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, ...

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 ...

The singer, harmonica player and guitarist began his career after a chance meeting on a bus with Lightnin' Slim (Rex) In 1956, the owner of a record label suggested a promising musician change his ...

When Lazy Lester visits Baton Rouge this weekend to play the Baton Rouge Blues Festival, he’ll be home again in swamp blues country. South Louisiana is the land where the swamp blues began, and Lester ...