Our Latest Book When Fiddle Was King - by Ron Yule -- Early Country Music From The North And West Regions of Louisiana
When The Fiddle was King is the story of a few pre-World War II country bands and country music in northern and western Louisiana as told by the few surviving musicians and available newspaper accounts. Several authors submitted articles about their remembrances, family members, and experiences, and these accounts are presented in their words. 140+ images of pre-war fiddling.
Includes these musicians:
Blue Valley Boys, Bossier Band, The Broussards, Burge Brothers, Burr Bunch, Carriers of Castor Creek, Clark Brothers Stringband, Clark's Merrymakers & Alexandria Hotshots, Clear Creek Wonders, Clyde Baum & Cloydis, Colvin-Sherill Fiddle Band, Conner Boys, The Country Boys, The Anatole Cradeur Band of Black Bayou, Creole Ramblers, Dark Corners Band, Dixie Pals, Eaves Boys, Fawvor Brothers, The Fiddle De Di Do Band, Fiddlin’ Lenard Duke, The Fridays, The Grangers, Green Valley Boys, Grigg Family and the Taylor-Griggs Louisiana Melody Makers, Hackberry Ramblers, The Hill Country Fiddlers of South Natchitoches Parish, The Hoods, The Jeter Boys, Jones Brothers, Junction Fiddlers, Lake Charles Playboys, “Bull” Leger and the Pine Island Cajun Band, The Leger, Guidry, and Meche Stringband, Miller’s Merrymakers / J. B. and the Merrymakers, Duce Monceaux and the Andrus Brothers, Old Fiddlers Club of North Louisiana, Pelican Wildcats, Plainview Serenaders, Rhythm Rascals, Rocks Creek Hillbilly Band, The Skilletlickers, Strickland Family, and Youk and Duma