Sunday, April 24, 2011

Huey P. Meaux, R. I. P.

29-95.com: "Legendary and notorious music producer Huey P. Meaux, “the Crazy Cajun,” died this morning at age 82, according to his nephew Larry Meaux Jr., after several months of poor health.

Meaux was created his own music industry in Houston by producing a mountain of hit singles between the late ‘50s and early ‘70s. He helped launch Doug Sahm’s career, and he resurrected Freddy Fender’s. There also existed a dark side to the larger-than-life character. In the 1990s a raid on the SugarHill Recording Studio where he kept an office turned up evidence that would result in his conviction for sex crimes."

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