STAN LEWIS (b. 1927 – 2018): Stan Lewis was the southern distributor for Chess Records, owned two record labels, owned a record store, and advertised
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Allen Toussaint (Jan. 14, 1938–November 10, 2015) created a monster of sorts when he wrote Mother-In-Law for Ernie K-Doe. When K-Doe recorded his sign
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Jean Knight didn’t have her first hit until 1971 but it was such a huge hit that it would be impossible to overlook her when discussing Louisiana rock
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A WONDERFUL REVISIT OF AN ALL TIME LOUISIANA FAVOR! It was a circuitous odyssey that carried Johnny Horton from Los Angeles, to the fishing waters
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ANOTHER 318CENTRAL.COM ARCHIVE REVISIT ... A TREAT!!! Dale Houston and Grace Broussard had known each other barely twenty-four hours when they team
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It was in December 1959 that Alvin Lee Johnson (born June 20, 1939) entered Cosimo Matassa’s recording studio. He emerged from the studio on Governor
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Baton Rouge 60’s rock band, the Greek Fountains, co-founder Casey Kelly moved to New York and got fellow Greek Fountains member Duke Bardwell a job pl
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Louisiana’s own song stylist, Charlene Howard, brings a dynamic sound to the microphone. Her unique style defies categorization, but instead is a blen
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The son of a New Orleans police officer, Alois Maxwell Hirt got his first trumpet at age six and by age sixteen, he was playing professionally. Two y
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Born in Tiel Ridge in Cameron Parish, Doug Kershaw (Jan. 24, 1936–) is Cajun music’s ambassador to the world, thanks to his 1969 national television d
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