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John Simoneaux
John Simoneaux (April 24, 1967 – January 17, 2000), Simoneaux became well known in Ruston, Louisiana, playing in the bands Blue Monday and Howard Shaft Horns, and hosting the "Tuesday Night Blues Jam" at the Sundown Tavern in Ruston with his friends backing him as the house band. Simoneaux played throughout Louisiana, toured nationally with Doug Duffey in 1998, and in 1999, performed in Switzerland and other European countries before dying in a car accident while traveling to Austin, Texas, Austin, Texas for a gig with The Roadhouse Disciples. Simoneaux's only publicly-released music is an early studio effort with Howard Shaft on ''Blue Monday and the Howard Shaft Horns'' and was released to fans in limited quantities. His second CD was with Christopher Ames, aka "Chris Rhoads". William "Skippy" Clarke, one of John's friends/fans, was booking agent for both Chris Rhoads and Blue Monday and the Howard Shaft Horns. John, Ryan Munsey, Skippy, and Shawn Smith went to Texas to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties in other U.S. states. Since 2020, it has been the 99th-most-populous city in the United States and the second-largest city in Louisiana, after New Orleans; Baton Rouge is the 18th-most-populous state capital. According to the 2020 United States census, the city-proper had a population of 227,470; its consolidated population was 456,781 in 2020. The city is the center of the Greater Baton Rouge area—Louisiana's second-largest metropolitan area—with a population of 870,569 as of 2020, up from 802,484 in 2010. The Baton Rouge area owes its historical importance to its strategic site upon the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed development of a business qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
