Ernie K-Doe: The RandB Emperor of New Orleans (Louisiana Musicians Biography)

May 1961, and one tune was sitting pretty atop both the RandB and pop charts: Mother-in-Law became the first hit by a New Orleans artist to rule black and white airwaves alike. Ernie K-Doe was only twenty-five years old, and his reign was just beginning. Born in New Orleans s Charity Hospital, K-Doe came of age in a still-segregated South. He built his musical chops singing gospel in More »