Author: tedorn44tedorn44 Date: Dec 28, 2006 05:09
Barb Dwyer wrote:
> Johnny Rebel Speaks
>
> In the 1950s, C.J. Trahan was a young Cajun with a guitar. Now, in the
> world of hatecore and white power music, he's a living legend.
>
> By Nick Pittman
>
> C.J. Trahan says there's nothing to his story. He just recorded some
> songs, made some money and went on to other things.
>
> Seeing him on the street in Crowley, 65-year-old Trahan doesn't appear
> out of the ordinary: short, balding, dressed in jeans and a
> short-sleeve, button-down shirt. He launched his career in music like
> many others do: starting as a young Cajun man with a guitar, singing
> covers of tunes such as Rocket Morgan's "Tag Along." After a
> less-than-successful trip to Nashville, he returned home to Louisiana.
>
> Then, in the late 1960s, Trahan began to record and release music for
> the late Jay "J.D." Miller's Reb Rebel Records in Crowley. Trahan was ...
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