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349 Contributors David Anderson trained as a historian at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill and currently serves as assistant professor of history at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. His primary interests are United States labor history and working-class culture in the American South. His articles and book reviews have appeared in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Southern Quarterly, Missouri Historical Review, and elsewhere. Monty Brown (not the professional football player and wrestler of the same name) has lived in the Ark-La-Tex much of his adult life. In addition to writing about local vernacular music, Brown has broadcast a program about Louisiana music over Shreveport’s KDAQFM (Red River Public Radio). Brown also writes short fiction and drama, and, with his wife Marsha Brown, writes music and makes documentary travel films. Eleanor Ellis is a guitar player and vocalist who performs blues, mostly from the Piedmont of Virginia and the Carolinas. In addition to playing music, she also produced Blues House Party, a documentary film about Piedmont blues that featured John Jackson, John Cephas, John D. Holeman, and members of their extended families. Ellis currently lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, and often plays at clubs and concerts in and around Washington, D.C. Kevin Fontenot is finishing his Ph.D. in history from Tulane University, writing about the musical and political life of Jimmie Davis. He teaches at Tulane University and the University of Louisiana–Lafayette. The author of articles and reviews in the Country Music Annual, the Jazz Archivist, the Journal of Southern History, and elsewhere, he was also a consultant and commentator for Making Waves, a documentary about the history of radio in Louisiana. He is the co-editor, with Ryan Brasseaux, of Accordions, Fiddles, Two-Steps, and Swing: A Cajun Music Reader (). Dan Garner is a Shreveport native, local music researcher, and documenter, best known as a musician who has played at dozens of blues festivals as well as practically every stage in the Shreveport music scene, from clubs to casinos. For thirteen years he apprenticed with the late legendary prewar bluesman, Jesse Thomas, recording and performing with him until Thomas’s death in . Through his Blue Goose Blues Records, Dan has produced seven releases, which span the genres of acoustic blues, rockabilly, and gospel. Currently Garner works for the Tipitina’s Foundation of New Orleans and performs with Cookie and the Kingcakes. CONTRIBUTORS 350 Lillian Jones Hall chronicled the early history of radio station KWKH in her communications dissertation, which she completed in  at Louisiana State University. She is professor emeritus at Louisiana State University in Shreveport, having taught there from  until her retirement. Tracey E. W. Laird trained in ethnomusicology and musicology at the University of Michigan. She is currently an associate professor of music at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and the author of Louisiana Hayride: Radio and Roots Music Along the Red River (). Her current research focuses on the musical and cultural significance of the longrunning PBS live music showcase Austin City Limits. Don Logan worked for decades in music as a performer, promoter, disc jockey, and record company executive. He is probably best known in the Ark-La-Tex as “Dandy Don,” a wellknown DJ on Shreveport station KEEL. Logan now resides in Benton, Louisiana (less than a dozen miles north of downtown Shreveport). He is semi-retired, though still involved in music. Kip Lornell teaches in the music department at The George Washington University. Trained as an ethnomusicologist at the University of Memphis, he has written nine previous books, including The Life and Legend of Leadbelly (), co-authored with the late Charles Wolfe and winner of the  ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. In addition, he has published over a hundred articles and record notes documenting American vernacular music, as well as numerous record projects and documentary films. J. Michael Luster has been a tireless force in the documentation and celebration of music and culture of the Ark-La-Tex since the early s. Trained as a folklorist at the University of Pennsylvania, he was director of the Louisiana Folklife Festival for ten years (–), based in Monroe, Louisiana. During that period, he broadcast weekly on two programs over Monroe public radio station KEDM, and taught at the University of New Orleans in . He is a frequent participant in panels, workshops, and festivals throughout the country and has worked with the Smithsonian’s Festival of American Folklife, the Olympics, the National Folk Festival, the...

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