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 ...

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 ...

Carol Fran, the irrepressible rhythm-and-blues and swamp-blues singer, pianist and songwriter, died Wednesday at Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center. She was 87. “My sister had a way of touching ...

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 ...

Louisiana’s Swamp Blues scene is alive and thriving, thanks to the latest offering from multi-Blues Music Award-winner and Grammy nominee Kenny Neal. According to a press release, the celebrated ...

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, ...

A former blues-guitar wunderkind who has five albums that charted in the Top 50 of Billboard is coming to ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks, it has been announced. Also coming is a swamp-blues rocker ...

Country and blues together—that’s the shit,” Swamp Dogg mused. Chances are running out to see him prove it in concert, so don ...

The Baton Rouge Blues Festival will get underway in the capital city over the weekend of April 23-24, featuring more than 35 performances and nine interviews. The festival’s mission is to encourage ...

Update: Local band Johnny Wheels and the Swamp Donkeys earn a spot in the finals of the 2020 International Blues Challenge. Click here to see results. Johnny Kennicott belts out the lyrics, his voice ...

Touching musical tributes, dancing and a fierce cooking competition Saturday were all part of the return of the Swamp Pop Festival, a fundraiser for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. After last year's ...

The Swamp Blues are alive and well in Louisiana and Louisiana's very own multi-Blues Music Award-winner and Grammy nominee Kenny Neal will release his new single, “Devil's In The Delta,” along with ...