By Keith Spera

April 18, 2009, 6:18PM

The French Quarter Festival realizes something the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival doesn't: Owen "Big Daddy O" Tufts, an original and authentic voice in southeast Louisiana blues, deserves a slot on the festival.

On Saturday evening, Tufts and his four-piece band entertained a big crowd wedged into the 700 block of Royal Street. Seated front and center on a small stage, Tufts picked and pulled at the strings of his acoustic guitar as a harmonica, baritone sax, drums and electric bass fell in alongside him.

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