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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

It hasn’t been easy following singer/songwriter Jonah Tolchin through the creative twists that follow his life fluctuations. Starting as an Americana folkie, then bluesman, the New Jersey native ...

Nashville’s Excello Records had a blues pipeline to J.D. Miller’s studio in southwest Louisiana. From 1955 through 1965, Miller produced swamp blues records for Excello, and many of the label’s ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — The Baton Rouge Blues Festival brings musicians from across Louisiana and the nation for a weekend of swamp blues. According to the festival’s website, this Baton ...

Louisiana laid back meets Breck brews at the Breckenridge Massive Beer Festival Saturday. Malcolm Welbourne, aka Papa Mali, salutes the Big Easy at 3:30 p.m. with his original music, steeped in the ...