Multiple tributes are planed at this weekend’s Baton Rouge Blues Festival to honor Leslie Johnson, the swamp blues pioneer better known as Lazy Lester. The singer, songwriter, harmonica player, ...
Germany’s Bear Family Records, probably the world’s greatest reissue label, has given swamp blues artist and West Baton Rouge Parish native Slim Harpo the star treatment. James Moore, the singer and ...
On Friday, March 6, the longtime Wilmington blues musician will release new music for the first time since 2017.
Two decades into a recording career that has included outstanding albums for the venerable blues label Blind Pig and Tab Benoit’s Whiskey Bayou Records, Florida native Damon Fowler makes his Landslide ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Baton Rouge Blues Festival brings musicians from across Louisiana and the nation for a ...
Leslie Johnson, the architect of Louisiana swamp-blues who was better known as "Lazy Lester," died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Paradise, California. He was 85. In the 1950s and ’60s, Johnson ...
A former blues-guitar wunderkind who has five albums that charted in the Top 50 of Billboard is coming to ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, it has been announced. Also coming is a swamp-blues rocker ...
It was a crazy song for a crazy time. Tony Joe White’s ‘Polk Salad Annie’ oozed up from the Louisiana swamp to become a Top-10 hit in 1969, the year of Woodstock, Chappaquiddick and Neil Armstrong’s ...
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