J.D. Miller

Producer and songwriter J.d. Miller was a pioneering force in the development and preservation of Louisiana music -- the founder of the state's first record label, Fais Do Do, he worked in a range of styles from Cajun to honky tonk to blues, but his legacy remains tarnished by the series of race-baiting records released via his openly segregationist Reb Rebel imprint. Born May 5, 1922, in Iota, LA, Miller spent his formative years in El Campo, TX, learning guitar from a Gene Autry songbook. According to John Broven's book South to Louisiana: The Music of the Cajun Bayous, in 1933 the family relocated to the Lake Charles area, and there the 11-year-old earned a weekly radio spot singing country music on local station KPLC after winning a talent contest.



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