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Artist
Chris Belleau
9+ albums
blueslouisiana bluesbluesrockAllContemporary Blues
about
West of New Orleans, east of Lafayette and south of Shreveport lies Baton Rouge, a city that thinks it’s still a small town on the Mississippi river. Home of the swamp blues sound, his home town. Music has always tugged at his soul,he remembered hearing brass bands as a child. Jazz bands that blew funky blues on the street. He always loved the sound of the accordian…cajun accordian, what a sound! Rock and roll, jazz, blues and country; it’s all served up on the same plate down here in Louisiana. He started playing music as a child, He chose the trombone, or maybe it chose me. He picked up other instruments later as a teenager including the guitar, harmonica, piano and accordian. Somewhere along the way music swept me away like a flood;he still trying to keep my head above the water. In his early college years he studied trombone with great teachers like Larry Campbell, Alvin Battiste, Rick Stepton and John Laporta. HeI played in bars, bookstores, night clubs and restuarants to make ends meet. In 1982 he moved to Shreveport where I met lots of great musicians including Toby Cooper, Jerry Beach, Bill Causey, Jimmy Honeycut, Bill Bush, David Egan, Bruce and Buddy Flett, Jeff Spence, Brian and Brady Blade and many others. Sometime around 1984, he was working 3-4 nights a week in Shreveport with the Stage 618 Rhythm and Blues band led by Jerry Beach who wrote the Albert King hit “I’ll Play the Blues for You.” I met Chuck Rainey around that time while he auditioned for a job
