Fifty years ago this summer, a former barber from Louisiana with a thick Cajun accent was driving around East Houston scouting locations to open his dream recording studio. Raised in a shack in Vermilion Parish by his sharecropping parents, he had barely finished high school when made a name for himself on KPAC-AM in Port Arthur, adopting the moniker The Crazy Cajun. This eventually led to bigger and brighter musical opportunities, including recording and producing records by some of the finest musicians from Texas, including Sir Douglas Quintet, Lightning Hopkins, and Archie Bell.
