BS: Off to New Aww'leens....

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From: olddude
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 01:31 PM

well drive safe Bobster
and get a picking ....cause nobody does them there blues as well as you

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From: PoppaGator
Date: 16 Mar 10 - 01:21 PM

Been out of the loop (off computers) from Fruday evening through Tuesday morning ~ sorry!

Looks like I haven't missed Bobert completely, though, but apparently missed his "night off" last night. I just got his phone number via PM, so I'm sure we'll get together some kind of way.

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Bobert
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 10:21 PM

Sheet fire, folks... This joint is friggin' nuts.... Wish I hadn't driven 650 today 'er i'd be out there in the streets with these peoples... Screw it... I'm gonna go mix it up!!!

Yo, P-gator... I sent you a PM with my cell... If you can spring me Monday night I might be able to work that out...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: frogprince
Date: 13 Mar 10 - 10:58 AM

Do what you have to to avoid the Azalea slides, but Don't spend your life in misery in the House of the Rising Sun!

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: GUEST,Bobert in Knox-vulle
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 08:19 PM

Hey, P-Gator...

I ain't too sure how much time we gonna have but I'm sho nuff be lookin' fir any excuse, especially Monday night, to get outta the evening "programs", i.e. endless and borin' slide show of one figgin' azalae after another... Tuesday night I'm screwed... We gonna stay on Wednesday (after the convention) and ride some trolley??? Hey, don't ask me... I'm just the friggin' driver...

Speakin' of driving, I reckon we laid down 'bout 450 miles today an' in Kodak (outside of Gatlingburg) where Dolly World is... They gotta about 20 of these music joints down there but all the folks is bunch of stuffies...

I'll try to log on, P-Gator and read the PM...

Gotta go... They only let you have 15 minutes on this thing an' there's some kid behind me that looks as if he's gonna throw a fit if I don't get off soon...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 05:58 PM

Sorry I didn't get the question earlier, in time...

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 05:50 PM

Thanks for that PoppaGator - I'll tell them in case they go near again.

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From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 03:43 PM

Jesus Just Left Chicago and He's Bound for New Aww'leens

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 03:36 PM

Richard & daughter & all:

The schedule of who's playing where in New Orleans varies on a nightly basis, of course, but here's a general guide to where "real" music can be found:

Little or nothing within the boundaries of the French Quarter (as you seem to have learned), EXCEPT:

Preservation Hall, which most people know about, on St Peter St just off Bourbon. Early start (7pm?), no liquor license (BYO).

The Palm Court Cafe is the other spot for authentic traditional jazz. Live music in a fairly classy restaurant setting. You can sit at the bar, but for the full experience, get a table and have dinner and sit through two sets. (Or show up later and sit down for coffee and dessert.)

Irwin Mayfield's new club in the 100 block of Bourbon, attached to one of the newer hotels.

Then there's Frenchmmen Street, just outside the Quarter (i.e., just "beyond," or downtown, from the corner of Decatur and Esplanade). One well-established club on the strip, Snug Harbor, has long been the city's #1 venue for contemporary jazz. In more recent years, a whole bunch of music venues have sprung up all around the Snug, a dozen or more in a three-block stretch. You can listen at the door to tell whether the current act at any given place is something you'd like to hear. This is an absolutely "happenin'" scene ~ some stuff might be a bit too newfangled for the older folks among you, but most of what you'll hear is pretty much folk/blues or jugband or trad-jazz based. Few of the clubs are large enough for really loud rock music, and what "rock" you'll find will usually be funky and/or soulful, not headbanger or techno crap.

Outside the FQ and Frenchmen, check the lsitings for what's on at:
Tipitina's (legendary, but no lonter open every night)
Maple Leaf Bar
Rock n Bowl (relocated since Katrina! Check you map...)

Extra-special on Thursdays only: Kermit Ruffins at Vaughn's Lounge, now starting at 8pm with a $10 cover. (Used to start very late and cost only $5.) If you spend only one evening in the city listening to music, this is IT, absolutely not to be missed.

And then, for low-key acoustic mostly-folkish music of wildly varying quality, there's the Neutral Ground Coffeehouse, far off the beaten track at 5110 Danneel St., way uptown near St. Charles & Jefferson Ave. Three or four different acts per evening Mon-Sat starting at 7 or 8, one hour each, and open mike every Sunday. With more than 100 acts per month, it's hard to predict who and what you might see and hear. Anyone from touring professionals with no better-paying opportunity that night, to tone-deaf angst-ridden college-kid "songwriters." I'll be appearing 8pm Tuesday March 23, and usually on the 4th or 3d Tuesday of every month at that same hour.

I'm sure I left out something, but that's a start...

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: PoppaGator
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 03:05 PM

I still regret that my one visit to Bobert's (back in '06, shortly after Katrina) was so brief ~ he'd BETTER come round to my place when he's here! I HOPE he still has internet access and sees this (and the PM I'm about to send), because I no longer have his cellphone number.

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: olddude
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 09:03 AM

Well you have fun and travel safe my hillbilly brother
and bring that geetar .. you will wow them

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 08:28 AM

Daughter and boyf did not manage to find any "real" music in N'awl'ns during their tour, only stuff that was strictly for the tourists.

Keep a list of where is good and if tehy go back I'll ask for suggestions.

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Bobert
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 07:49 AM

Too late, Amos... The P-Vine has allready met Dani... They both Carolina gals so everything is fine... Also, P-Gator been here to the farm when we were in the middle of construcdtion phase but we traded up some licks...

I din't know that Chance was in Carolina... Maybe I check back in a day 'er tow from the hotel and see where the boy is... Maybe hook up, too...

Opps... The P-Vine has just about finished goo'in' up (makeup??? fir what I don't know???) so I gotta get ready to play "I'm-just-the-driver"...

Later, ya'll...

Next stop, Knoxvulle, Tena-see...

B~

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From: gnu
Date: 12 Mar 10 - 06:29 AM

Bon Voyage.

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From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 11:59 PM

Have fun and take pix, esp. of any jammin' going, esp. with Mudcatters! Please, that is!:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:19 PM

Maybe Poppa Gator will find you and trade some licks!

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From: Leadfingers
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 10:01 PM

Have FUN Bobert !

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From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 09:56 PM

Y'all see how many good times you can find along the way. Fortunato is out that Carolina way, and Dani too, or don't you want P-Vine to meet her???? LOL!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 08:21 PM

Thanks, Janie.... See what you can do about warming up Carolina by next weekend, will ya'???

Subject: RE: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Janie
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 07:52 PM

have fun, and ya'll be safe!

Subject: BS: Off to New Aww'leens....
From: Bobert
Date: 11 Mar 10 - 07:44 PM

Well, well, well...

So tomorrow the P-Vine and I will head out for New Aww'leens, Looziana... Yep, this is the year that the Looziana chapter of the American Azalea Society is hosting the annual convention... Yippppeeee!!! Don't get no better than that???

Not!!!

But, hey, ol' Boberdz is a good sport and Iz takin' a couple of geetars and just might skip out on some of them lenghty evening slide shows of piccure of one danged azalea after the next... Anyway, I'll find a way to play some blues in New Aww'leens...

Then it's kinda a meanderin' way back thru Gaaja, stop in an kiss the gran-youngin's in Athens and then on to Ashvulle, NC where I will hopefully get myself hooked up in a good blues jam and then...

...back to Pine Grove Holler...

Tired thinkin' about all the drivin' Iz gonna be doin' over the next 11 days but a man gotta do what a man gotta do...

I'll be checkin' in from various hotels during the trip...

B~