September 2002
BackTalk
Blues Hound
Cover Story
- Fifteen Years of OffBeat: 1988-2002
A trip through OffBeat’s back pages, or as Louis Armstrong once sang: “All that meat and no potatoes!” For those readers…
Dis 'n' Dat
Features
- OffBeat Tracks
In reintroducing OffBeat Tracks for the 15th Anniversary issue, we thought we’d play a few songs for legendary Frankie Ford—who was… - Masters of Louisiana Music: Harold "Duke" Dejan
In 1966, when the NAACP and the Zulu Carnival Club condemned the New Orleans second line tradition as demeaning to the…
Feed Me Something, Mister
Letters
Live Wire
- Fishbone, Howlin' Wolf, July 31, 2002
- Los Lobos, House of Blues, July 2, 2002
- Kidd Jordan, Andrew Cyrille & Elton Heron, The Blue Nile, August 17, 2002
- Hank III and Assjack, Tipitina's, August 2, 2002
- Flicker Film Festival, Shim Sham Club, July 19, 2002
- Satchmo Summerfest
- All That, Café Brasil, August 8, 2002
- Jurassic 5, House of Blues, August 8, 2002
- Robert Randolph & The Family Band, House of Blues, July 29, 2002
- A-1 Bingo!, Fiorella's Café, August 9, 2002
Mojo Mouth
- Mojo Mouth: Laboring For Love
Believe it or not, OffBeat is the longest gig I’ve ever had. Fifteen years is a long time to work anywhere,…
Talkin' 'bout New Orleans
Reviews
- The Sensations, Boogie on the Bayou (Jin Records)
- B.B. King, The Vintage Years (Ace)
- Peter Case, Beeline (Vanguard)
- Chucho Valdes, Fantasia Cubana: Variations on Classical Themes (Blue Note)
- Junior Kimbrough, You Better Run: The Essential Junior Kimbrough (Fat Possum)
- Choppa and DJ Jubilee Present P-Popper/Club Hopper, Take Fo' Superstars Greatest Hits (Take Fo' Records)
- Lil' Wayne, 500 Degreez (Cash Money)
- Popa Chubby, The Good The Bad and The Chubby (Blind Pig)
- Sax Kari, Fumigate Funky Broadway: The New Orleans Sessions (Night Train International)
- John "Kid" Simmons' International All Stars, "Live in Store" at the Lousiana Music Factory (504 Records)
- Mike West, New South (Squirrel/Binky Records)
- Jeff & Vida, The Simplest Plans (Squirrel/Binky Records)
- A Train, Volume 1 (A-Train/Overdue) and Volume 2 (Live At Humprees/River of People) (Bluebird Records)
- Paul Thorn, Mission Temple Fireworks Stand (Back Porch)
- Frankie Ford, Night Songs (Briarmeade Records)
- Solomon Burke, Don't Give Up On Me (Fat Possum)
- Hasil Adkins, Out To Hunch (Norton Records)
- Derek Douget: Perpetual Motion (Lockout Records)
Saxophonist Derek Douget gets the ball of Perpetual Motion whirling by opening up with a burner that derives a ton of… - Donald Harrison, Real Life Stories (Nagel Heyer)
- Elvis Presley, Roots Revolution: The Louisiana Hayride Recordings (Tomato)
- The Holmes Brothers, Righteous! The Essential Collection (Rounder Heritage)
- Coolbone, Old School Flava (Jenjaz)
- Professor Longhair, Big Chief/Rum and Coke (Tomato)
- Leroy Jones, Back to My Roots (Independent)
- Lynn Drury and Bad Mayo, The Trophy Session (Independent)
- Anders Osborne & Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Bury the Hatchet (Shanachie)
