A Big and Easy Story: The Day Of the Iguanas

One mention of the Iguanas will set the tales a waggin'.

Bruce Springsteen jammed with the Tex-Mex-Mardi Gras quintetduring one of its regular Sunday night gigs at the Maple Leaf in NewOrleans. Chicago artist Lynda Barry became a fan of the band andwound up doing the album cover for the self-titled debut.

After Quint Davis, producer-director of the New Orleans Jazz &Heritage Festival, took his friend Jimmy Buffett to see the band, theHead Parrothead signed it to his Margaritaville Records label. Thesubsequent record was produced by former Chicagoan Justin Niebank,who cut his teeth at Alligator Records.

Iguanas, Alligators, Parrotheads.

It's a …