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Fest Focus: Wayne Toups

May 1, 1997 by: David Jones

The story goes that in 1992, a teenage girl was in a terrible car crash on Halloween night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The accident left the young woman in a coma; and nothing that the doctors could do seemed to be helping.

Finally, feeling helpless and running out of options, her parents placed a pair of headphones on her. The music that they played was "Johnny Can't Dance" by her favorite musician, Wayne Toups. Miraculously they watched as their unconscious daughter started tapping her fe...

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