re: Was SE Louisiana ever a popular stop for music artists

Hank Williams Senior had to make a few stops on the bayou or Acadiana to create the song Jambalaya.

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Goodbye, Joe, he gotta go, me oh my oh
He gotta go-pole the pirogue go down the Bayou
His Yvonne the sweetest one, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayou

Thibodeaux, Fontaineaux the place is buzzin'
A kin-folk come to see Yvonne by the dozen
Dressed in style, the go hog wild, me oh my oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayou

Jambalaya and a crawfish pie and fillet gumbo
For tonight, I'm a-gonna see my, my cher au mi-oh
Pick guitar, fill fruit jar and be gay-oh
Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayou

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Also, Jerry Reed had to at least make a stop in SE Louisiana to know where Amos Moses lived.

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About forty-five minutes southeast of Thibodaux, Louisiana
Lived a man called Doc Millsap and his pretty wife Hanna
Well they raised up a son
Who could eat up his weight in groceries
Named him after a man of the cloth
Called him Amos Moses

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Ironic that his law firm continues to exist as not much more than a DUI defender.

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I understand what you're saying, but a good attorney wouldn't let their personal beliefs stop them from defending a person.

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Who are you wanting to see that is skipping New Orleans?

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The Wonder Years should have been in New Orleans tonight, but skipped this leg of their tour with Hot Mulligan

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Everyone played the Ware house. ZZ top had an early gig there as something of a house band.

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The Warehouse was the spot. I wonder what it would have smelled like with that strong weed we have now.

Everyone then was smoking Acupulco Gold or 10 dollar an ounce pot.

I caught Peter Frampton’s tambourine there but some big old dudes wanted it worse than me.

Saw many great acts there. My friend had a peculiar roach clip at the time. You would light a joint and take a couple of hits and pass it never to be seen again. But two or three were coming at you from another direction.

My buddy lost clip and it made its way back two years later at another show!

The 70’s we’re a fine time to be a kid. We use to go to the Warehouse when we were sophomores in high school.

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ZZ top had an early gig there as something of a house band.

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Uuhmm, that would be the Allman brothers sport
that said, I witnessed many great shows between A warehouse, (yes, it was called a warehouse not THE warehouse) municipal auditorium, PMAC and later the centroplex
Zeppelin in the PMAC was the zenith of arena rock concerts
they opened with trampled underfoot and blew the doors off of that place...

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RIP in peace

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Rest In Peace In Peace?
Kinda redundant.

It's harder to get them now.....and to find them. Back in the 70s and 80s there were a lot of big named acts traveling/ touring. But they have gotten old and with rap being the main genre of popular music, less desireable....but then so is rap as a concert draw for these venues.

Name me a big time rock act today that is not pushing into their mid 60s? Sure you have Taylor Swift filling up stadiums and the occasional Garth sighting, but who else? Are there any Supergroups out there? Who are the new Rolling Stones? Billy Joel, Hell. GnR is pushing into their 60s. There really are not the level of big names out there today.

It's got nothing to do with Louisiana corruption, etc. In the 80s it had more to do with venues and availability. For a while in South LA. all you really had was the PMAC that could hold 14,000 or more and it had to work around LSU basketball in the spring. The Dome was too large and musicians HATED the acoustics. Lakefront arena could hold some bigger names but it's small as arenas go. It was not until the mid 90s and opening of the arena next to the dome that you started to get bigger names coming back regularly.

Ossie Brown and Jimmy Swaggart were both involved. Swaggart was building his Bible college, and was quite powerful, before his "Fall From Grace." Amazing his bloodline included Jerry Lee Lewis, and Mickey Gilley.

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Hayes Carll

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Saw him doing show in the Woodlands with Robert Earl Keen as the headliner last summer. By the time the encore came around Hayes had a buzz, for sure. Great show, and one of Robert Earl's last.