Born Leonard Arthur Capello Jr., in New Orleans, Louisiana on September 22, 1942, Lenny Capello has traveled a road similar to that of many
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A son of sharecropping parents, Jimmie Davis was a hugely successful singer and twice served as governor of Louisiana, both times defeating a ticket t
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Dale Houston and Grace Broussard had known each other barely twenty-four hours when they teamed up as the duo Dale & Grace to record a song neithe
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A guitar player since his teenage years, he hung out at the Blues Box, a music club and cultural center in Baton Rouge run by guitarist Tabby Thomas.
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Harold Raymond Battiste, Jr. (born October 28, 1931, in New Orleans), is an American music composer, arranger, performer and teacher. He attended New
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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