by Bman | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
A huge hunk of cornbread would not have been more welcome during the potato famine than it is as a nickname in the career of New Orleans jazz reed player and vocalist Joe "Cornbread" Thomas. Thanks to the appetizing moniker this superior player -- who kept busy with...
by Bman | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Irma Thomas (b. February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana) whose only national chart hit in a 50 year career is 1963’s “Wish Someone Would Care”, is an enduring, Grammy winning, soul, gospel, rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. Known as the “Soul Queen of New...
by Bman | Feb 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Michael Doucet (b. Feb 14, 1951) is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana. In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA...
by Bman | Feb 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
King Floyd (February 13, 1945 – March 6, 2006) was a New Orleans soul singer and songwriter, best known for his Top 10 hit from 1970, "Groove Me". King Floyd III was born in New Orleans in 1945. His musical career started as a singer at the Sho-Bar on Bourbon Street....
by Bman | Feb 12, 2013 | Uncategorized
Charles "Hungry" Williams, born New Orleans, LA February 12, 1935, the guy who started it. Earl Palmer says he thought Hungry Williams was the guy who originated that beat used by Clyde Stubblefield with "Cold Sweat," (James Brown). When he displaced the backbeat, was...
