Renowned swamp blues vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Carol Fran, best known for a string of single releases in the 1950s and ’60s, died on September 1 in Lafayette from post-COVID complications. She ...

Louisiana-based guitarist and harpist Leslie Johnson got the nickname “Lazy Lester” in 1957, ostensibly because Excello Records producer Jay Miller thought it suited Johnson’s relaxed style, ...

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 ...

Lazy Lester, a singer, harmonica player and guitarist from Louisiana whose country- and Cajun-tinged sound made him an architect of the style known as swamp blues, died Wednesday at his home in ...

Jacksonville native son Walter Parks has achieved success as a solo artist, as folk icon Richie Havens' lead guitarist, and with his new venture, the jazz-inspired swamp-blues outfit Swamp Cabbage.

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, ...

Like the bloodstream that flows through the body of jazz, the music and traditions of New Orleans percolates to this day. And, as jazz forms evolve, develop and turn back on themselves like a musical ...

Lazy Lester, a Louisiana-born singer and harmonica player whose rough and rollicking style of swamp blues influenced musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, died Aug. 22 at his home in Paradise, ...