usually a bad idea to point them towards an… - Country Fried, Nowhere No More (Independent)
There’s only so many clichés a band can toss in a song until it becomes downright silly. Country Fried have perfected… - The Malvinas, Love, Hope + transportation (3-Legged Dog Productions)
When you’re an all-women folk trio separated by 3,832 miles, love, hope and plenty of transportation aren’t a bad thing to… - Branford Marsalis Quartet, A Love Supreme (Marsalis Music)
It’s odd that these two albums should have been released within months of each other. It’s certain that this wasn’t done… - Jay Weigel, The River May Cry (Independent)
The oratorio “The River May Cry” was commissioned for the opening of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in August 2003.… - Bluerunners, Honey Slides (Bayou Vista Records)
Never mind that Lafayette’s Bluerunners have stuck it out longer than the majority of bands working the Hub City scene. Regrets,… - Adam's Attic, In the Blink of An Eye (Independent)
Upon both listening to their new EP ...in the Blink of an Eye and reading their press release, it seems all… - The Soul Rebels, Rebelution (Barnburner)
For those comrades expecting a Marxist brass band musically espousing the teachings of H. Rap Brown, Huey P. Newton and Dr.… - Lucy's Walk, The Long Way Around (712 Records)
- Ivy, In the Cellar (Nettwerk America)
- Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, Zydeco's Got Soul (BFR Records)
- Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, A Love Supreme (Palmetto)
- Magnolia Sisters, Apres Le Boogie Woogie (Rounder)
- The Funky Meters, Live from NO Jazzfest (Shout! Factory)
- BeauSoileil, Live from NO Jazzfest (Shout! Factory)
