Louisiana's Leroux

Always with an eye on the future, Louisiana's LeRoux received a Grammy nomination in January, 2007, for its work on Tab Benoit's Brother to the Blues album. Tab's follow-up album, Power of the Pontchartrain, also with members of LeRoux, has been in the top 5 on Billboard's Blues chart for over 15 weeks. Recent events include recording a live double album and DVD in Nashville with Tab Benoit, Jimmy Hall, Kim Wilson, and others. Members of LeRoux continue to headline concerts, and were on tour in 2008 with Tab Benoit throughout the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. In 2009 LeRoux is beginning a new project with Steve Cropper (Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the MG's), Jimmy Hall (Wet Willie), and Big Luther Kent (Louisiana legend and singer with Blood, Sweat & Tears), starting with the Spanish Town Mardi Gras Ball in Baton Rouge and continuing with future performances in the planning stages. Their 1978 Capitol press release read: "LeRoux takes its name from the Cajun French term for the thick and hearty gravy base that's used to make a gumbo." Louisiana's LeRoux (the first album) was a musical gumbo that blended various instruments and arrangements for some spicy, mouth-watering pop-rock. Using blues, R&B, funk, jazz, rock, and Cajun as their base, their Southern anthem "New Orleans Ladies," voted Song of the Century by Gambit Magazine, simmered with the laid-back feel of the "Big Easy," evoking images of Bourbon Street and the bayou. That song, together with their smash hit "Nobody Said It Was Easy," brings LeRoux daily airplay from Washington, DC to Baton Rouge, and they remain cult heroes to this day.