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Plca\C otllmv a lc" \\eck' for pn>cc,\lng and dcll\el) ul order-. New Suh,cnhcr-: Plca'c allow up h> "' "'cck' fur receipt n t lir't i"uc due In uur ''1lall. non mmputerizcd .\Uh\Cripllon dcpanmenl. ht4 h>retgn cu,tmncr- may pay hy I M 0 ur chcd dr." n una U S bank Bccau\C of cxnrhttant h SIPI'IMIIIR ••.., ...... 3 • .Conference On How To Research Black . Music To Be Held Here Historical researth can be an ex citing business.It's a slow and often laborious process, but anyone who Schedule of Papers has spent time studying source The fo llowing is the schedule of material knows the thrill of discov papers to be delivered at the ery as a picture starts to form amid National Conference On Black a plethora of documents. Sometimes Music Research and subsequently in Black Music Research the picture is rather blurry, and not published Beausoleil's Michael Doucet. exactly what you expected, and this Journal. is where the real problem begins Thursday, October IS because it's the interpretation of the 1-5 p.m., Registration, Exhibits, &eausoleil: blurrs which separate the historian Demonstrations Music In Flux from the writer of mere "potted" 5-7 p.m., Reception histories. The National Conference Friday, October 16 The first question to raise about On Black Music Research, which 9 a.m., Session I. Researching Beausoleil's Bayou Boogie is one of meets at the New Orleans Sheraton Black Religious Music In New purity vs. wider appeal - just how Hotel October 15-17, probably Orleans easily can the group's earnest won't of itself make hi storians of 10:30 a.m., Session 2. Research Cajun/zydeco sound exist alongside any of us, but it will offer valuable ing Jazz in New Orleans its newfound rock element? knowledge of some of the nuts and 2 p.m., Session 3. Researching Leader Michael Doucet was ex bolts of research into Afro New Orleans-Chicago Con pecting that one. American music. nections " I consider myself a traditionalist This will be the second con 3:30p.m., Session 4. Researching who experiments," Doucet said. " I ference organized by the Center For Late-Nineteemh-Cemury Black will never, ever, come close to sell Black Music Research of Columbia Concert Music In New Orleans ing out. There's too much schlock College, Chrcago. (They held their Saturday, October 17 in our culture right now. Fifteen first one two years ago in Washing 9 a.m., Session 5. Researching years ago, when I was very ada ton, D.C.) This year's meeting will Creole and Cajun Musics mant about preserving the acoustic describe methods and tools of re 10:30 a.m., Session 6. Research sound, all you heard was electric searching black music in the New ing Zydeco MtHic sounds. Now you hear mediocre Orleans area including black 2 p.m., Session 7. Researching acoustic sounds that are supposed to religious music, jazz (both in New New Orleans Rhwhm and Blues be traditional.'' Orleans and during the Chicago 3 p.m., Session 8. Using the Actually Beausoleil's use of migratory period), zydeco, Creole CBMR Database and the CBMR electric guitars and keyboards has a and Cajun music, rhythm and blues Bulletin Board for Researching precedent. Doucet was in Coteau, and late Nineteenth Century black Black Music which during the period 1975-'77 concert music. The final presenta Further information about the was termed "the Cajun Grateful tion will be a particularly intriguing conference can be obtained from Dead." Doucet said it was really prospect for researchers; a new Dr. Barron at Tulane Un more of a melting pot of Louisiana computerized data bank of black iversity's Music Department, or styles. and the same goes for Bayou music which draws material from by writing to Gail Scholler at Boog1e. six Chicago-area institutions, and Columbra College, Chicago, "On some songs on the record, which one day is likely to become a· 600 South Michigan Ave., Chi we don't veer - we play acoustic national repository. cago, IL 60605. 312/663-1600. instruments," he said. "But on Of added musical interest, and other songs, rt's from that Coteau running concurrently with this con era. It has a drffercnt drumbeat. I ference, will be meetings of the think it showcases more the music College Music Society and the Discovered AI Last of Louisiana and the different styles American Musicological Society. Local songwriter Margaret Harsh that have been nurtured here - Numerous concerts are scheduled, man, 80 years young, and her son, swamp-pop, older traditional songs, plus discussions on Louisiana's John Frentz, president of the traditional songs with a twist, and musical culture. Louisiana Songwriters' Association new songs written by Sonny Land A lot of this may seem academic (Margaret is past vice-president), reth and me." to the casual music listener. arc the authors of "Mardi Gras," a While Beausoleil simply reached However, if Afro-American music song chosen by the U.S. Navy Steel into an early form of itself for some is ever to be fully recognized as the Band for therr upcoming album. of its electric sounds, Doucet was great and pervasive force that it is, Now retired and living in the quick to remind us of how the mus detailed documentation needs to be Wynhoven Apartments in New ic has come to employ what has be done. Biography, history and critic Orleans, Margaret was thrilled "to come the "accepted" Cajun-music al analysis are needed on the level be discovered at last·' through one instrumentation. so long enjoyed by European mus of her more than 2,000 songs she "The music has always grown. ic. The National Conference On has been writing since age 16. Son You got to understand, when the Black Music Research promises John serves as the administrative Cajuns first played the accordion, it help to those of us who aspire to assistant to the pastor of the St. was a big shock. This music did not record this black contribution. It Louis Cathedral. "Mardi Gras" iriclude the accordion until around will advise us on the use of the was written in 1956 and has been 1900. It was an instrument totally • many source materials. After that played for 17 years at the meeting out of our culture. It is now repre we're on our own. of the courts of Comus and Rex and sentative of our culture. In 1799, a in a jazzy calypso form by the U.S. traveling Spanish writer went to -Andy Ridley Navy Steel Band since 1965. Opelousas where he heard a guy 4 ...... SIPIIM8ER • named Prejean playing both fiddle can't remain stagnant, but at the and clarinet. The Cajun and French same time it can't cheapen itself music in Louisiana has always been just to appease a mundane Amer in flux. from F~rdinand LaMothe to ican audience, or any other kind of back over here." audience. So, just because we seem to be • "My ideal is to create and find on the verge of hearing about Cajun new songs, and new ways of doing bagels or Cajun snow tires is no older songs that have been forgot reason to worry about Beausoleil di ten. It's my ambition to make these luting its music out of existence. songs live. It was a lot of fun to do "You have to deal with this the album. All the songs were so over-selling of the word 'Cajun.' different. But you can't have ideas They'll sell anything. I go to restau about getting rich. What you have rants all over the state and see to put first is the value of the mus things on the menu with 'Cajun' in ic ." it - burnt mirlitons or something, you know what I mean? Our music -Vincent Fumar • LE"I'TERS To the Editor: three years while attending Tulane I just read Rick Coleman's Reissues and always made sure to grab a section in your July issue in which he Wavelength copy every single month comments on, among other things, (I've got quite a good collection!!), the Aladdin and Imperial doo wop however since I left N .0. in 1983 albums that I helped put together for never had the chance to read it again. EMI-America. He made a couple of Browsing through some back observations that I'd like to elaborate issues I found out you accepted fore upon. ign subscriptions. I felt really happy First, I am the one who wrote the about it and now I only would like to liner notes for both albums. even confirm that regard and the current though the coordinator - .Steve foreign subscription fees (I read it was Robinson. alias Steve Brigati - put $20. U.S. foreign but that was back in his name on both of them along with 1983.) I'm very much fond of New mine. (See attached letter copy.) I Orleans' musical heritage and most of take full blame for the gaffe about the South's to say the truth. I particu Dave Bartholomew's association with larly love the blues and good R&B. the Ellington band. I picked it up People like: Muddy Waters, Guitar somewhere, but I'm assuming that Slim, Irma Thomas, Albert King, Rick Coleman's knowledge of New Earl King, Buddy Guy. etc. I men Orleans R&B surpasses mine. tioned all those Chicago blues scene Second, when I turned in my ack guys like A. King and Waters be nowledgments, I included Lynn cause, to me, the blues is the South's Abbott's name. After all, I did "plun own property, it's the birthplace, der" his research. But again, Steve where it's really rooted and felt. Robinson alias Brigati undermined Where the feeling and inspiration me by removing several of the names I come from. turned in and adding a couple of his However, I must recognize Chica own (including his brother, Tim go and thank Chicago as the perfect Robinson, who had nothing to do with showcase for an art form which was either project.) very much depicted by the recording I was working on a third album down south. (Thurston Harris) when I discovered I'd also like to ask you to give my that Robinson/Brigati had defrauded best regards to Mason Ruffner (yeah, me and pocketed $300 of liner note that white blues dude from Fort money. I left the project at that point, Worth, TX) and maybe tell him to and Robinson/Brigati remained de write a couple of lines to this old fan of spite my complaints to EMI-America his. Well, this is all for the moment, Friday, management. hoping to read from you soon I'd like September 11 Recently, EMI-America merged to remain, Tipitina's in New Orleans with another company and all the peo Luis A. Barrero, Jr. ple involved with the rhythm and Merida Saturday, blues repackaging were dropped - Yucatan, Mexico September 12 poetic justice, I suppose, although The Chimes in Baton Rouge I' m sorry to see a worthy enterprise go down the toilet. To the Editor: · Just wanted to set the record Enclosed please find a check for a straight. Jim Dawson first-class subscription to your maga Hollywood, California zine. I'm a native New Awlinian forced to move to St. Louis because of my job. I find your magazine very helpful To the Editor: when planning my frequent visits Through the present letter, I'd like back home. to let you know of my interest about Louis Manito, Jr. your wonderful magazine. KSDK-TV I lived in New Orleans for almost St. Louis. Missouri SIPIIMIIIR • Wavele...... • s -In Search of the Local Bijou From the heart of deepest darkest CBD to the asphalt jungles of Metairie come the moviegoers. BY .JOHN DESPLAS nless you are fortunate enough out of the car and dash to the box to summer abroad, you may office to purchase a ticket for the fea still find the best way to beat the ture that begins in thirty seconds. In Uheat in· the Big Easy is -at the local deed, for those who pride themselves Bijou ... except there is no more local on Making an Entrance as the house Bijou, or for that matter, Roxy, lights dim, the Galleria is a formid Strand, Imperial, Escorial, or Rivoli. able challenge. If you're coming from Instead, it's Cinema One thru Ten. (In Orleans Parish, there's an obstacle L.A. there is now a Cineplex Odeon course that must be mastered before 18.) But the main attractions remain: you gain admission to what in another plenty of air-conditioning and es time was a temple of the Muse and capist movie fare. In the spirit of a today is Screen One. back-to-school essay, a riff on "How First there are the hairpin turns off I Spent My Summer Vacation," I've the interstate and onto the service gathered some rich thoughts on both road. A wrong turn and you're at the the suburban moviegoing experience Super Store. In the best of all possible (the new Galleria) and what remains worlds, Harry Lee would have crews of the downtown alternative (the painting green lines from the Cause Downtown Joy). way South exits to the parking en Sports fans who regularly attend trance to the Galleria and red lines events at the Superdome are psy leading from the exits to the on-ramps chologically more prepared for the at Bonnabel and Causeway. This is task of negotiating admittance to the kind of public works project that Metairie's newest multiplex, the the Eighties call for. AMC Galleria 8. You don't just hop Once you've entered Oz, new tasks Rene Brunot and the Joy: A remnant of individualism. ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK IKO IKO P£RFOR•·EOBY %YDECO GRIS GRIS •••· _ l ' THE DIXIE CUPS THE BEAUSOLEIL TIPITINA •E••o•,•to sv OH YEH YAI "'~ v ,,. . 4 I. J "t ~ \ • ISLANO RECOROS 14 EAST 411\ STREET NYC 10020 6 • ..,...... SEPIIM8ER ger. that he was "going through a loom. The first six levels or so are would do the Cheshire Cat proud. He Summer School is the last of the old-time showmen. stage·· and several months from now parking area. While there is ample things would be different. After brief space, timing is everything. If the Mercifully. John Hughes has taken and his theatres, the Downtown Joy and the Downtown State - retain ly considering her words, he seemed previous feature is letting out at the the summer off. and Carl Reiner, who to buy into her theory of "stages." moment of your arrival, you may have learned his ABCs from McGuffy, is some of the quirky individualism that characterized movie houses when "You know. you're probably right. to wait till the traffic clears; on the taking his place in Summer School. Last year I was. really into other hand, if you arrive too early you Demonstrating that the old methods there were "naborhood theatres" as opposed to shopping mall cinemas. skateboards, doing all kinds of fancy may need to send scouts ahead to were best, he doesn't take the kids as tricks to show off. But I'm past that search out an empty spot. One solu seriously as they are wont to take On the Loyola A venue side of the Joy. on a small segment of the marquee stage now. I only use my skateboard tion is to switch your moviegoing themselves (vide The Breakfast for transportation. " night from a Saturday to a Monday. I Club). Yes, class, you have your pro visible only to pedestrians walking toward Canal Street. are the words And what about the new James also have difficulty remembering pre blems but turn in your homework and Bond'! Well. Timothy Dalton was an cisely where I parked the damn car. then you can fight-for-your-right-to OH WELL. Can you imagine an AMC or a GCC or a UA allowing such inspired choice and he created some Perhaps the AMC management could party. Reiner dispenses with the excitement about a new Bond flick take a cue from a firm in California Adolescent Psychology stuff in a an existential statement? For any moviegoer who believes after twenty-five years of formulaic that labels each parking level after a brisk and cursory manner- eg. teen SPY vs. SPY. Unfortunately. Dalton famous movie, e.g. Gone With the pregnancy should be avoided because there can never be too many trailers (movie biz jargon for "coming attrac is the only thing that's new, and he Wind, The Wizard of Oz. Star Wars young girls are not ready for such can do only so much to revive the complete with poster art and theme responsibilities, OK?-and then gets tions" or "prevues"), the Qowntown Joy is a motherlode. During late Bond character within the confines of music to assist more forgetful patrons. on with the business of displaying the same numbing special effects Upon arriving at the box office, nubile flesh and tossing out scatter spring I saw almost a dozen trailers in fresh-faced teens greet you in such a shot yocks. The Deep Meaning of All one seating. a preview of half the sequences. Thoug h L'tvmg . D ayI' tg hts cheery fashion you know they can al This is that your teen years are the summer's film releases. has more explosions than I can ways find work at Shoney's. And the time to be, in John "Pink Flamingos" Recently the Joy's lobby had a remember in a single film, the vio concession counter reinforces-the fast Waters' felicitous phrase, "young, facelift that greatly simplified the en lence is of the old school: there are no food motif with its McDonald's-style rich, nude, and stupid." Sigh. It rrance to the lhree different screens. lovingly depicted scenes of guts and serving lines. Howver, once you have makes for a surpri$ingly fizzy ninety and fortunately. the downstairs au gore.just lots of bang-you're-dead. I performed these tasks and have finally minutes, the movie equivalent of a ditorium still has the large screen from couldn't, for the life of me, figure out arrived into the theatre proper you are frisbee. Even Mark Harmon, erst the glory days of downtown moviego what the hell was going on during the rewarded with state-of-the-art projec while sexiest man alive, is agreeably ing. It was here while waiting for an protracted finale in the desert; it might tion. Even if the movie is lousy, you goofy. Empty calories, but not harm afternoon performance of the new as well have been random footage. can't help but luxuriate in the crisp, ful. James Bond film. The Li1•ing Day But I understand the film has been vivid images and the clear, dynamic lights, that I overheard one of the breaking box office records through sound. Joy more memorable exchanges in a out the world so expect twenty-five On a recent visit I caught up with a movie theatre. Two teenagers were years more of the same. What kept the movie that probably typifies most of Rene Brunet has been "in exhibi chatting about their friends when the afternoon from being a total bust was the other summer movies I missed. tion" since Lassie was a pup (never older, a girl around seventeen years the kids going through their stages and What fallows is from my personal mind which Lassie). 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Metairie, LA 70006 • Mon.-Fri. 11-7, Sat 10-6 455-2168. 455-2187 ...,.._ ...... 7 -NlP REPORT rect the heat toward the pig. It may have been vigorously rubbed down with salt and pepper and riddled with inserts of garlic cloves, or it may be ~ What Cajuns Are Made Of left unseasoned until after roasting. That depends on the roaster. - Pigmeat and rice The good news out of cochon de Iait with pepper for spice? country is that the festival is back. It was stopped for a long time because it had gotten out of hand. Too many BY STEVE ARNIBRUSTER people. The locals could not handle it. Hippies everywhere. People sleeping ansura is a small farming still never tasted a piece of blackened in the Catholic church. Even the community about the size redfish, cochon de lait was their Hell's Angels showed up. Shut it of Mamou. Most of its in "national dish." This was the food down, they agreed, only they said it in Mhabitants still speak French, as they they might have for their Thanksgiv French. Now it has resumed. Happy have ever since their town was found ing. along with dirty rice, sweet pota days are here again. (Ed. note: This ed by former soldiers of Napoleon. toes, zydeco (snap beans), baked \'ear it will be held in October.) Although the region is Cajun to the macaroni, and pecan pie. This was a · The other big news is the "Cajun core, it is often overlooked by books dish their ancestors had brought with microwave.'' It is a technological about that culture. This is probably them from France. one they main advance that has trimmed the cooking because it hes so far north, almost to tained over generations. time and removed most of the work of Alexandria. People don't think of The name implies that it is made a cochon de Ia it. Young entrepreneurs Acadiana as going that far. They seem with milk-fed, young pig. "Lait" from Marksville to Calcasieu are to think it ends around Ville Platte means milk, "cochon" is pig. This making small fortunes with this revo somewhere. They fail to see Mansura part of the prescription is rarely fol lutionary new device. It is a wooden as a repository of vital customs and lowed. The crucial thing is how the box large enough to hold a pig. A Cajun technologies. They do not real pig is cooked. First of all , the pig is metal pan for holding hardwood bri ize this town is both the "cochon de whole; secondly. it is charcoal quets fits down over the entire top. lait capital of the world" and also the roasted. This has normally been done When lighted, the heat from the char i home of "the Cajun microwave." over a pit. A large pile of wood is coal will radiate through the thin met 2 In the 1960s the Cochon de Lait shielded on three sides by sheets of al and roast the meat. The entire proc l Festival was a major celebration. It corrugated tin. The pig, enfolded in a ess can now be finished in about four • ranked right up there with the Breaux piece of metal fencing, like a press, to hours. The box can last for years, and ~~~~~----~------~~! Bridge Crawfish Festival as one of keep it intact whi le it roasts, is sus most of the proceeds go to some local . this state's biggest events. People pended just in front of and above the high school. a key fact about many Cajuns and came from far and near to take part in glowing embers. It spends some time The fact that more junior achieve their diet (or, "cuisine," if you pre the fun, but especially other Cajuns hanging down nose-first and some ment groups make "Cajun micro fer). The vast majority of them are came. To them. most of whom have time reversed. The tin sheets help di- waves·' than crabtraps shou ld suggest farmers, and they eat mostly what ~OR~IbbA FbA~S HERE FOR GOOD EST. 1974 br~akfast w~~k-~nd brunch lunch ESPLANADE AT DECATUR • MARGARITAVILLE aw they raise. Seafood can be a staple for Milwaukee, St. Louis, Texas, and Quarter. To a Cajun, "Ia boucherie" stuffed pork chops gigantic. those who live near the coast, but the even New Orleans. is a work party where folks came J!Joyd Poche now heads this family larger numbers of Cajuns who live Coffee is another staple beverage, together to put up meat for the winter. business. He told me he smokes his inland would traditionally see shrimp, and it is also imported. Cajuns begin One or more hogs are slaughtered, the meats with pecan wood. Of course, oysters, or saltwater fish only on rare their day with coffee, even before the meat is cut and portioned, sausages this makes perfect sense. It is abun occasions. A seafood store near Eu sun has fully risen if they are farmers; are made, lard is rendered, cracklins dant and gives a good flavor. nice is far more likely to offer alligator and it is usually the finish to their are fried, backbones are cooked into a Inside the store, Floyd h.as a large gar and casburgot, a.k.a. "goofish," evening meal. If you are a child fricassee, and everybody takes some cooler to display his products. Nearby than red snapper or speckled trout. accompanying your parents on a visit food home with them. shelves also hold a combination of The folks who live there or near, say, to some of their friends or relatives Cajun country is a place where an basic groceries and some local Plaucheville or Goudeau would thus and you are anxious to go home to douille and tasso are very familiar. specialties like homemade chow be more familiar with garfish boulet watch television of maybe go to Wai New Orleans is a place where these chow and pickled quail eggs. A small tes or goofish in white gravy than with Marts, you will constantly run up are relatively new items in the grocery steam table keeps some items hot: broiled flounder stuffed with crab against these halting words: "Just stores. Cajun country is a place where stuffed pork roast, potatoes fried in meat. wait 'til we finish our coffee." And people from New Orleans can go to lard, stewed vegetables du jour. Most familiar of all, however, Cajuns do not drink their coffee very discover what boudin, churice, and Tables dot the back room, allowing would be the products of the farm: fast. chaudin (stuffed pork stomach) are you to sit down and enjoy a meal there chickens, hogs, cattle, sugarcane, It is often said that the distinction really like. if you choose. corn, rice, crawfish from the rice between New Orleans style and Highly recommended for such an Every Sunday Floyd also hosts a fields, vegetables, pecans, and sweet Cajun-style cooking is the difference experiment would be a trip to Poche's bar-b-que dinner. Starting around potatoes. Add to this list of foodstuffs between city and country. One has Meat Market at Poche's Bridge. If 9:30 and going all day, he cooks whatever game country people might sauces, the other makes gravies. One you were to be driving along Highway chicken, beef, and pork on the grill. hunt and trap and you can make a uses herbs as seasonings, the other 31 from New Iberia through St. Mar You can get a plate with his special complete Cajun menu. All you would does not. (Check next month's chomp tinville to Breaux Bridge, you would bbq sauce, rice dressing, and potato lack is a beverage. report for "hot and spicy" details.) simply continue a few more miles salad for $4. Crabs are boiled during A popular joke still making the Each has ingredients the other has not north. Or, putting it another way, you the season and served for $8 per doz rounds will ask you, "What is a got. Each shares words that have dif could start at Mulate's, come back en, and etouffees are available on seven-course Cajun meal?" The an ferent meanings. towards New Orleans a hundred yards occasion. swer is , "A six-pack and some "Grillades," in New Orleans, are or so to the corner, and then take a Poche's is on the cusp between the boudin." What really makes it funny pounded rounds of beef or veal stewed left. Go until you get there.: You will coastal/seafood country and the is that it contains more than a few in a reddish sauce and served over find Poche's on the ban~-s of the prairie/farming country; you can en grains of truth. Boudin is a soft saus grits. To a country Cajun, the term Bayou Teche. joy the best of both worlds. And, as age of cooked pork,.pork liver, onions means the heart, liver, spleen, and Everything there will taste good. everywhere in Cajun country, the and other seasonings and rice stuffed small intestines of a hog cooked in a The boudin is as good as I have ever hospitality is genuine, abundant, and in casings. It is made throughout the black iron pot and served with its had. The andouille is bigger around free. Cajun farm country, and it is very gravy over rice. (It is said to be very than most you may have ever seen; the (P.S. Poche's will deliver via UPS. popular. Beer is also very popular, but tasty.) meat is coarsely chopped like it is Phone 318-332-2108, or write c/o it is not now made commercially in In New Orleans, "La Boucherie" supposed to be, and the srnokiness is Route2, Box415, Breaux Bridge, LA Acadiana. It must be imported from is the name of a barroom in the French most agreeable. The tasso is lean. The 70517.) • Tuesday Wednesday Sept 15*8pm Sept16•8 LSU Mississippi Assembly Coast Center Coliseum Baton Rouge Biloxi Mississippi Box Office Charge By Phone Box Office Charge By Phone (504) 336-5000 (601) 388-8222 Louisiana (800) 228-3944 Miss. (800) 535-Sl51 Zouk - At Last After reaching Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean, Zouk music can be heard here. GENE SCARANlUZZO st year at thls ti;e- 1 was raving here. Those who are always on the about a music coming out of the alert for new sounds from the African French Antilles islands of diaspora have become instantly LGuadeloupe and Martinique called hooked on zouk, but the discovery has zouk which was sweeping across the turned out to be a mixed blessing. On labels to begin carrying a few discs by date that this record was originally francophone world. Since then, zouk the one hand, zouk provides a new Kassav', the undisputed ruling family released (as George Decimus avec has infiltrated the musics of Africa, thrill full of the best possible blend of of zouk. Celluloid Records, which Kassav' et Cie) . Nonetheless, this Europe and the Caribbean. Records African, Caribbean and European in are available in many New Orleans record is one of the best that has ever coming out of Haiti, the Dominican fluences, with a joyful lightness that record shops, has re-issued two early been produced by the Kassav' musical Republic, Guyana, Montserrat, Ivory can only come from economically Kassav' discs that would provide an family, featuring very strong Antilles Coast, Cameroon, Zaire, Congo advantaged Caribbean islands like the excellent introduction to the group. roots drums (called gwo ka in Guade Brazzaville, Burkina-Faso and else French Antilles. These Celluloid re-issues are being loupe), funky bass and technological where are employing zouk musicians, The other hand is the frustration distributed by Rounder Records also, wizardry courtesy of Jacob De covering zouk hits, directly imitating that arises from not being able to buy increasing the likelihood that Kassav' svarieux. the sound, or at least borrowing or hear zouk records. Until recently, records will start to pop up in New The other Celluloid Kassav' re touches of the zouk magic. In Europe, the curious and the addicted had to Orleans record store bins. issue, Kassov No. 5 (CEL6130), is· · this past summer saw England and rely on mail order or trips to West I highly recommend that anyone from the same time period, featuring France zouking away with Antilles Indian sections of major U.S. cities wondering what all the fuss is about basically the same lineup of musi groups at numerous concerts, many of like Miami, New York and Washing over zouk music take this opportunity cians. It contains two excellent cuts; which were broadcast live on radio ton , D.C. But there are signs of the to pick up the Celluloid re-issue of "Sa Pa Ka Gade Mwen" and "Anki and TV. very beginning of a change that Kassav' with Georges Decimus Nou," but falls short ·as the perfect Amazingly, one year later, this should eventually bring zouk records (CEL6131). This record does not introduction to Kassav' (and zouk in sound has still not reached American and bands to our shores. represent the 1987 Kassav' sound be general) because of the lp's uneven ears, due mainly to the fact that zouk Increasing demand for this music cause some of the personnel has ness. Those who are already beyond records are nearly impossible to find has prompted several domestic record changed since 1982, the approximate introductions will probably want to LEE GARRETT ~'I fj(f)(!)fl)fJ)fj {!)(]}~(j(}jj(}'fl&f!) More Than OTARI RECORDERS Just Gumbo: Voyetra 64 Track MIDI Sequencer Yamaha, Ensoniq, Roland Synthesizers Traditional & Con- Acoustic Drums - Baby Grand temporary Cuisine, Unn Drum & RX-5 Drum Machines Yamaha Rev-7 Reverb . including jambalaya, Neumann Mikes Blackened Redfish, Publishing. Copyright. Management. Demos. Albums. 45s. etc. Fettucine with Crawfish, Shrimp Remoulade, Lunch 8 HOURS RECORDING TIME Specials, and our famous Gumbo. 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Carrollton & Maple Celluloid is contemplating re-issuing involvement this time Moussake by Lucien Robert, which more discs from the early Kassav' features songs co-written by Pier' catalog, making it more likely that will assure a first-class Rosier and musical duties performed other zouk artists will follow shortly tour by this first-class by Gazoline. With a lineup like this, afterward. But even bigger news is Robert can do no wrong, although the $.~ily2-8 that Island Records has just finalized a band. album does tend to lean a bit heavily contract with Kassav' that is likely to towards the French disco sound. $1 12oz result in the group's first American Highlights from this disc include the draft Michelob tour. The band has never really de title track and "Anais." in Frozen Mugs buted in the U.S. They performed Unfortunately, the above men $1 .50 Hi Balls several relatively unannounced gigs Other hot zouk news centers on tioned discs are available only in Brooklyn last year for the annual two recent releases by Kassav's through mail order. As mentioned Caribbean Carnival, but their real de strongest competition, Pier' Rosier many times, the best selection and but, complete with heavy advertising, and Gazoline. Martiniquan Rosier's most reliable source for zouk present at New York's Roseland Ballroom songwriting skills have proven to be a ly is the Original Music catalog. In Sunday last November, fell through ignomi perfect match for the highly advanced fact, they've expanded zouk coverage niously. This fiasco, of which the technical creativity of the Guadelou to include a number of very recent All Day/All Night band was apparently unaware, left a pian group, Gazoline. Gazoline is releases like the newest from Mala $1 12oz draft Michelob bad taste in many mouths, especially heavy on gwo ka, bass and syn voi , Jocelyne Beroard and Dede St. $1 .50 Bloody Marys those of the three different promoters thesizer, with a polished studio sound Prix. Original's catalog is available Music by John Rankin who had shelled out an estimated equalled only by Kassav'. Their latest by writing R.D. I, Box 190, Lasher on alternate Sundays $45,000 in advance money for the release, untitled (Moradisc MGP Rd., Tivoly, NY 12583. shows. The band's reputation has suf 4021 ), while not breaking any new In addition, free weekly doses of fered before this on account of un ground, follows hot on the style of zouk can be heard on the New Orleans official, unauthorized " representa their previous two albums ... rio small airwaves on WWOZ 90.7 FM. The tives" of the band booking gigs and feat considering how great those Caribbean Show (Tues., II :30 a.m. Wednes~ay• even tours. Island Records' involve were. Cuts from their second album, til I p .m. and Sat.. 8:30 til 10 p.m.) 9pm 'til midnight ment will assure a first class tour by especially "Makina," "Bail Gas'" gives heaviest emphasis to the latest in this first class band. One can only and '· Aie Doudou,' ' were solid on the zouk, but it can also be heard on The hope that Island will find someone to Antilles hit parade through the sum African Journey (Wed, 10 p.m. til .£~Nile push Kassav' in the U.S. as effective mer and winter of 1986. "Console midnight) and the Sunday Kitchen ly as Ro_ger Steffens oromoted Island- Mwen" and "Obsession" are likely Sink (10 p.m. til midnight). • • Join the Mc1v8m'ent. i • ' \ " • • I ·DIXIE. BEER 2401 1Uiane Ave. • New Orleans, LA 70119 • 822-8711 after this the two guitarists with the group left and the singers decided to continue unaccompanied. The group made a shakey start, however, in the a capella style. Larry Bell remembers it The New Orleans tradition this way: "A lot of times folks would let us of a capella music continues with sing at church musicals, but it was just Singers. because we happened to be there, and the First Revolution not really because they liked what we were doing. I can understand that BY ANDY RIDLEY though, because at that time we really couldn't sing anyway! This newspaper advertisement for an a capella vocal group appeared thods of artistic expression Happy. Little Mack and Red Happy " I saw the need for more training have a way of reappearing, in later became drummers, and like so we began rehearsing three or four in the Republican Courier, a black evised form, over the years. Armstrong moved into other musical nights a week. Then, in 1976, we de New Orleans newspaper, in De MBenjamin Britten's vocal settings, for styles. A capella music continued in cided to come into the French Quarter cember 1899. example, owe much to the the city, though, and today it i~ possi and sing on the streets, and see what seventeenth-century composer Henry ble to hear at least one unaccompanied the people there thought about it. [Aaron Neville] youth center on Purcell; William Morris used forms group singing on New Orleans streets. " I remember at that time we had Lyons and Laurel streets,'' continues from the Middle Ages and Pablo The First Revolution Singers did Harold Miller, Elvin Dabney and my Bell. "Most of the performers were Picasso found inspiration in earlier not intentionally set out to preserve self. Elvin is the nephew of Ernie K from uptown, like us. After we got mOdes, such as primitive sculpture. this style, but as things worked out Doe and a fine natural tenor. It was through, Duke-a-Padukah and BB of Perhaps one of the oldest forms of they have done just that. By a method just the three of us and none of us had WWOZ invited us to sing on their musical expression is the unaccom of trial and error they have achieved a a steady job. Harold had an old beat radio show. We found that listeners panied human voice. Over the years it blend of harmony, unison and rhythm up pickup truck and we would go liked what we were trying to do and has passed back and forth between the within the a capella tradition. around and pick up trash. We used the we started to think that if we could folk tradition, religious performance The First Revolution was formed in money we made to buy tuxedos and only get it together this thing could and the concert stage. Like many 1972 when Larry Bell and Harold we thought we were really ready to go really work!" other places, New Orleans has en Miller, both fresh out of the Army, places!'' As Bell's interest in the style grew joyed an a capella tradition, both began rehearsing with a few friends Unfortunately, this optimistic per he listened more and more to record secular and sacred. We know that a from the Thirteenth Ward, in the up iod proved short lived. The group suf ings by such members of the gospel capella groups sang on New Orleans town section of the city. They started fered personnel changes, the mem pantheon as the Pilgrim Travellers. streets early this century and that one working with rhythm and blues mate bers started going their different ways He s tudied not in order to plagiarize such group included a young Louis rial, but becoming dissatisfied with and finally they split up. It wasn't other groups or to become as Lester Armstrong singing tenor. 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Esplanade Ave. Metairie, LA 70006 able to pay for their first recording. ''I've Been Changed." and .. The Lord Will Make A Way." During the 1984 World's Fair, held The New in New Orleans. they performed a six week engagement at the Storyville Jazz Hall. They performed a number ffshore of times that year on television and Lounge made numerous radio broadcasts. The group's current line-up is Jim my Reilly, first tenor and musical di rector; Cornel Coulon, second tenor; Lynwood Bell , baritone, second tenor and lead; Larry Bell , baritone, bass OPEN and lead; Harold Miller, second bari Mondar.-Friday tone and lead; and Earl Manning, 11am til 8pm bass. baritone and lead. Their music, which is frequently heard in neighborhood churches as well as on the streets. is an interesting mix of traditional gospel songs in terspersed with group originals. Listening to them soar emotionally on ''I-'m Gonna Fly Away," or "Heaven Is My Goal,'' one is reminded of the Live Entertainment* words of gospel composer Thomas Dorsey, who said, ''When a person is TUESDAY The First Revolution Singers: Achieving a blend of harmony, filled with troubles this music makes Spm 't119pm unison and rhythm in a capella, a tradition that dates to the his worries fly away." There is a beginning of this century, and includes a young Louis strong shout of joy in these unaccorn panied voices, a direct emotional ex Armstrong, who sang in an a capella group. uberance which swings with the pulse 1120 TULANE of one of the great mid-western terri (Saratoga and Oil & Gas) tory bands. "We're hoping to keep New Orleans, LA • resulting broadening ot the group's "What Jimmy did was to take all this a capella style alive a few more 70112 (504) 522-0304 sound was further increased when the raw talent and bring it out," says years," concludes Larry Bell, "be Jimmy Reilly brought his talents to ·Bell. cause in a traditional town like New the group as musical director and first They returned to the French Quar Orleans this style should never tenor. ter and from the tips they earned were die." • ler's The is all James Rivers jazzed up!! 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During (comer of l:>ecotur and Barracks) his recent stop in New Orleans with co-conspirator and washboard man Skid Roper for their August perform ance at Tipitina's, Mojo was over heard mumbling, screaming, hooting and hollering his unique brand of ~ !Yl@l !ill fPJ.® ITU W ®U® ~ ~ ITU ® ~W homespun philosophy at virtually anyone who happened to be within earshot of his somewhat hoarsened [}=f]®®~~U®O but still room-filling voice. In an in terview heard on radio station WTUL, Dogs • Cats • B-irds • Exotics and as well as throughout Tipitina's before the show, Mojo proferred his strong and often controversial op peace and harmony towards Elvis Newly Renovated inions on a wide variety of topics, ness. Soon, soon all will become one Facilities including videos, talk shows, the with Elvis ... Why do you think they lncretL~ed Boarding FCC, Nancy Reagan, tallywhackers, call it 'evolution,' anyway? It's really Capacity and, of course, the King himself. 'Eivislution' ... " Mojo Nixon on Elvis: "Elvis is Mojo on the New Album Bo Day everywhere, man. He's in Every Shus!!!: It's a rockin', screamin' body, everything. He's in your sweatin' droolin', booger-flyin' 731 Nashville at Magazine 891-0685 cheeseburgers ... He's in Nutty Bud- thang, it is ... Hopefully when you dys ... Elvis is in your listen to it, boogers will shoot right Mom ... Everybody except one per- out yer nose ... can we say 'boogers' son, the evil opposite of Elvis . .. The on the radio? Mr. FCC, I hope you get Anti-Eivis ... Michael J. Fox has no so many boogers in your nose when Elvis in him ... Elvis is in Joan Riv- you hear my record on the radio, you ers, but he's tryin' to get out, can never breathe again." man ... " Mojo on Elvis once again: "The Mojo on videos: " We made a Big E is inside of you and me." video for our new song, 'Elvis is Everywhere,' right before we left on Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper this tour. We shot it at a go-cart track. 80 DAY SHUS!!! The best part about it was that we Enigma Records, El Segundo, CA 90245 There seems to be a sort of cosmic connec rented the go-cart track for three tion between Mojo Nixon and Elvis P.resley. It is hours, but it only took two to shoot the no accident that the latest offering from Mojo video, so the last hour we just had a and Skid was released, as Mojo puts it, "almost big race. It was like Darlington or ten years to the date of Elvis' Ascension." It is no something. l was Wendell Scott. Me coincidence that the album's lead track and cen terpiece is a tune entitled "Elvis is Everywhere." and Skid dressed as Elvis in the video. Chock full of the insane ranting and manic two We rented these really hideous big fat chord guitar/washboard raveups that have made Vegas Elvis suits and roared around Mojo and Skid into popular cult heroes, 80 DAY the track in them ... '' SHUS!!! and "Elvis is Everywhere" in particular live up to if not surpass the legacy of such Mojo Mojo on Elvis Again: "Me and classics as "Mushroom Maniac," "Burn Down Lee Ving (of the band Fear) were both the Malls," and "Jesus at McDonald's." Those incarnations of Elvis also. Me, I was who thought Mojo was a one-hit novelty act Louisiana Hayride Elvis. Lee was must now stand silent; Mojo is still as funny as ever, taking on Nancy Reagan, barbeques, man ugly. He couldn't help it. He was the ual labor, Foo-Foo haircuts, and even the King Vegas Presley. The ugly Elvis. The himself as song topics. Mojo and Skid stand on picture of Elvis you put on your re the brink of becoming popular legends or folk frigerator to remind you what happens heroes; a hundred years from now they could very well become folklore like Johnny Appleseed if you open it too much ... That's or Paul Bunyan. While it's true that Mojo may right, too many cross country flights have made some concessions in his style in Wednesday for Twinkies ... and then you get that order to appeal to a broader audience not all of Dunlop tire on your belt, like your the changes are necessarily bad ones. Gone are September 30 stomach most of the four letter words and the frequent, done lopped over, you almost habitual reference to his "tallywhacker" know .. ~" · and such, replaced by less specific, more gener TAKE A LESSON ON THE 3R'S: Mojo on Elvis and Extra alized statements (like "lets get rid of the rules," Rockab/lly/Rhythm & Blues/Rock 'n Roll terrestrials: "People from outer for instance). These changes are good for Mojo; they broaden his appeal without sacrificing his space, they come up to me; they don't ideals. Old fans need not fear - he's still as look like Dr. Spock, they don't look loony as ever. Still, one must admit it's a little like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive; strange to hear Mojo say "Frigging ," when you they look like Elvis . .. because, you know what he meant to say. 80 DAY SHUS!!! is see s, E I v i s i the perfect be exactly what the title says it is; it's a full-tilt, four alarm drop dead gin-guzzling frenzy like only ing ... we're all moving to perfect Mojo and Skid know how to throw. 14 Wavelength • SEPIEMIIER RECORDS Atypical Fess Professor Longhair Everybody's Blowing Rip Records 154-574 BY ALNlOST SLINl p Records was owned and op erated by the Creole entrepre neur, Rip Roberts. The label Roperated during the early I 960s and was responsible for over a dozen sing les. With a roster that also boasted Bobby Mitchell, Eddie Bo and Reggie Hall, as you'd expect most of his re cordings were great examples of New Orleans R&B. Rip had a rather con NEW ORLEANS ACADEMY 0~ ~ fusing numerical system - there were three singles issued as I 54 - FINE ARTS ~ ·_ tn causing many sleepless nights for dis 5256 Magazine Street cographers. Rip's top seller was of ~ course Reggie Hall's "The Joke," REGISTER NOW! ·o which was leased by the powerful Fall Session Beginning Sept. 1 4 • ffi times are quire abrasive but overall Chess signature. lz " Everybody's Blowing" is fairly it's a pretty decent record. Longhair , Life Painting Sculpture typical Longhair - if such an animal cut one other record for Rip " Some Portrait Color Therapy ~ : actually exists-complete with non thing On Your Mind"/" Everybody's Landscape Beginning Painting o : s and some rhumba Twisting" which as you'd expect is sensical lyric Beginning Drawing Design &. Painting ;o at also quite good. • r- flavored backbeats. The horns Life Drawing Drawings in Color Watercolor Calligraphy ~ 2 (/) Call 899-81 ll for brochure. able rhythms and their ability to rock Cajun mus Arthur Alexander ic. The strong beat present throughout the SOLDIER OF LOVE album makes it a great introduction to Cajun Ace 209 music for nov1ces, anO it IS a good dance album Discount While th1s LP doesn't nearly measure up to for house parties. The sound is smooth and well Camera Alexander's stunning debut on Ace , A Shot of mixed, and there are none of the high register Rhythm and Soul, it's still a welcomed follow vocals or "chanky-chank" that bothers some 10% Prices up. people. Alexander, of course, is best known for the Serious Cajun music fans should take note hits " A Shot of Rhythm and Blues," " Anna" and also . " Allons Rock & Roll," " The Catawomp " You Better Move On ," all collected on the pre Stomp ," " Pont de Vue" and "Allons Aller Chez 1-Hour viously mentioned LP. Instead this volume col Fred " are all recorded on this album , and they Color Print lects " the hits that missed ," and an assortment are probably not in your collection yet. " Allons 10% of unreleased tracks. Rock & Roll'' was the flip side to Lawrence Processing Perhaps the best exponent of country/soul Walker's greatest hit, "Tit Yeaux Noir" and is (there's plenty of that here), Alexander's plain still available on his La Louisianne re1ssue LP, DISCOUNT tive voice is perfectly suited to ballads like "After but I've never heard the others on record before. Same Day You ," "Call Me Lonesome" and especially "Allons Allons Chez Fred" is a signature File To Students "Love Me Warm and Tender." Although slow tune , and it's a great song to sing between E-6 tunes predominate, Alexander can still raise Lafayette and Mamou at 8:30 on a Saturday some sand as " Keep Her Guessing" and " Whole morning. on Slides Lot of Trouble" display. This is a reqUired album for all New Orleans My only real complaint concerning this album fans. Buy one copy for yourself and send one to is the abundance of covers found here - I those out-of-town friends who don't know what Darkroom counted at least four. Although he delivers per they're missing on Thursday nights. Next Day haps the definitive version of " Detroit City," I -David "Steelhead" Clalt B&W still get the feeling Ace had to really do some Supplies digging to get this one together. Contact Sheets -Almost Slim Boozoo Chavis "LOUISIANA WOMEN LOVE UNCLE BUD"/ Located on Maple St. near " DEACON JONES" Tulane & Loyola Universities Film Prices File Komaday 304 Cajun Dance Band This single gets my nod as being one of the already discounted Flying Fish Records, Inc. , 1304 W Schubert, best zydeco efforts in some time. 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A wide variety of sizes make them an easy addition to any cars' high fidelity system. Professional Car Stereo Installations at Freret. Metairie: 3213 17th Street- 834-m2 • Uptown: 7323 Freret- 866-3579 .. . joined the group. We started playing all these big school dances - Xavier Prep, Cypress Grove in Lutcher, Cohn in New Orleans, the Pimlico Club on Broad Street. "We used to do things similar to what I did with Bo, but we had a powerful backup - like 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy,' 'Mary Joe,' 'Daddy Loves Baby,' 'Dream Girl,' 'Cherry Pie,' things by Shirley and Lee." The Flamingoes also had two of the most talented Ray Charles disciples imaginable in one group. Eag lin explains, ''At that time Ray Charles was hittin'. [Allen] was heavy into that. He wasn't too heavy into the other stuff, but he was right on Ray." In 1986 Art Neville described to Ray Topping the battle of the bands in the Fifties: "Eventually there were two young groups in New Orleans that were real popular, the Hawketts and Allen Toussaint's group the Flamingoes. Between us we had the city sewn up." What Art didn't mention was that the real star of the Flamingoes was the vocalist and guitarist, Finally! Black Top Snooks Eaglin, a fact that, according to Eaglin, chafed Toussaint. Records bring~ ''Allen, after he progressed, decided to leave and go for something bigger," recalls Snooks. "He was crying about 'cause I was making more money, why Eaglin fans a didn't he get nothin'? He did a thing with Billy Tate on Peacock for Don Robey. They wanted to record new LP. me, but the money wasn't satisfying. He did a thing for RCA called 'Happy Times.' He did that album right after he broke from us.'' At about the same time Eaglin began a curious By Rick Coleman side career as a "folk" bluesman when he was discovered by LSU professor and folklorist Harry Oster in 1958. nooks Eaglin is the high-flying New Orleans then, I guess because he was more ambitious than he "We were in Donaldsonville at Champ's Hon master of the blues guitar. Throughout his long is now. He takes it kind of easy now. He was some eydripper," says Snooks, 'Til never forget that. It 5career people have always tried to put him into thing, man. He always sounded like two or three was New Year's Day and he came by the hotel and one bag or another. But with his burning new album guitar players playin' at one time." made a tape. He came by my house the week after, Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! on Black Top, Eaglin recorded a gospel record with "Doc" Au and we did the album from that. " Snooks is out to show that the boy who started out on gustine around 1952 as "Blind Guitar Ferd" on "I did some current things, you know, com Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody" and has played which he backed four female vocalists almost in mercial things, but he wanted me to get some stuff nearly every type of music since, has got more than a audibly in the background. Eaglin recalls "Cosimo from old records. I went home and du~ uo all the old few notes up his sleeve. At age 51 Snooks has his had to holler at Doc to keep the wine bottle down!" 78s and started working- 'Rock Island Line' by first properly recorded record, and he's going for In the early Fifties Snooks joined Eddie Bo's Leadbelly and all that stuff." broke. group with Wilbert ("Lee Diamond") Smith on Snooks recalls that Oster woke him up at five a.m. Fird Eaglin, Jr., was born on January 21 , 1936, in tenor, his brother Joe Fox on drums, and Bill Senigal (after he had just gotten home from a gig) to do the New Orleans. At nineteen months he was left sight on bass playing at a club on the corner of Amelia and session in his living room. Even half-asleep and with less after an operation to remove a brain tumor. His Tchoupitoulas. After a gig promoted by WBOK OJ a hangover, Snooks performed a legendary version handicap didn't keep little Fird from getting into Okey Dokey in Slidell with Ray Charles O..key of •• High Society'' in which he played all the parts of trouble, though. He told English writer Max Jones Dokey brought Leonard Chess to Eaglin's house. a brass band on his guitar. he was named after Baby Snooks the radio character, Chess had Snooks sit in with Sugarboy Crawford's Convinced he had a find, Oster followed with because he was a "bad boy [who] used to swing on group in 1954, replacing Irving Bannister on the sessions throughout 1958 and 1959. New Orleans the kitchen cabinet.'' Mardi Gras anthem "Jock-a-Mo." Street Singer, the first of several albums, was re Beginning at age five Snooks began trying to "We went in there ten o'clock that morning," leased in May 1958 on Folkways. imitate the sounds he heard by plucking strings-on says Eaglin, "and we didn't come out till seven that Of course, Snooks was not a street singer and the a dimestore ukelele, on a banjo, and, finally, on an night. We didn't do no session all day. We just entire folk concept was a sham. The album included acoustic guitar with an electrical pick-up that his fooled around talkin' and sat around and ate. two songs each recorded by Fats Domino, Amos father bought him. He listened to big bands on the "It sounds good, hutto me it wasn't together. The Milburn, and Lil Green, along with hits by Lowell radio and to blues 78s. "Lonnie Johnson was my tempo was dropped on 'Ifl Loved You Darling' and Fulson and Charles Brown. Though Snooks gained favorite guitar player," recalls Snooks, "him and I broke a string right in the middle of the set. You can widespread fame as a folk blues artist, he never Lil Green." tell it's missing on 'You Call Everybody benefited from it, apart from $150 he got for the In 1949 Snooks' musical rambunctiousness paid Sweetheart.' It was a country and western tune. But album. off when he won $200 playing ''Twelfth Street at that time they wouldn't acept blacks as country Shortly after a June I, 1959 session with Oster Rag" on O.C.W. Taylor's "Negro Talent Hour" and western artists, so I had to change it around." (which included a pre-Ray Charles version of broadcast from Hayes' Chicken Shack on WNOE. Eaglin sang "You Call Everybody Sweetheart" "Georgia on My Mind") Tulane Jazz Archive cura Earl King, no mean blues guitarist himself, and "If I Loved You Darling," which were tor Rkhard B. Allen noted that the Flamingos (with remembers Eaglin as an impressive prodigy. apparently also recorded for Wonder earlier. One t)le Langs, Morton, "Sticks" Cornelius on drums, "I knew Snooks when he was about 16. You used person who liked the latter song was Dave Barth ·and Ralph Johnson on tenor) auditioned for a dis to have to go to his house to get him to play and get olomew, who re-titled it for his biggest hit "Would interested Oster. Soon thereafter Snooks refused to his daddy's approval. But Snooks is one of the guys You'' in 1957, and had Snooks re-record it in 1961. sign a contract to make Oster exclusive agent for that I used to try to get to teach me guitar. And he Prior to the session Eaglin had joined another Snooks' recordings, a move which apparently ended used to tease me- 'Earl, you don't need to play no teenage group called the Flamingoes with Allen their relationship. guitar. You just sing. I'm gonna be your guitar Toussaint (piano), Benjamin Gregory (tenor), Alex Possum Up a Simmon Tree (including the Haw player.' ander Dunbar (alto), Walter Lang (trumpet), Ferdi ketts' "Mardi Gras Mambo") on Oster's own Folk "Snooks used to be around with Huey [Smith] and nand Bijou (trombone), Frank Morton (tenor, clar Lyric label came out soon after Snooks' fa~Cff died Victor Augustine. As a matter of fact I think that's inet), Alvin Lang (trombone), and James Jackson in January 1960. The death ofFird, Sr., the Flaming how they did 'Would You; 'cause [Augustine] (drums). os' manager and Snooks' guiding light, caused a rift wrote that song. "It was a powerful band when I got in it," says within the group that culminated its break up. "Too • 'Snooks was a fantastic guitarist from comin' up. Eaglin. "Before I sat in with them, they weren't too many people running one damn group," says As a matter of fact, I think Snooks was playin' more up to par. They didn't have that much work till I · Eaglin...... , ...... 23 While the group was falling apart, "Fat Man" Quint Davis, who had gotten Snooks and Fess Unfortunately, the album saw only limited re Matthews of the Hawks brought Dave Bartholomew together, recorded Eaglin a month after the Festival lease, though the next session that Snooks did would by Snooks' house. On April 25, 1960, Snooks re for Sam Charter's Swedish Sonet label. The session not even be released until 1987. Sessions that corded three Smiley Lewis songs and Pee Wee produced the magnificent Legacy ofthe Blues album Snooks recorded with Fess in Baton Rouge and New Crayton's "Yours Truly," with the guitar-bass in which, for the first time in his career, Snooks York were a funk summit betwe((n the New Orleans drums combo of' 'Ernest McLean, Frank Fields, and recorded what he wanted. Allison Kaslow, who was masters of the guitar and the piano. The summit was June Gardner. A simple sentimental song, "Yours present at the session, recalled on a WWOZ radio complete in a session in Memphis featuring the Truly" showed off Eaglin's fiery guitar licks, and program, ''[Snooks] had total control over the mate powerhouse drumming of Zigaboo Modeliste. I became a regio11al hit. rial, and [he] went home and planned it and did it all Snooks and Zig seem to be the driving force in a "We had a big show," remembers Snooks," the way straight through. I don't even think [Chart session that brought Longhair back to his peak, as is Sam Cooke, Dakota Staton, Ernie K-Doe, Chuck ers] changed the order of the songs." . evident in a still-unreleased killer version of "Big Carbo & the Spiders, Gerri Hall. It was a good show Snooks' freedom was the result of having to do the Chief'' and in the explosive "G Jam." all the way. We went to different parts of the country session almost overnight without hiring any other While in Woodstock, New York, an incident that - Texas, Mobile, Pensacola, Miami Beach, musicians, rather than foresight on Charters' part. added to Snooks' legend occurred when he couldn't Florida." As Snooks remembers, the session was almost a sleep because he heard snow falling! Snooks elabo Eaglin was also heavily booked locally at Lincoln disaster. "Everything burned out that night! The rates, "I Said, 'How can ya'll sleep through this Beach, the Autocrat Club, the 5-4 Club, and at the amplifier went dead. The board went dead on the junk!' All night- 'Tat! Ta-ta! Tat! Tat!' They had Sands, usually as "Lil Ray Charles." man's machine. I said, 'Man, we got trouble here one of them tin roofs in the house where we was The comparison to Charles is certainly un tonight!' Quint rented an amplifier which wouldn't staying. And that snow was payin' off, boy! I woke derstandable when listening to Snooks' powerful do nothin', bro! So what he had to do was plug me in 'em up. I had 'em up eatin'!'' recordings of "By the Water" and "See See Rid After contributing a flaming wah-wah guitar to the er." Eaglin recorded a handful of sessions with Wild Magnolias' album in 1973, Snooks made a trip Bartholomew from February I 961 to April 1963, The year 1971 and the to London with Professor Longhair, Willie Tee, the first with Justin Adams, Robert French, Frank Wild Magnolias, and the Olympia Brass Band but Fields, and Warren Myles, and later in Jess spon first Jazz Festival brought was not recorded again until 1977 when Sam Chart taneously bluesy recordings with Wardell Quezer ers returned to New Orleans. This time Charters was que' s Royal Dukes of Rhythm orchestra. Eaglin's guitar and determined to record Snooks as he conceived him, as When Imperial was sold in late 1963 Snooks was a strictly R&B performer. Unfortunately, to re in the midst of three-year gig at the Playboy Club, Professor Longhair's create the New Orleans R&B of the Fifties·, which sometimes playing with the club's musical director piano wailing full-blast was built upon session musicians who played AI Belletto. Snooks had made another jazz connec together for years, Charters spent two days. Snooks tion earlier when he filled in Roy Montrell on a into the modern age. sums up the consensus on the result: "I liked the record by Willie Tee with the AFO Combo. album- doin' it- but the playback, oh, lawd! It Things slowed down for Snooks in the mid wasn't mixed properly. They didn't separate the Sixties, though he recorded on unissued Eddie Bo through the board, and we had to finish it up from hom from the drums, and it sounds like everything and Oliver Morgan sessions for Doc Augustine's there." was cut in mono." Fun label. Eddie Bo produced Snooks' 1965 record The album opens with the fierce metallic chords of Throughout the Seventies and the Eighties Snooks on Fun with the hilarious "Cheetah" (pre-dating John Lee Hooker's "Boogie Chillen" and Snooks played the Jazz Festival to huge enraptured au Ray Stevens with the line "swingin' through the relating Hook's tale of momma and papa okaying the diences, yet he seldom got large crowds when he trees in his B. V .D.s") and "Sweetness" with a kid's new boogie craze, circa 1940. Then suddenly played at clubs like Snug Harbor or Tipitina's. pumping horn arrangement. Eaglin even got Snooks announces, "This is the modem age! This Snooks often had to play solo gigs on beat-up together with old rival Art NeviJJe to recreate the ain't the old time age!" and goes into the story of guitars. Nonetheless, his concerts are always some Hawketts for a time before Neville hooked up with how funk was born. He does equally magnum funk thing special. Billy Delle, who has had Snooks per another former Flamingo, Allen Toussaint, to rede versions of AI Page's ''Drive It Home,'' ''Lucille,'' form live on his Tuesday night WWOZ radio show fine funk, with the Meters. "Good News," and his showstopper "Funky Male several times, remembers nights at Martine's in In 1969 Eaglin and his wife Doretha moved to the guena." The album also gives Snooks' romantic which Snooks played every request the small au town of St. Rose outside of New Orleans. The streak full bloom, with impossibly gorgeous ver diences could think of, from Lightnin' Hopkins to following year he appeared at the Jazz Festival doing sions of Junior Parker's "Who's Loving You "Western Movies" by the Olympics. "After he blues with Percy Randolph, with whom he had re Tonight," Louis Armstrong's "I Get the Blues would get off of the guitar, he's go bang on the corded for Harry Oster in 1959. When It Rains," and Ben E. King's "Young Boy electric piano, and play Ray Charles off of that, then Blues.'' come back to an acoustic set.'' Charters, who had also released Snooks' first On July 19, 1986, a WWOZ benefit with several "This is the Modem Age!" album on his Folkways label in 1958, obviously acts at Tipitina's reunited Snooks with Allen Tous The year 1971 marktd the return to two New wasn't pleased with the result, as he wrote in the saint. "Toussaint loved it," recalls Delle. "Tous Orleans legends from obscurity wailing full-blast liner notes, "In his own way Snooks has all the saint smiled througb the whole thing and he was into the modem world. The clarion was sounded at tough independence of the most aggressive rock enjoying Snooks. He really just sat there and played the Jazz Festival at Beauregard Square where the performer, for insisting on doing what he wants, the along and showcased Snooks. I had to go up there combination of Eaglin's guitar and Professor Long way he wants to do it, despite the people around him and get§nooks off the stage. Snooks said, he didn't hair's piano literally stopped the show. who !'Ould like to see him doing something else." care, he would have stayed there all night!" • RESTAURANT Specializing in Italian Cuisine SEAFOOD • HOMEMADE PIZZA A very quaint restaurant only at ... catering to those who enjoy fine food. Mike Tessitore e~aM;cd/~ Brenda Watson Mon-Sat 3524 16th St .. Suite F Dinner Only Metairie. lA 887-5548 488-8452 J2 ~tl S. C.umllton An'...... MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ...... - Special thanks to Alan Warner, A sound that runs the album is a Snooks Eaglin Discography Walter Brock, Lynn Abbott, and Billy Baby, You Can Get Your Gun! slight jazz flavor, on the blues ballads SINGLES Black Delle. Top 1034 (especially Percy Mayfield's "Baby Blind Guitar Ferd and the New Orleans Wonders Please") and in the blues shuffles 1952? Jesus Will Fix It for You!fraveling On Wonder 7606 Hammond Scott says the idea to Guitar Slim's ''You Give Me Nothing record Snooks probably germinated in But the Blues" and the title song by Ford Eaglin his mind the first time he saw him - Slim's protege Earl King. Scott ex 1960 Yours Truly/Nobody Knows Imperial 5671 at the 1970 Jazz Festival with Pro plains, "That's part of what makes That Certain Door/By the Water Imperial 5692 fessor Longhair, but didn't really Snooks unique. He gets that really 1961 If I Could/Guess Who Imperial 5736 come together until after his sessions dirty sound, yet he also gets that Travelin' Mood1 Wonder (My Head Is Spinnin') Imperial 5765 with Earl King last year. acoustic guitar sound with a bluesy Going to the River/l'm Slippin' In . Imperial 5802 Scott based his personnel on the tone. But the chords he uses, the voic 1962 Don't Slam That Door/Nothing Sweet As You Imperial 5823 drums-bass-sax-keyboards line-up of ings, are very sophisticated." I've Been Walkin'/Would You Imperial 5857 Sam Charter's last Sonet album. Erv Fans of Snooks' rocking R&B will People Are Talking/Reality Imperial 5866 ing Charles (bass) and Smokey John definitely dig his versions of the Four Long Gone/Willie Lee Imperial 5890 son (drums) had long impressed him 1963 Cover GirVLittle Eva Imperial 5946 Blazers' "Mary Joe," his own - with Frogman Henry and Fats Domi "Sweetness," and Eugene Church's Little Snook no. "Dave Lastie I knew would be a • 'Pretty Girls Everywhere,'' in which 1965 Cheetah/Sweetness Fun 303 good fella to play that bootin' type of he pays homage to Billy Delle at the ALBUMS sax," says Scott. "He's pretty fi beginning with the "Aah-aah!" 1958 New Orleans Street Singer Folkways 2476/ ery." Ron Levy (organ) and Ronnie which Delle uses in his radio show. Storyville 119 Earl (rhythm guitar) "seem to be able The great interplay between 1960 Possum Up a Simmon Tree Folk-Lyric 107/Arhoolie 2014 to fit into any situation ... There's Snooks and the rhythm section is es ? That's All Right Prestige/Bluesville 1046 something a little fresher about thrpw pecially evident on "Profidia." Ron ? Blues from New Orleans Vol. 2 Storyville 140 ing together a group of guys who are Levy and David Lastie contribute a ? Portraits in Blues, Vol. 1 Storyville 146 on the same level playing-wise." fantastic SJllokey blues tone with their ? Snooks Eaglin/Robert Pete Williams Rural Blues Fantasy 24716 The thing that immediately strikes fills and flavorings, without over 1972 Legacy of the Blues, Vol. 2 Sonet ?/Crescendo 10012 the listener when comparing it to other powering Snooks' guitar. David Las- 1979 Down Yonder- Snooks Eaglin Today Sonet 752/Crescendo 10023 Eaglin albums is the sound, which tie, who played with Snooks in the 198? New Orleans 1960-61 Sundown 709-04 even the ultra-discriminating Snooks Cha Paka Shaweez as early as 1952, 1987 Baby, You Can Get Your Gun Black Top 1037 calls "perfect." 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Esplanade Ave., Metairie, LA 70006 • 11-7 Mon-Fri • 10-6 Sat SEPI'IM8ER • w.,•.••... 25 ' Ir' oux' or "Hometown Chanky-chank Goes Vinyl" t gets to be a regular thing. Danc Some critics have complained that ers swirling swiftly and graceful recorded Cajun music can all sound ly across the floor, like figures on the same. Without the fun of dancing Ia carousel, smiling, propelled by a in a live setting, the sameness of the chanky-chank beat. Onstage, Bruce rhythms becomes apparent. So goes Daigrepont and his band are playing their argument. His years of perform Cajun music, just as he did every ing has taught Bruce how to avoid this Thursday night at the Maple Leaf for morass. He varies his rhythms as five and a half years and as they now much as possible, mixing fast and do at Tipitina's on Sunday evenings. slow waltzes with two-steps. reels, Most of the crowd are regulars, and and zydecos. He changes keys. He they are passing a very good time. sets the audience up for his next song Although New Orleans is not itself the way a quarterback sets up a de part of Cajun country, it harbors many fender. Having anchored side two residents with Cajun roots and bor with Richard's "Lonely Night," rows freely the treasures of its neigh Daigrepont is primed for a final bors and ancestors. Bruce himself is sprint. one of those transplanted Cajuns. His "Frisco Zydeco" is a familiar parents raised him in the house near Queen Ida song. Three years ago Canal St. where he and his wife, Sue, Bruce made a demo tape with his live today. But the Daigrepont family former band, Bourn~. He remembers tree grew up in the northernmost tip of how college station KRVS in Lafayet the Acadian triangle, A voyelles Par te jumped on the song and "played the ish. In the central part of the state, just hell out of it.'' He has also found it to below the Red River, this farming be one of his most requested perform country still has parts of it which are has been hearing about it through Rouge" ("Red River Waltz"). ance pieces. . eighty to ninety percent French Bruce's newsletters and seeing copies Ask Bruce which two cuts he would "I've sort of gotten known for it, speaking. Here Bruce's grandparents for sale at his gigs. Early response has put on a single and he winds up tout too, because not that many people have an old-fashioned farm. Bruce been very favorable, suggesting ing each of the ten cuts on the album. play it. Just me and Queen Ida.'· heard a lot of Cajun music. He did Bruce has been successful in achiev He thinks every song is good and, For his version, Bruce uses theCa not, however, learn to play this music ing his goal, which was "to make an after repeated listenings, it would be jun accordion. This instrument does until much later. artistically unique, good record." hard to argue with him. Some may not have the piano keys and three-row Once Bruce had become a fixture The old guard seems to agree. Ti emerge as personal favorites, but buttons of its zydeco cousin. It does on the local music scene, many of his Bruce Broussard has had a Cajun none is a loser. Six of them are his not have quite the same sound, and it fans pressed him to make an album. music show in Port Arthur, Texas, for original compositions. The other four can only play whole notes, not sharps He was serious in his refusal, figuring twenty-five years. He reported being cover versions are each handled in and flats like the zydeco accordion. it was all a matter of time. swamped with requests for "Le Two some unique way, making them like Daigrepont surprised a lot of people "At first, everything had happened Step de Marksville," one of Daigre new. with his ability to achieve that hard too fast," he recalls. "I had only pont's originals, after he first played "Les Traces de Mon Bogue" rocking, blues/zydeco effect with the bought my first accordion in Septem it. ("Buggy Tracks"), for example, is Cajun accordion. Partly it is a trick of ber '79 and by July '80 I already had Back across the border, Carney arranged with vocal harmony and an technique. my own band. I could have made an Doucet, a fellow musician as well as a added dobro to give a fresh sound to "A lot of people play with one fin album right away, just to sell to tour deejay for Abbeville station KROF this vintage tune. ger, and some of your better players ists, with what I call the Cajun top (short for KROFish, I suppose), was Harmony is also used to great effect use two fingers to play octaves. On forty: ''Jambalaya,'' '' Jolie so impressed with the album he took in the only slow number on the album, that song I'm playing with three fing Blonde," "Diggie Diggie Lo," time to write Bruce a note of con a beautiful version of the Belton ers at a time." "Lache Pas Ia Patate," or "Toot gratulations. Just to the north in Ville Richard classic, "Un Autre Soir En The album closes with its title Toot." Things everybody else has Platte, Floyd Soileau, the Sears & nuyant" ("Another Lonely Night"). track, "Stir Up the Roux." It is the already recorded twenty times. I di Roebuck of Cajun music, has started A true tear-jerker in any language, the only song entirely in English, dn't see the point. I wanted to do a leasing arrangements necessary to put song differs from the excellent origin although two others ("Frisco Zyde record that would represent me." out a 45. Reports are that he is leaning al by its smooth blend of voices and co'' and "Les Filles Cadjines") have And now he has. towards another old-timey sounding some modest background piano, play some English verses. It is a rock 'n' Stir Up the Roux by Bruce Daigre original, "Le Valse de Riviere ed caringly by Sue Daigrepont. roll number with lead guitar and sax pont is peing released this month for ophone, what we have come to label nationwide distribution on the Round as "swamp pop." It manages to er record label. The hometown crowd BY STEVE ARNlBRUSTER maintain the pace set by the previous 26 ...... SIP'IIM8a . sizzler. With the fun-loving skill of more than just another Cajun band." from the bass of Sharon Leger, herself the arena. Case in point: Kenneth Bl~ the band and the vocal tricks of their • 'I try to be as original with my own un fille comme jolie brune. (Sharon vins, whose impeccable drum work is leader, Stir Up the Roux comes to a songs as I can be. Melodically I've elsewhere contributes a spectacular a solid asset to this album. His study wonderful finish. tried to be unique. Lyrically, 90% of zydeco chirp and steady basswork of the Cajun rhythms began seriously Interestingly, Bruce does not use Cajun songs say the same thing: a throughout the disc.) about the same time. any zydeco accordion on the album, woman leaves a man and he's in mis The opening song, "Laissez Kudos must also go to Scott but he has just started performing this ery. What I've tried to project are Faire," expresses another popular Goudeau, who served as engineer at title song with that very instrument in some new themes." sentiment: "Let it be, my pretty one; Ultrasonic Studios in New Orleans, concert. As his own roadie/equipment "Disco at Fais Dodo" is about a let's dance all night long." It is where the album was·recorded. A fine man, Bruce decided it was "too much young boy who used to change the offered in a manner that is hard to musician in his own right (Scott is a of a hassle'' to carry an electric guitar station when he heard a Cajun song. resist. Of all the songs, it is the one jazz guitarist), he had the work ethic just for one or two songs. Instead, he He wanted to hear music that was the rriost ready to stick in one's mind. A needed to match Bruce's perfectionist has picked up the zydeco squeezebox "same as the Americans." After true party song, an anthem,.it is a tune drive. and is working a few more pieces like leaving Louisiana he began to some other group might gladly add to Scott, Bruce, and Bruce's dad "Hot Tamale Baby" into his stage appreciate his culture and yearn for their playlist. It lets you know right spent countless hours mixing. "We act. Eventually, he would like to bring the fais-do-do, a gathering where from the start this album is going to be might have listened to the same song another fiddle to his sets so he can join whole families would dance until long good. thirty or forty times a day. What most his current fiddler, Waylon Thi after the babies in the other room went Taken as a whole, Stir Up the Roux people might have kept I said, 'No, bodeaux, for some Dennis McGee off to sleep. makes a statement about the condition that's not quite right.' And Scott Dewey Balfa fiddle duets. "The Red River Waltz" proposes of Cajun music. The fact that it can be would say, 'Well, let's do it again.' Again it is a question of time. He that love and not money_ brings true fresh, fun, and appealing to an ever We did it that way because we wanted spends his days being a businessman: happiness. widening and mostly young audience, to make the best record possible." booking the band, negotiating con "The Marksville Two-Step" is an while remaining faithful to its old Apparently Rounder agreed. After tracts, promoting the record, organiz epic. As a boy, Bruce heard the story forms, shows the music to be both • receiving the tape in the mail, they ing rehearsals, maintaining equip of Marc Elliche. His wagon wheel vibrant and current. decided it could be pressed into an ment, and doing the paperwork. On broke. Looking around he saw a land Bruce recalls that what really in album without even so much as a re the gigs, he fronts the band, sets up so fine he decided just to stay there. spired him to start playing was seeing mix. All they had to do was get and takes down his equipment, and The town of Marksville was the re his friend Terry Huval with his band Wavelength photographer, Rick Oli meets as many of his listeners as he sult. Now this legend is a song. It "Jambalaya" at the 1978 Festival des vier, to join the band at Sid-Mar's in can. In between all this, he must still already sounds timeless, an instant Acadiennes. "Up until that time, Ca Bucktown for a few candid snapshots. find time to practice and to write "classic." jun music had seemed like the old Then their art department did some songs. He sa,ys, "Nothing is as re The other originals bear familiar people's music. All of a sudden I see accompanying layout work to com warding as listening to a final version messages. "Les Filles Cadjines" these guys 22 years old pulling on plete the cover. Bruce supplied trans of my own song and knowing it all boasts "that in all the world/The pre accordions and singing in French, and lations for those of us who do not came from inside." He taps his head ttiest girls are them pretty Cajun that had a big impact on me, more "parlez Cadjine." And all we have to and heart as he says this. girls." (A message worth repeating.) than if it had just been the older do is listen and enjoy. • Writing his own material, as well as A dreamy little tune bubbling over guys." (Note: to get on Bruce's mailing a high-energy approach to perform with hospitality, it is worth hearing The youngsters also brought their list, write to 725 Hesper Ave., ing, are keys to his strategy "to be just for a Duane Eddy-style twang talent and good production values into Metairie, LA 70005.) "The music starts at The Music Stop" RandaJl INSTRUMENTS, INC. See & Hear One of the Hottest Rock Amps @the Music Stop! 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We've been dis 586-9243 covered, and history shows what routs OPEN 7 DAYS discoveries can be. Our major export, BY NliCHAEL CORCORAN l • I 28 ...... SIP'IIM8IIl got a heapin' help in' of top notch sin ger slash songwriters like Butch Han cock, Darden Smith, Jimmy Gilmore and tons of others who keep slipping theirtapes to Joe Ely. We're home for the Killer Bees, the top U.S. reggae band. And here come the Wagoneers and Tony Perez to aim a silver-tipped boot at the sagging posterior of the local country scene. We've got the bosses that transcend the bosses, and they're in reach seven days a week, usually for very low cover, if you have to pay at all. Because of the small town inbreed New Orleans ing and reciprocal back-washing that is rampant in Austin, guest lists are usually written on rolls of butcher and Moonlighting paper and it's not out of the ordinary for a packed club to contain as many freeloaders as paying customers. But this is an occurrence that meets wun little protest. The clubs make their money at the bar, as the privileged the rn5ful~ many usually buy more drinks to Listen to COs through the 3130 and quench the thirst their ego has after being waved through customs: the discover for yourself the audible bands get to perform to bigger difference between rated 8-ohm next to legislation and college de crowds, and won' t the A&R people be output and real speaker driving powerf grees, has long been underachieve impressed?; and scenemakers with no ment that you can dance to. But now money don't have to stay home, our lazy, groover's paradise has been where they run the risk of becoming THE 4130 AM/FM STEREO TUNER infiltrated by record company dogma addicted to TV, which would even and its bewitching assortment of plati tually crimp the disposable income of BOTH PIECES Twice as sensitive in stereo as num carrots and greased dotted lines. hairdressers, which would sub- most other tuners. Acception Bands that once played for free beer .sequently cause the local Royal Regularly $456 immunity to RF overload and and the pleasure of their music, now Crown distributor to send his kids SALE over-modulation. Convenient only get excited when A&R patsies back to public school. And we don't PRICE $348 high-precision digital tuning with are at their gigs. The most-asked want that. 5 FM and 5 AM presets. question at the "bar is not "what sign Physically as well as mentally, Au , are you?" but, rather, "how close are stin is sprawling outward, with fran ' you to signing?" New groups form chise eateries winking at weary com with the intent to get a record deal, not muters enroute to their suburban for the old-fashioned reasons of want dream homes where they've been liv ing to drive the neighbors crazy and ing for two years but still have to read wanting to get laid. They play the the sign to make sure that street is same dives that Timbuk 3, Omar and theirs. We're no longer a sleepy liber the Howlers, Nanci Griffith and Steve al outpost. But every so often some Earle played less than two years ago thing will happen to reinstate Austin and it doesn't take long for them to as a city with soul, with an inherent figure that, well , who knows, maybe verve that humbles power lunches and they're next. They're all dressing wrinkles satin jackets. For me, such much better these days. an inspiring instance raised its Slight spiritual shifts aside, though, glorious head at Antone's recent . Austin is still a great town for music. week-long 12th anniversary celebra There's just too much talent here that tion. On hand was just about every even Dino DeLaurentis and $100 mil blues great well enough to travel in lion couldn't fuck it up. The tuneful cluding Pinetop Perkins, Calvin town we're most compared to is Jones, James Cotton, Matt "Guitar" Athens, Georgia, and its wealth of Murphy, S.P. Leary, Hubert Sumlin, curly-haired guitar-stingers out to Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy, Smoky THE 3130 INTEGRATED AMPLLFIER show that they can slur their lyrics as Smothers and on and on. Every night Conservatively rated at 30 watts/channel with a 3dB of well as Michael Stipe. We have our the jamming went on way past last call dynamic headroom, delivering over 60 w/ch ofmusic into every night the club share of college-educated songsmiths at 2 a.m., and all speaker impedances. High current output stage easily world with ringing stayed packed as long as the blues out to change the drives complex and reactive speaker impedances as low chords and ideas that sprout from rolled out. as 2 ohms. $1 .25 cups of coffee. We used to This is the sort of·thing that An jokingly call this camp ' 'The New tone's is known for; the magic that Sincerity" until we realized that the comes when you have a stage full of rest of the country thought we were blues legends who are revered the being serious. (Best putdown of the world over, yet never forgot that their label came from Wavelength's own music is about pain and alienation Rico who wrote that New Sincerity which goes away only when they sounded like the name of a new communicate with their instruments scented douche.) But Austin also has and discharge their souls in a form that the country's hottest blues scene and doesn' t punish fiery expression and its best blues club, Antone's. We've emotional abandon. The blues are as pure and simple as a heartbeat, the - hannonics of a Hollywood hamhock. leave until 2:30a.m., when the great percussion of life. It is absolutely in- Willis arrived, shadowed by his hannonica player from Chicago threw corruptible by the clouds of progress video cameraman, and sparked an his anns up after his third and fourth 5 fjack and the modem day affinity for short- epidemic of "look who's here"s as he encore and said, " That's it. No more. term pleasures and heroes seemingly headed backstage to meet some of the This old man's gotta get some sleep." CJJempsey's chosen by lottery. It's strictly internal guys he's only known through the lin- By that time Bruce Willis was on a in an age when external characteris- er notes of Muddy Waters and How- plane for LA, where he would be I CJlestaurant tics are all-important and the adage lin' Wolf records. A few minutes later mobbed at the airport and then S; that "beauty is only skin deep" has he was onstage jamming with Jimmy whisked to plush offices where he n been twisted in meaning to serve as Rogers and the Antone's house band. would tum over the Austin tape to a re cr,#A(~ · the banner under which tan, fit, The dancefloor remained empty ex- video editor named Rick who is crea- 8; disease-free America does spandex cept for one couple who moved like tive with camera angles and applause. di jumping jacks to • 'The Heart of Rock they checked their rhythm at the door. The finished product will show Bruce fo., ~«~- and Roll." He took a solo. So so. Then came Willis blowing harp smoke all over a R Bruce Willis, the frat Mickey another blast of lethargic air and then sweaty crowd under the smiling Fi SEAFOOD Rourke and hawker of wine coolers, Jimmy Rogers to the rescue. Willis approval of his blues mentors. The ~ aad has discovered the blues, good for played the blues like a rich TV star girls at the office will love it. A nation s S ... EAB DIIIIIEBS him. He's taken hannonica lessons and an unimpressed audience went of occupied Lazy Boy recliners will p (from the same guy that taught Dan back to their conversations and drink receive their first exposure to Pinetop s Ackroyd, probably) and embarked on orders. Perkins, Jimmy Rogers and whoever f , Tuesday 11 a.m. to 2:30p.m. a musical career aimed at secretarial When he left the stage 20 minutes else shows up for a split second in the tf pools that are glad to finally be able to later and retreated backstage, nobody background. Bruce 7 Wednesday 11 a.m. to 9:00p.m. Willis will come h spend their money on something other went back for an autograph or a ner- off with more credibility as a serious Thursday 11 a.m. to 9:00p.m. a than male strip shows. The secretaries vous, forced exchange that would blues musician. Such is the synthetic 1 Friday 11 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. don't care what kind of music Bruce grow with each recounting. They just truth that money and technology can Saturday 4 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. plays, just as long as he smiles at them sipped their drinks until Snooky Pryor provide. Perhaps, in its glossy pro- 1 and dresses to the left. But Willis came out to show B. W. which side of duction, many Austinites will sway ' 0 Closed Sunday and Monday loves the blues. The notes are easy to the harp to blow into. Just before he with Willis, the bluesman. The screen p play, the words are easy to remember left, Willis peeked in to see a packed is an unchallenged messiah to so [ and now the world knows: Bruce Wil- dancefloor overflowing to the side many. But I'm proud to say that face 1 iiit'ltpi'F lis likes Negroes and their music. and snaking between tables. He heard to face, without editing or enhancing, It was a Monday night when Bruce yelps or recognition•follow each im- Austin was too cool to kiss Holly- [ Willis got in a limo at the a1rport ana passioned solo and watched the play- wood's ass the 't NoT.t.OiotSerrice first time around. You instructed the driver towards An- ers dig into the sound that Neilsen shoulda seen his face when he watch- f Aa 10 platoa ...... o.t at Till* ... S .25 tone's. It would tum out to be a night can't possibly put into numbers. ed Snooky Pryor do, as naturally as No Sep.aa Cllecb ,._ when Austin flared its essence as a Willis left out the back door, breathing, what would take Willis ...... ,, ---.,.Gatloit)' ...... town with unflinching musical priorit- though he could've walked right thousands of dollars and a team of 7sa ...... ,.. • M3-MM ies. Austin would choose real blues through the club, unbothered. The technicians working overtime to pre- from the crowd wouldn't masters over• the smug self- let Snooky Pryor tend he did . • Audio-TeCh, Inc. When experience counts you can count on . V .... A. Allied Audio-Tech ~ ~/ ...,-- For all your Sound ~~ - ~ t• ~e Lighting and D/ needs ,~ ~ THE LANDMARK GATSBY'S ~,() CONFETTi'S ')ED'S LOOKOUT ~ THE OCEAN CLUB THE RIVIERA CLUB 'tAMAHA® () THE PARK BARTS ~ AMERICAS LE BISTRO W CELEBRITIES THE BOURBON PUB SHARKEY'S REEF ROYAL ORLEANS _j, ft · "'~~ CWBNEXUS HOULIHANS So. unucta. sysrems. 1nc. 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The show starts in the Municipal Au ••• • ditofium at 8 p.m. Call 367-1313 for ticket in formation. ar.a TIIDIIIas celebrates the anniversary of the Riverwalk in the Spanish Plaza around 8 p.m. Rreworts also mark the occasion. Free. Ala Cllilloll, formerty of the Box Tops and Big Star, performsatTipitina's, 501 Napoleon, at10 GOSPit p.m. The John Thomas Griffith Band opens. Sunday& Fall.,..... appears atin the Spanish Plaza m 7:30. He is playing in honor of the Riverwalk's . anniversary. Phone 522- 1818. Wednesday 9 · 1'111111111••••• had the number one record on the college radio ct1arts all summer. They plan to show up at Tipitina's around 10 p.m. Dash Rip Rock opens. TIIIIISday 10 wwoz .-. The Storyyille Jazz Hall, 1103 Decatur, wil host this party to aid our communi {itE(;{;; ty radio station. Phone 586-1238 for more in Sunday 20 Harris reads the Ma formation. . Poeby lfeMIItli. Nancy at I [ \ "'li ple Leaf at 3 p.m. Sablnlay 12 ,.,..,. The guy who played guitar for the Wednesdiy 23 at running for Rolling Stones in the early 1970s will play at c.... , ...... ,...__The five men WM~e~Uy2 have it out at Tulane Uni Ttpitina's. Phone 897-3943 for details. IIPCA ...... The Movement for Peace in Governor of louisiana OVER 80 ARTISTS SIN o.t 1'111 ,..__Yes . Pope John Paul II in Central America meets every Wednesday at 7 versity. Phone 865-5409 for details. Super PERFORMING ON 3 concert, so to speak, at the louisiana p.m. Phone 895-213Q. Saturday 26 • dome in the afternoon, and at the UNO l...akefront STAGES AND IN THE Arena in the Mfling. Fans may phone 866- Rlcycle lew Orlela. Help clean up our corner POPE for advice as to where one may glimpse Satu,:t.:.! of this earth. The Louisiana Nature and Science GOSPEL TENT the pontiff. Others may call529-5027 for a sche Center sponsors this pick up at 11000 Lake 246-5672 for details. eMusic 'food · dule of demonstrations. ~daythe Zoo hold. The~':o~ a plant sale ~ Forest Blvd. Phone at the Heymann's Con- eGames eerafts Tlllday 15 from 9 a.m. . SUnday 27 servatory are a... Ina and Shot Down in Ecuador, Jr. the Reptile Paltry ...... Works of William Faulkner • flea Market Also. head on over to 8316 appear at Stotyville around 10:30. Encounter exhibit opens read. Open mike, too, so SAT., SEPT. 5, 1987 your poetry! tOday I with 6, 1987 Wedlelllay16 SUN., SEPT. s.lclllllli1 •• trll• and Shell Shoct invade SUnday 6 Mondly 28 (labor Day Weekend) Storyville. This is the club·s first hardcore show...... , ...... The Maple leaf, 8316 oak, T.-.. The Fourth Annual Virginia Slims of New LakefrontArena. Chris so go easy on them! · these weekly readings at 3 p.m. This week Orleans opens at the UNO hosts . For tickets phone 888-8181 . 1'111 ••• u.. play reggae at Tlpitina's from Robert Borsodi and Sarah Beth Ainn read. Evert has entered The F.. tlvll Gat• wll open_. 11:00 AM 10:30. Phone the concert line at 897-3943. .net will C1oM _. 7:00 PM dilly RAIN or SHINE friar 11 ::::t.!.... . Another dull Monday? It I il fi i ''/,;,j ~j .... ftllll ...... featuring Mar1t Farner, doesn't have to bel Pass by 724 Dumaine, one of perform at Jimmy's, 8200 Wllow Street. the few places open on Monday, and learn about 111t11 ,.,.., _. ._-. IIICIIIIII come to psychic readings, rituals and crafts. Admission LABOR DAY WEEKEND Tipitina's, 501 Napoleon. The show should start is nominal, and tours are also offered. call 523- ...... ,..,.lfes- $1.50 tor Adllltlllld ChllciNn 1110.00 111 g111e1 aroood 10:30. 7685. tlnl. On Saturday 5 and --~-·1101'1'1111...... s-_.a.. play at Storyville, 1103 Decatur, Sunday 6 the old driving .f, -...u:ATICI... W ._,_,TMI arotnf 10 p.m. range in City Park will =,-,.,.- host the Popeye's Blues · T1clleta Av.llable Ill All 1'111 ,.will be in New Orleans. John Paul wil and Gospel Festival. SCHWEGMANN GIANT SUPERMARKETS food and ~. our local boy wonders, play at give a papal mass at UNO's Lakefron Arena at 4 There will be IIIII Ill ntE FESTlVAL GATE or "' Pllone: =the Boot, 1035 Broadway. These guy play p.m. Saturday. For information about other ac crafts as well as music 5041866-7974 fanlastic rock 'n• rol, and their album is being tivities, pro-Popes can call 861-2556. Those on four stages. Talents who will appear include . · played on allemati¥e radio a1 over the country. who wish to protest can phone 529-5027. Albert King, Gatemouth Brown. Lonnie Mack, Johnny Adams. the Zion Harmonizers, Gospel S.Hiy 13 . Soul Children, and more. All artists will perform ~ --. ~- lw ..._ ...... In honor of the Pope's visit, both days. For tickets, phone 866-7074. n:-..: ~ grace the Tqlitina's stage the Maple Leaf poetry reading group invites you Cltln:lt fair. Mansura, Louisiana holds this tra ...... _ ._ _. bollt nights at 10 p.m. to share your worts on their open mike. Phone ditional party at St. Paul's Church. Rides, food, ...... ,.,...... _,.. __.... _.... 866-l.EAF. and music will be offered all weekend. Phone (318) 964-2921 for directions. Ploduced"' 8any ...... ~ 1!. and the Balancing Act appear at T1esday 15 Rect Fer .. lleaell is an alternative music T!pitina's, 501 Napoleon, at 10:30. Both groups 811 t1 IHIMI. Help eliminate birth defects with festival to be held in-Bloomington, Indiana. Over have had recent progressive radio hits. the AT&T March of Dimes Celebrity Golf Classic, 50 bands will perform, movies will be shown, -.. at Ormond Country Club in Destrehan. An auc and food will be eaten. Phone (812) 333-6917 if 01.: tion will also be held. Phone 522-(1865. you'd like to go seethe Raunchettes, Hicl ------~~~ •lrav•l•• dt•~------Rock, new music and local bands are Jimmy's specialty. Call the concert line at 861-8200 tor updates and prices. Tuesday 1: True Faith for $1 I Wednesday 2: John Griffith. Friday 4: The Press. Saturday 5: Grace Darling, Randy Couch, The Subterraneans, and Abstract Illusions. [1 • National Wednesday 9: Tabula Rasa . Friday 11 : Radiators. Saturday 12: Waka Waka . Tuesday 15: Ogum Boogum. Wednesday 16: Grace Darl· ing. Friday 18: Grand Funk Railroad. Saturday SEYfEMBER 19: Off the Cuff. Friday 25: Radiators. Saturday 26: Multiple Places and John Thomas Griffith. ART&HOBBY Wednesday 30: Force of Habit, Another Bright Regular Features Color. . Kelly's, 1311 lyons. This small neighborhood Sundays & Mondays bar often features free live music. Cyril Neville's Jukebox Night Uptown Allstars play here often. Pass by and Thursdays enquire. located near Prytania, where lyons File Cajun Band CUSTOM FRAMING splits. ...,.. Laf, 8316 Oak Street, 866-LEAF. Every Weekdays Sunday and Monday the Maple leaf holds juke Wed 2 · ~ PRINTS • POSTERS box night. Each Thursday you can catch the Ale Boogie Chillun Cajun Band. Most shows start around 10 p.m. . Tue 8 Channaine Neville Wednesday 2: Boogie Chill'un. Friday 4: &: Amasa Miller XEROX COPIES Radiators. Tuesday 8: Charmaine Neville and Wed 9 Souled America Real feelings. Wednesday 9: Souled America. Tue 15 Harlan White Friday 11: Song Dogs. Saturday 12: Beausoleil. Wed t6 NOBD Wednesday 16: N.O.B.D. Friday 18: Rockin' Wed 30 NOBD BEADS • TIE DYE • AIR BRUSHES Dopsie and the Twisters. Saturday 19: Char· PAINT • BRUSHES maine Neville. Friday 25: Freedom of Expres Weekends • CANVAS • GLUE sion. Saturday 26: Song Dogs. Wednesday 30: STYROFOAM • MODELS • TOOLS • BUGS N.O.B.D. Fri 4 Radiators Mister B's, 7900 Earhart. live music often. Call Sat 5 TBA BUNNY MATTHEWS ORIGINALS 866-9245. Fri II Songdogs TlpHina's, 500 Napoleon, 897·3943. See calen· Sat 12 Beausoleil dar for the complete schedule for this historic Fri 18 Rockin Dopsie & New Orleans' Most Complete Art & Hobby Shop club. Tipitina's features classic local groups and the Twisters acts of international fame. Tuesday 1: Tabula Sat 19 Channaine Neville A FUN PlACE TO Rasa, with New Orleans Stick Band. Saturday 5: & Real Feelings SHOP! Alex Chilton special with guests the John Tho Fri 25 Freedom of Expression mas Griffith Band. Wednesday 9: the Replace ments, whose latest release topped the alterna Sat 26 Songdogs OPEN 10:00- 5 :30, MON- SAT tive radio charts all summer, appear with Dash 5835 MAGAZINE STREET 899-4491 Rip Rock. Sunday 12: Mick Taylor, former Roll ing Stones' guitarist. Wednesday 16: The Mediterraneans play reggae. Friday 18: Blues Queen Koko Taylor and her Blues Machine. Sat· ~ urday 19: the Radiators. Friday 26 and Saturday 8316 Oak Street ~ 27: the Neville Brothers. Monday 28: 10,000 Maniacs. Tuesday 29: David Bromberg. Wednesday 30: the Paladins with Johnny J. and the Hitmen. Tyler's, 5234 Magazine, 891-4989. Every Friday and Saturday: the James Rivers Movement at 10 p.m. Sundays: Santiago latin Jazz Fusion , 9:30 to 1. Wednesdays: leslie Smith and Phil Parnell. Thursdays: Walter " Wolfman" Washington . RARE! Bronco's, 1409 Romain, Gretna, 368-1000. Country music. Mondays, Wednesday, Fridays and Saturdays: Mississippi South. Call for con cert updates and directions. 1101 Clult, 1801 Stumpf Blvd., 367-9670. Mahogany, Thursdays from 9:30 and Saturdays from 10. Wednesdays from 9:30, Up 'n' Up. Emtrgtncy Room West, 4001 lapalco Blvd., Marrero, 347·9439. live music every Sunday! fit Cats, 505 Gretna Blvd, 362~98 . Mondays, Tuesday, Thursdays through Saturdays: the Groove Band with Jimmy Simon. Mlclul•l's Restau11111t, 601 Patterson, 361- AL BROUSSARD JOHN "Lightning" 4969. Features restaurant and music bar. Wed: "Music of a Lifetime" MAGNIE The File Cajun Band . Thur. Paul Beach and the Jefferson Countryboys. Fri: Stardust count,Y "Now Appearing" music band. Sat: luzianne country band. Sun: Harmony queens the PfiSter Sisters. RIDCOIIMia Vlej1 8tlmf1, 2105 Hancock St., Gretna, 367-6733. latin big bands. Mlrtlll Wluirt, 5353 Paris Road, Chalmette, 2n-8215. Thursdays through Saturdays from Also available on Rabadash Records: 9:00: Frank Dallas. 01111111 Rlnr's, Highway 90 in Avondale, 436- 3912. Occasional live music including some big Celtic Folk "Live on Bourbon Street" name rock acts. Please call for their July sche Sally Townes ''The Cat's Meow" dule. Randy Hebert "Can't Get Enough" ~LAKEFRONT Tile Bounty, 1926 West End Park, 282·9333. Sun, Wed, Thur: The Topcats play original pop Available and rock music. at record stores throughout New Orleans Mens, 6200 Elysian Fields, 288·3440. Mon days: Gong Show. Track One Band. Thursdays: David Torkanowsky plays jau. Weekends: Mall Orders: Send check or money Noah's Orchestra with George French and Philip Manvel. order for 8.95 + $2 handling to: · Rabadash Records ~METAIRIE/ P.O. Box 19384 • New Orleans, LA 70179 KENNER Blvlrtan Inn, 3941 Houma Blvd. Fridays and 34 ...... • aaanr• Saturdays: authentic German music, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Cat Man Lounge, 7122 Mistletoe. 737-1264. Most weekends: The Oldies But Goodies Band . Captain's Castle, 4740 Rye Street, Metairie, Presenting 455-8862. Fridays and Saturdays: Billie Bell and the Dominoes, 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Chesterfield's, 3213 Kingman ; 888-9898. Thursday through Sunday: soft rock and pop bands, top 40, oldies, etc. 9 p.m. to close. Club Sunset, 3515 17th Street, Metairie, 887- l.arriJ CoriJell :: 0236. Wednesday through Sunday: Tal Sellers plays 50s and 60s standards from 9 p.m. to 2 and a.m. Frankie Brent's, 4727 Utica Street, Metairie, O"ation Guitars HARE 889-9848. In addition to the all-male revue, this club features bands such as the Topcats, Sam Mclain, and others periodically on the VIDEOS weekends . Sept. 22 7 p.m. Gigi's, 17001-10 Service Road, in the Roadway ~ Jimi Hendrix Inn, 467-1300. This newly remodeled club op Admission Gateway Hotel Tickets ens on August 15. Harvey, Jesus and Fire will ~ John Coltrane play oldies here often, call for the exact sche $3 2261 N. Causeway at dule. Mitchell's ~ Bob Marley Godfalher's, 3020 N. Amoult Road, 455-3232. ~ Judy Garland Wednesday through Sunday: Creole Cookin and Tomato, 10 to 2. ffi Elvis Presley Highway Lounge, 5901 Airline Highway, 733- R~Q Thnr~~vthrouoh Sundav: Country Touch ~ Ike & Tina from 9 p.m. until 3 a.m. Jefferson-Orfeans North, 2600 Edenbom, 454- ~ Duke Ellington 6110. Wednesday and Sundays: bib band music Committed to professionals, sensitive to beginners THURS NITES 'TIL BPM by Pat Barbero! and Jay Zalney's orchestras. .~ Prof. Longhair La Medley, 3124 Loyola Drive, Kenner, 467- 6403. Music on weekends, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. F E L A and more! Mitchell's, 2221 Veterans Blvd .• 468·2788. Music on weekends. Call Mitchell for the com CALL 891-5347 plete schedule . for PLAYLIST Occhipinti's, 2712 N. Amoult Road. 858-1131 . Tuesday through Saturday: Candy Riedi at 8:30. OPEN DAILY 11-8 Petal's Restaurant, 2320 Veterans Blvd., 835- 2000. Friday and Saturdays: a four piece band with a singer perform standards from the 1940s. 1'Uiu~ 50s and 60s. 4721 Magazine Street Pete's Lounge, 1822 Airline Highway, 469- 8938. Fridays and Saturdays: Nicki Southern's New Orleans, LA 70115 Cajuns play country and cajun music, 10:30 until 2:30 ...... N.O. EAST \8t~uKPsR~-· Autocrat's Club, 1725 St. Bernard Avenue, Mid city, 945·9642. Music on weekends at 10 p.m. What has 52 input modules, 48 output includes High Voltage and the A.F.B. · 0!;>-~) Beau Geste, 7011 Read Blvd ., 242·9710. Live busses, parametric equalization, 12 effects music weekend nights. Billie's Sliver Dollar Saloon, 8600 Chef Men Q • sends, 8 headphone mixes, complete ~~o~e~ leur, 242-8770. Music most weekends. computer automation and sounds absolutely, positively, · ~9~6-G~ STUDENTS! Boat Lounge, Gulf Outlet Marina, Chalmette, 277-2628. Sundays: Jaennie Marrerra Toea, really insanely great? Visit Our from 8 p.m. Cubby's, 87100 Lake Forest Blvd., 241-6769. BACK BAR ' Fri and Sun: Rockin Jerry and the Spice of Life. and our Wed: Stan the Oldies Man spins the discs. PATIO CAFE Mlke'sAfterHours. 10100 Morrison Road , 245· Featuring Our Legendary 1150. Mondays and Thursdays: music from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. JUKEBOX! Mr. C's Lounge , 6510 Morrison Road , 245· 8758. Music some weekends. MONDAYS Domestic Beer $1.25 all day/all night roESDAYS Draft Beer Night 50¢ Glass/$2.50 Pitcher Free Oysters 7 pm - 10 pm Borsodl's Coffee House, 5104 Freret, 895- WEDNESDAYS 9292 . Tuesday 8: poetry reading . This au Ladies Night thentically weird coffee house also features per 1st Drink Free. 1/2 Price iodic live music and plays. Mixed Drinks Cafe Brasil, 2100 Chartres. 947-9386. Live music on some weekends. Monday 17: the NO/ 8 pm - 12 am AIDS Task Force holds a benefit poetry reading. THURSDAYS Cafe Calzone, 900 N. Peters. 525-8605 . Their Busch Night. 75¢ Busch phone is out of order. but they're rumored to Long necks. 9 pm - 'til have live classical and folk music occasionally. Cafe Oeii'Arte, 720 Dublin , 861-4227. Thurs FRIDAYS days:. depending upon which Thursday you hit Could you rephrase the question? Free Oysters. 6 pm - 9 pm this uptown spot. you'll see Patrick Kerber play 50¢ Draft. 6 pm - 8 pm ing classical guitar or you'll stumble into a SATURDAYS musical gathering and wish you 'd brought your A • instrument. Saturdays: Brasilian music by the Rotating Import Beer Specials • Aruanda Trio, from 8:30 to 10:30 . U L T R A S 0 N c S T U 0 0 s SUNDAYS Cafe Katie, 1818 Magazine. 525-0247. Satur S1.50 Bloody Marys. 11 am - 5pm day: guitarist Victor Sirker and vocalist Leslie • 24/48 track recording • audio-for-video lockup • digital mixdown Smith. 7210 Washington Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana (504) 486-4873 Now with 2 Great JUKEBOXES Cheshire Cat. 1201 Decatur, 522-4792. Occa ·4801 Yagcu1De 899-9228 sional live music. Penny Pos~ Coffee House, 5100 Daneel. Folk ~·W11Yele...._35 October 1: Claude Bern's new film Jean de music every night from 8:30 to 11. Check the long run at this uptown in the bathroom! Florette has an unusually graffrtti theatre. Most shows at the Prytania start at 5:15, True Brew, 3133 Ponce de Leon, 947-3948. 9:45. Phone 895-4513. Sundays: poetry from 4 to 6. 7:30 and CONlEDY ·A Gallery for Fine Photography, 5423 Maga The Mint, 504 Esplanade, 525-2000. Tuesdays, zine 891-1002. Opening Saturday 28: The Thursdays and Saturdays: Harry Mayronne and photogpraphy of Herb Green , including_classic Ricky Graham, with shows at 9 and 10:30 p.m. protraits of Janis Jplin, the Jefferson Airplane, Marie Laveau's Restaurant, 329 Decatur Grateful Dead and other scenes from the sum Street, 525-9655 . Fridays: ·~Hot Stuff, New mer of love. Green will be on hand atthe opening Orleans Style," starring Becky Allen, Fred Pal to tell stories and answer questions. misano and Wanda Rouzan. Academy Gallery, 5256 Magazine, 899-8111. Punchllne Comedy Club, now located at 1200 Ail month: group show featuring Shirley Lemon, S. Clearview Parkway, phone 734-LAFF. Open Anna Paik, Stella Fallwell, Nini Bodenheimer, Tuesday through Saturday. Through Sunday 6: Dennis Perrin and Joyce Hagen. Chas Elstner, Trip Wingfield, and Cliff Williams. Bergen Gallery, 703 Royal. All month: displays _3001 Magazine 891-0997 Tuesday 8 through Sunday 13: Lance Montano, by gallery artists, including works by Erte, lm Ed Hart, David Kinne. From Tuesday 15: Steve pigilia and Robin Morris. 0 .• Mike Venenman, and Chris Sannes. From Cafe Brasil, 2100 Chartres. All month: the art of Tuesday 22: Bob DuBeck, Roger Mursick, Steve Rain Webb is displayed in this coffee house. Caminite. Carol Robinson Gallery, 4537 Magazine, 895- 6130. Open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Artists on display in the rotating S~f!!mer THEATRE exhibit until Saturday 26, when Revtstons, works is color pencil by Gail Morgan, will open Bayou Dinner Theatre, 4040 Tulane Avenue, Contemporary Arts Center, 900 Camp Street, SOUNd 486-4545. Performances are Thursday through 523-1216. Saturday 26: Art for Arts sake, multi Sunday. Showing through September 6: Black media art by artists living and working in Comedy. Thursday 10 through October 8: Per Louisiana. fectly Frank a musical comedy based on the life Davis Gallery, 3964 Magazine, 897-0780. Open and work of Frank Loesser. The Bayou Plaza's Monday through Saturday, 10 to 5. Tuesday 29: Bamboo Room also features theatre, so phone An exhibit on the art of Cross River opens. 486-7144. Duplantier Gallery, 818 Baronne, 524:1071. Chianti's Dinner Thealre, 4241 Veterans Blvd., Gallery artists include Robert Rector, Chns Bur 885-PLAY. Performances are Thursday through kholder, Davis Gregor, Tom Ladousa, Tom Saturday at 6:30 and Sundays at noon. All Secrest Isabella Edimison , JoAnn Greenberg , month Alone Together, a comedy by Lawrence Nancy Harris, Francis Pavy and Marvin White. GUITARS/AMPS/P.A./KEYBOARDS Roman . Gallery Simon Stem, 518 Julia, 529-1118. Op Kenner Community Theatre, Rivertown at 4th ening Thursday 10: Monotypes by Doyle Gert Don't believe Bienville St. and Minor, 468-7293. Weekends only. Friday 11 jensen, Richard Johnson, John Scott, and Call now and save money. through Sunday 27: My Fair Lady. _ Robert Warrens. Opening Saturday 26: Arthur Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter, 522-9958. Fn Silverman's sculptures. day 18 through October 4: The King and I. Gaspari Folk Art Gallery, 831 St. Peter. Galle!}' 3215 Eden born (504) 454-6331 Mlnacapelll's Dinner Theatre , 227 Cousin artists on display include Howard Finster, Dav1d Street, Slidell, 643-9671 . Performances on Butler, Clementine Hunter, St. Ge~rude Mor weekends only. All month: Godspe/1, a modern gan , Walter Anderson and Pappy Kitchens._ adaptation of the life of Jesus Christ. LeMieux Galleries, 508 Pelican Avenue, Alg1ers Rose Dinner Theatre, 201 Robert Street, Gret Point 361-1735. Artsits on disply this summer na, 367-5400. Every Thur through Sun. All include Tony Green, Mary Lee Eggart, Dennis month: They're Playing Our Song. Perrin, Margo Manning, Ric Rolston, Kate My ers and Charles Pfister. Live Art, 4207 Dumaine, 484-7245. CINENlA LSU Union Art Gallery, LSU Campus, Baton Louisiana State Museum, 751 Chartres, 568- Rouge, 388-5117. Friday 11 through October 4: faculty art show. 6968. Starring Louisiana, a Romance of the Reel .Louisiana State Museums: The Cablldo, Jack and the Real. A cultural heritage exhibit of New son Square. Louisiana History through art and Orleans in film. A must for movie fans. artifacts. The Presbytere, Jackson Square. Loyola Film Buffs Institute. Tuesday 1: The Sun. Starring Louisiana: A Man. Wednesday 2: El Norte. Thursday 3: Open Wed. through Stunt romance of the real and the reel. This exhibit of lngmar Bergman's 1966 film Persona. Tuesday more than 700 interesting remnants of feature 8: Slave of Love, a Soviet film from 1978. films made in or about Louisiana includes Wednesday 9: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush. Thursday 10: The Seduction of Mimi. Friday 11: scripts. photos, props and more. . . _ Kagemusha. Sunday 13: Lucia, a The Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade. Exh1b1t1ons Japan, 1980- , jazz and the history of black workers Call the 'AIDS Information Center product of Cuban director Humberto Solas. on Carnival show each weekend . . Monday 14: Ninotchka. Tuesday 15: The Keep. New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park, 488- This hypnotic horror film from 1983· features 2631 . The museum is free to the public on music by Tangerine Dream. Wednesday 16: Thursdays. Through September: "The Splendor Swedish director lngmar Bergman's 1957 film of Sevres " an exhibit of the famous French 522-AIDS Wild Strawberries. Thursday 17: Cat People. displayed. Animar-lovers will be 18: The Empire of Passion. Sunday 20: porcelain.' is (NEW ORLEANS METRO AREA) Friday delighted to learn that through Wednesday 30 Memories of Underdevelopment. Monday 21: feature three exhibits of animal art, Young Mr. Uncoln. Tuesday 22: October: Ten NOMA will including glass and photography, dis_p!ays. And Days That Shook The World. Wednesday 23: of course, in honor of the Pope s v1s1t, NOMA Hiroshima, Mon Amour. Thursday 24: (the long sacred art all month. film title this month} Swept Away By An will display rare est Phyllis Parun Studio, 2109 Decatur. All month: Unusual Destiny in the Sky Blue Sea of August. "City of Masks," an exhibit in black and white 800-99-AIDS-9 (and shown in the wrong month, too.} Friday25: linos. Parun says she strives to express truth Himatsuri (Festival of Fire). Sunday 27: Chu and inspire self-renewal with all her work. _ .~(TO~LL:...:-f...:.:R=EE:...:L:.::O:.::U:.::IS:.::.IANA-=-=--::_:S:..::TA...::T-=-EWI:...::..::.=.D-=.!E)L- ____ qiago. Monday 28: High Noon. Tuesday 29: Posselt-Baker Gallery, 822 St. Peter, 524- Shane. Wednesday 30: Citizen Kane . Thursday 7252. Group show including works b¥Malai_ka October 1: The Lost Honor of Katherine Blum. Favorite, Adolf Kronengold , Lenore Fned, J1m Most films are screened at 7 and 9 p.m. in room Sohr and Larry Zinc. 332 of Loyola's Bobet Hall. Phone 865-3196. Simms Fine Art 827 Girod, 528-3008. Tuesday Prytania Theatre, Prytania Street near Jeffer 8 through October 3: works by Miriam Schapiro son, uptown. Call 895-4513 for times. August and graphics by Red Grooms. 31 through Thursday 3: Straight to Hell, the new Stiii-Zinsel, 630 Baronne, 525-8480. film by Alex Cox, director of Repo Man and Sid Tilden-Foley, 4119 Magazine, 897 -530_0. and Nancy. This movie is of particular interest to Artists on display through Wednesday 23 In Wavelength readers because it stars many lead clude Lynda Benglis, Martin Delabano, Vern~n ing talents of the British pop music scene, in Fisher Linda Dele Goosine, Shirlye Rabe Masm cluding Grace Jones, Elvis Costello, Joe Strum -ter Molly Manson, Gail Nathan, Gary Panter, mer and the Pogues . 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Blues AmR CONCEPTION) • CONADENT1AI.JTY & Rhythm costs • PREGNAiiCY CONSULnNG ASSURED ct)~ . o. ~n'f''l'\ SEPIIMIIER • WGYelengtlt :rT -~·Ac.:.~ the Last Page w;thno were reading Gent - or worse. To a room with that album for about 15 - jokes! What you'd get would be lists us, poetry is serious business. It's so days and actually purged myself of \~'\ of local folksingers who have recent serious, we rarely mention it on the some bad habits I had at the time-by ly performed in Abita Springs and Last Page. What we don't understand knowing I would have something the vital information that "Fats" is that poets oughta be pretty tough when I came out of the room. It's hard Domino is a smash in Monte Carlo. skinned individuals, given that any for me to talk about. But when I heard 'Men,'' the great American Who needs a magazine to tell 'em one declaring themself a poet in this Bob Marley, I knew then what I was humorist and thinker H. that? age should be prepared for some ribb gonna be doing for the rest of my life. L. Mencken once wrote, Despite our best intentions, the ing. Recall the words of William But I was gonna be writing and singing "are the only animals that devote occasional reader - probably be ler Yeats: reggae music. I was gonna be a totally themselves, day in and day out, to cause his or her boss yelled at them or 0 heart! 0 heart! if she'd but turn different person from when I went making one another unhappy. It is an because they were bottle-fed as in her head, into. this room with Natty Dread. It art like any other. Its virtuosi are fants or because they are too in You'd know the folly of being was a spiritual experience." .. called altruists." sensitive to maintain long-lasting re comforted. About the reggae-fication of the Of course, when Mencken wrote lationships with members of the op· New Orleans' most popular band Nevilles sound: ''You can take people those words seventy years ago, he posite sex (or the same sex, if that is (without a doubt), the Neville Broth· out of Africa, but you can't take Afri wasn't talking about us-specifical their inclination) - is offended by ers ensemble, is the recipient of ca out of the people. Regardless of ly, the Last Page Dept. of this maga one of our little jokes. The sillier the almost constant reportage in this col what kind of machines we hook up zine. Our dedication, more or less, is joke, the more they freak. umn. As we have detailed the trials around us, we are still the Neville to make people happy. Our exten A reader from Atlanta got upset and tribulations of the family, we Brothers and our roots are still in Afri· sive, non-computerized market re when we said that no record had ever have tried to temper the triumphs and ca. Even on a song like "Shek-A-Na search has shown us that the best way been made in that city. that's because tragedies with comedy. Was that not Na." - the cheapest way - to make peo the really cool place to make records the method of the late James Booker? John Magnie's latest experiment is ple happy is to make them laugh. nowadays is at this abandoned drive· This month, however,- no jokes the accordion, to be heard in the pian So sometimes we make these little in movie in Soutb Dakota. Atlanta about the Nevilles. We have, in ist's collaboration with Tommy jokes. "Lively up yourself," Bob musicians have been going there for · stead, an excerpt from a recent in Malone, Johnny Allen and Steve Marley, prophet and pra~tic~ joker, years- Springsteen, Bon Jovi, all terview with Cyril Neville, con Amedee, collectively known as the sang. "And don't be no drag!" of 'Rm! Atlanta - w,ait a ducted by Austin wrirer Greg Subdudes. Several women have Imagine New Orlean$ ~'usic wit minute ... we thought th~ reader was . Stephens. Cyril performed with the fainted upon hearing Tommy's slide >I hout jokes! There'd. be 1no funky from Atlantic City! How ignorant! of Killer Bees at the Tenth An guitar in the 'dudes' rendition of .. butts, no monkeys speaking their us! niversary Sunsplash festival in "Down In The Boondocks." Actual minds, no baldheaded ~omen, no Then another pers~;m thought we Montego Bay, Jamaica on August ly, they didn't really faint. They were babies thrown out of windows and were making fun of poetry. 21 and prior to his departure, he ex light-headed for a moment, sat no ya ya's. Without jokes, New Ridiculous! As children, we used to plained his indoctrination into reggae down, had a glass of water and felt Orleans music would be just like aD hide under the covers at night with our and Rastafarianism: "What I did much better. 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