January 2001
BackTalk
- Kidd Jordan
Saxophonist Edward "Kidd" Jordan, a native of Crowley, Louisiana, is the recipient of OffBeat’s first Lifetime Achievement Award for Music Education.…
Bluesworthy
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Chassez De Faim
Dis 'n' Dat
- Good Goth! It's Borgessa!
What is Goth? The Teutonic barbarians who conquered the Roman Empire in the 3rd-century? Suburban kids dressed in black with a…
Features
- Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement in Music Award: Earl King
- Best of the Beat Lifetime Achievement Award: Floyd Soileau
Can Cajun French music survive in a new millennium? Floyd Soileau of Ville Platte, who has recorded, produced and distributed the… - Best of the Beat 2000 winners
- Masters of Louisiana Music: Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones
Born: December 10, 1926 Greenwood, MS Died: February 7, 1959 New York, NY “He was the performanest man I ever seen.”—Earl… - The Houseman
I met Thery “the Houseman” DeClouet for a chat on Election Day, 2000 at his aunt’s house on his Hollygrove home… - "Jazz" a Film by Ken Burns
Ill-literate
Letters
- Letters January 2001
REKOOPERATION Your article [by Roger Hahn] regarding Child Is Father To The Man was right on the money. That album is…
Mojo Mouth
- Beatitude
Congratulations to this year’s OffBeat Best of The Beat award winners, and especially to the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Awards.…
St. Rock
Straight, No Chaser
Take Two
Talkin' 'bout New Orleans
Reviews
- Louisiana's Kingfish, Life in a One-Horse Town (MTE Records)
- Various Artists, Deep River of Song: Virginia and the Piedmont (Rounder)
- Diamonds, Solemnly Yours (Endangered Species/Louisiana Red Hot Records)
- Forked View, From Time's Tomb-Warts and All (Banging Pots Music)
- Trans Bayou Express, Voyage Dans le Pays Cajun (Independent)
- Amy Adams and the Hank Sinatras, Ladies Must Dress (Independent)
- Prodigy of Mobb Deep, H.N.I.C. (Loud Records)
- The Ole Tymers Cajun Band, The Ole Tymers Cajun Band (Acadiana Sounds)
- Com'n Groove, Groovematic (Independent)
- Thelonious Monk, The Complete Prestige Recordings (Prestige/Fantasy)
- Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum, Quarteto Jobim Morelenbaum (Velas)
- Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Money Shot (Fog City Records)
- Barbara Lynn, Hot Night Tonight (Antone's Records)
- Max LaBry, For the Cowboy's Sake (Lonyo Tunes)
- Richard Carr, When Soul and Heart Collide (Rec'd Music)
- Scott Dunbar, From Lake Mary (Fat Possum/Epitaph)
- Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis, You Win Again (Pointblank/Virgin)
- Various Artists, Creole Classique: Music for a New Orleans Soiree (Gumbo)
- Cogent Woe, Valium Coated Mantra (Something)
- Muvovum, Muvovum (Independent)
- Ice Mike, Ghetto (White Label Music)
- Willie West, When Love Ain't There…(Gift Records)
The latest from West is of the highest order. It would be foolish to compare these recordings to those of old,… - Danny O'Flaherty, Listen to the Wind (Hy-Brasyl Productions)
- Van Broussard & The Bayou Boogie Band, 2000 (CSP Records)
- Motorway, Underwater Demolition (Surge)
- Cyril Neville, New Orleans Cookin' (Endangered Species/Louisiana Red Hot records)
- Cyril Neville, Soul-O (Endangered Species/Louisiana Red Hot records)
- Cyril Neville & The Uptown Allstars, The Fire this Time (Endangered Species/Louisiana Red Hot records)
- Various Artists, Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music (Columbia Legacy/Verve)
