Senator Jones, one of the most important innovators of the modern Southern Soul Sound, and who produced many Southern Soul and blues records in both New Orleans and at his “ranch” and home in the coun...
Senator Jones Dies
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In the 1920s and ’30s, Creole families from Louisiana settled in Houston’s Fifth Ward, in a neighbourhood that became known as Frenchtown — one of zydeco’s great homes in Texas.
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