<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">The story linked below is about drummer Johnny Vidacovich’s Lifetime Achievement Award from the Offbeat, the New Orleans weekly music mag.</font> I was touched by the amount and depth of praise from Johnny, while knowing that he became a better musician than I could ever take credit for. The lineage goes back another generation to Lou Dillon, who was a terrific, big-hearted teacher of me and the late Reed Vaughan in the mid-fifties. </div><div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><font face="TimesNewRomanPSMT" class="">Charlie</font></div><div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"><a href="http://www.offbeat.com/articles/lifetime-achievement-music-drummer-johnny-vidacovich/" class="">http://www.offbeat.com/articles/lifetime-achievement-music-drummer-johnny-vidacovich/</a></div></body></html>