Man, I'd seriously like to be in ol' St. Francisville for Halloween. Wonder if that little restaurant is still there that fried up catfish belly meat that was so fucking good...

From Chuck Prophet's newsletter:

And for you lovers of the Bayou. We nailed down the Magnolia Cafe Faux Blood Festival line-up. It's a two day festival in swamps of Louisiana Oct 30, 31 with True Blood soundtrackers: Jace Everett, CC Adcock, Mike Stinson, Darryl Hance, yours truly and more. The area is beyond remote. Make the trek and eat your own body weight in powdered sugar confections. Geek out on Goldband recording artists! There'll be barefoot dancing, fishing, camping, swamp tours, haunted plantations tours [where some say they've seen the image of the bride who jumped from the side of the building to her death on her wedding day].

Yes, Hallowe’en too. And there will be costumes. Some deliberate, some probably not.

Weird and then some.

But wait there's more; just a few miles down the road the Angola Prison rodeo is on the Sunday. Itself blood sport to power of ten.

Folks, it'll get ugly. More details here: http://www.myspace.com/549998126

Ha, my friend runs the Mag now and is buying it soon. This is solely Chuck's doing. He loves playing this place and he got the other bands.

I'm going to this.

what place is that?

Hell, it's been a shit ton of years since I was there- no idea of the name, but I remember it was "downtown".

I love St. Francisville and go semi-regularly. Just wondering what place is was because I think I've been to all 3 restaurants in town.

I doubt it survived all these years (would have been in 83-84). Full report on the goings-on there, please.