Big Easy Bound

Off to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival... Probably won't be firing off too many blogations, but I will be filing "notebook" columns for the paper Sat, Sun and Mon. You can get all of those HERE. I'll be writing about music, mayhem, booze, the current mood of the metropolis, passing out in various locales and how many soft-shell crab po boys I can eat in an hour (I'm thinking four if I skip the fries and go easy on the Abita). I'm digging the new Springsteen album -- here's my review -- so I'll be weighing in on Bruce's Sunday show, the "official" live debut of The Seeger Sessions. I'm a Dylan freak, so I'll be Bobbing out on Friday. Plus I plan on checking out C.J. Chenier, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Mardi Gras Indians, Papa Grows Funk, Elvis Costello, and then some. Something tells me the coolest show to write about will be Juvenile's Saturday set. The New Orleans rapper isn't too happy with the powers-that-be; Katrina took his house and his hometown's spirit. Juvenile, whose new album Reality Check is both catchy and cutthroat, isn't the kind of guy to mince words, so his Jazz Fest gig should be hot. Stay tuned...

Comments

[Allie, aka THE B.B.]

oh seanie, how i will miss you. oh wait! i never talk to you anymore anyways! ouchhhhhh! feel the burn old man daly! feel it. so seanie, want to email me sometime in the new future? have fun in New Orleans big papa. come back hung over with many a stories to tell.

[sparky]

Drink lots of beer and avoid the water.

[Anonymous]

Seanie,I think you are really HOT!!! Looking forward to meeting you in person in the Big EZ - perhaps you will let me earn some beads from you, in between stuffing your giant melon full of mufalettas and mudbugs.

[Anonymous]

Jeez, Elvis Costello is about as close as you get to hip and fresh .. and he just celebrated his 66th birthday ... your lineup reads like Larry King's guest list. What, Pat Boone canceled because he's already penciled in for a bikini wax?Did Clear Channel kill new music, or is it the aging, agoraphobic music writers who cling to the bloated egos of their calcifying idols like a life raft, dying of thirst in a fresh water sea?

[Sean Daly]

So angry, Anonymous. You obviously didn't have a splendid dinner of seafood gumbo, smoked sausage po boy and 32 oz. beer. You'd be in a much better mood.That said, my dietary choices should kill me any second, which might make you happy.Pretty sure Juvenile's not older than 66, but I'll check...

[Chase Squires]

Hey, :-) ... good luck with that gumbo .. I'm sure the Beer is on the Times Expense account? right?You do know that Mr. Tash reads these blogs ...

[KC]

Just remember who makes the best Jambalaya.