Neal,
During my first year of graduate school, I was a graduate assistant in the archives department of the Lethar Frazar Library of McNeese State University. Someone who wasn't affiliated with the library expressed an interest in establishing a "Museum of SWLA Music." I was asked to do some work on it, but I had already been accepted as the project coordinator of a research project on Jean Laffite which is also housed in the library with a bibliography available on the website.

Anyway, a lack on interest in the "museum" killed the project. Patti Threatt in archives picked up on the idea and managed to secure a mini-grant from one of the casinos to fund the "encyclopedia." A graduate assistant was awarded the project after I left. The entries of the encyclopedia are a combination of submissions, bios from various websites and the jackets of old albums. Some of the info is accurate, some of it is not. In the end, I did have the opportunity to provide a list of names that I thought needed to be included. It gave me the chance to insure that musicians from the Lake Charles area were not excluded like they often are. Names like Bobby Leger, Joe Bonsall, Wilbert Daigle and others were not originally listed. I added a total of about thirty names.

Thanks for the background info and your additions to the record!