Jay Miller

b. 1923, Un Campo, Tx, USA, d. 23 March 1996, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. Among the best-known & most effective record companies from Louisiana, Miller began being a musician, using nation and Cajun rings around Lake Charles in the late 30s. Following a spell within the providers, he began to make information aimed at a little localized marketplace for Cajun music in south-west Louisiana; these, by obscure performers such as for example Lee Sonnier and Amidie Breaux, had been one of the primary information within the idiom to seem after the battle, and founded his position like a pioneer in the field. He continuing to record Cajun music and C&W on his Feature and Fais Do-Do brands, including the first information by Jimmie C. Newman and Doug Kershaw, and down the road Kajun and Cajun Classics, which presented important figures such as for example Nathan Abshire and Aldus Roger. Nevertheless, it had been when he converted his attention within the middle-50s to dark music that Miller started to develop his best-known & most long lasting legacy. Between 1954, when he 1st documented Lightnin’ Slim, and the first 60s, he founded an extraordinary set of blues and nation performers, including Slim, Lonesome Sundown, Slim Harpo, Lazy Lester, Lefty Frizzell, Kitty Wells, Silas Hogan and many more, whose function he leased towards the Nashville label Excello Information. He also continuing to release information on brands of his personal, Zynn and Rocko, including rockabilly and regional pop by performers such as for example Johnny Jano and Warren Surprise, and in the 70s, on Blues Unlimited. His set of performers was enormous, and essential was the quality sound he accomplished in his studio room in Crowley, which became inextricably associated with the indigenous seems of Louisiana. He passed away following problems from quadruple bypass medical procedures in 1996.