This is the eighth release in this series of Ace CDs celebrating the indigenous rock ’n’ roll and R&B of South Louisiana and East Texas. Among the 28 rare and vintage tracks, one will find a few ...

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 ...

Walter Parks has played his guitar on stages all around the world, but his musical roots go back to public schools in Jacksonville. Parks, who teams up with blues guitarist Guy Davis for a show ...

In 2008, Adrian Fogelin helped a friend sell pottery at the Tallahassee Downtown Market. From their tent, she watched a man sing and play guitar for the visitors passing by. Fogelin was already an ...