What was it like walking the halls of that place back in younger days?
Oh, I had my own key. One of the original owners was a good friend of mine. It was really an amazing time because no one realized, of course, that the grand opening night was the beginning of a new era of music in Lafayette. It just really clicked. It was a real creative time for a lot of great musicians in the area. And then the owners, the one that was doing the booking, did a great job of bringing in a lot of the great blues acts. Did you get to meet many of those blues guys? Absolutely. And, not only did I get to meet them, but I opened up for a lot of them. So, we sort of became the house band to open up for a lot of my heroes. I’d finally get to meet them and talk with them a bit. One of the biggest ones for me was Ray Charles, we opened up for him on two nights, for two shows. I had already met BB King a couple of times before. Some of the cats that I had never worked with before, like John Hammond, Jr., came through and played. Actually, for him we did kind of a Delta acoustic
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