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Modern Times
The 2005 Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival was everything Jazz Fest used to be: small, local and funky. Out-of-towners made up maybe 10 per cent of the crowd, which was dominated […]
Drinking on the Job
A house filled with folks, great music, and free-flowing alcohol would only seem like a hard day at the office if you count the recovery time involved, but it’s a […]
The Top 50 Louisiana CDs of 2006
Selected from nearly 300 Louisiana releases, Hurricane Katrina hasn’t slowed us down, our 2006 Critics’ Choice of the year’s finest musical offerings was a joint effort of OffBeat’s editors and […]
Lost In Music
OUR SPACE Bob Dylan: Modern Times (Sony) Chandler Travis: Tarnation & Alastair Sim (Iddy Biddy) Sonny Rollins: Sonny Please (Doxy) Tom Russell: Love and Fear (Hightone) Kidd Jordan. Hamid Drake, […]
The Boys’ Life: Wilson Savoy and the Pine Leaf Boys
For Wilson Savoy and Cedric Watson, forming the Pine Leaf Boys has helped them reconnect to their roots. On the second Friday of this year’s Jazz Fest, the Pine […]
Stompin’ at the Savoy Faire
Tucked away in an old Acadian-style house standing in a picturesque field on the outskirts of Eunice lies Studio Savoy Faire, where a number of great recordings and more than […]
Jazz Fest 2000: From A to Z
When you want to make a complicated thing simple, you break it down to the ABCs. When you want to get a handle on an event as sprawling as Jazz […]
