Robert Leroy Johnson, one of the greatest blues musicians of all time, was born on May 8, 1911 in Hazlehurst, Mississippi to Julia Major Dodds and Noah Johnson. Although his records sold poorly during...
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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Red hot zydeco, Southern soul & blues — weekly episodes from the Zydeco Capital of the World.
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