J. D. "Jay" Miller Paperback

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joseph Denton "Jay" Miller (May 5, 1922 - March 23, 1996) was an American record producer, musician and songwriter from Crowley, Louisiana whose Cajun, swamp blues, and swamp pop recordings made an impact on American popular culture. Miller was born in Iota, Louisiana, but spent many childhood years in El Campo, Texas. However, he resided most of his life in Crowley, where in the late 1930s he played guitar with several Cajun bands, including Joseph Falcon and His Silver Bell Band, the Four Aces, the Rice City Ramblers, and the Daylight Creepers. In the mid-1940s he began to record Cajun musicians, most notably the string band, Happy, Doc, and the Boys. In the 1950s he began to record swamp pop artists, including King Karl, Guitar Gable, Warren Storm, Rod Bernard, and Johnnie Allan, among others.