Huey P. Meaux

b. 10 March 1929, Kaplan, Louisiana, USA; d. 23 Apr 2011, Winnie, Tx, USA. Meaux was an important figure in Tx music circles, and frequently acted as go-between, organizing for brands to license experts taken to him. A shrewd judge of strike potential, he also prospered like a maker with some excellent, contrasting functions. Barbara Lynn’s 1962 strike, ‘You’ll Lose a very important thing,’ helped financing Meaux’s studios in Houston and Jackson, which generated further achievement with B.J. Thomas (‘I’m Therefore Lonesome I POSSIBLY COULD Cry’), Roy Mind (‘Deal with Her Best’) as well as the Sir Douglas Quintet (‘She’s In regards to a Mover’), the second option of which premiered on Meaux’s personal Tribe label, one of the he inaugurated. A conviction in 1967 for violation from the Mann Take action (escorting a lady across condition lines for immoral reasons) led to his imprisonment, but he received a pardon from your then Chief executive, Jimmy Carter. It had been the middle-70s before Meaux retrieved momentum with Tex-Mex celebrity Freddie Fender, who increased from local to nationwide acclaim with Meaux’s superb Southern-style recordings. At functions to utilize this user-friendly individual’s production abilities had been Johnny Copeland, T-Bone Walker and Johnny Winter season. ‘Before another Teardrop Falls’ was a US #1 1 solitary in 1975, as well as the maker continuing this roots-based path with other functions, taking pleasure in a 1985 strike with Rockin’ Sydney’s edition from the Cajun ‘regular’ ‘My Toot Toot.’ He came out as a disk jockey in David Byrne’s film Accurate Tales in 1986. In 1996 he was caught and billed with kid pornography, sex with a, and medication trafficking. He was discovered guilty and provided a 15-12 months jail phrase in the summertime of 1996. From parole in 2002, he was back prison in Feb 2003 after violating the guidelines of his parole. Meaux premiered in 2007 and was apparently in ill wellness during following years; he passed away on 23 Apr 2011 at age 82 at his house in Winnie, Tx.