Born on September 2, 1940, Jimmy Clanton entered his teen years just as white audiences were beginning to discover rhythm & blues music. He
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Click Here...Allen Toussaint created a monster of sorts when he wrote Mother-In-Law for Ernie K-Doe. When K-Doe recorded his signature song, Benny Spellman was ask
Click Here...Right Place, Wrong Time doesn’t quite do justice to the career of Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr., judging from his impressive list of credits. Rebennack
Click Here...With only three Billboard Top 10 hits (Elvis had thirty-eight and Fats Domino eleven), he already had two failed marriages when at twenty-two he marri
Click Here...He got his first guitar at thirteen and within a year, James Burton was a member of the Louisiana Hayride staff band. At fifteen, he joined Dale Hawki
Click Here...Watching film clips of jazz legend Louis Armstrong mopping the sweat from his brow with a white silk handkerchief, one would never guess he spent his
Click Here...Born in Campti, Louisiana, Floyd Cramer grew up in the tiny sawmill town of Huttig, Arkansas. By age five, he was teaching himself to play the piano
Click Here...Born in Abbeville and raised in nearby Kaplan, Sammy Kershaw’s father died when he was only eleven. To support his family, Sammy worked odd jobs duri
Click Here...At the first Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans in 2002, New Orleans songwriter, pianist, and record producer, Allen Toussaint, was looking over merchandi
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