Born: October 23, 1930 Lake Charles, Louisiana

Died: May 5, 2001 Austin, Texas

Boozoo Chavis cut the first zydeco single in 1954 under the direction of Eddie Shuler. Then he disappeared from the music scene, devoting his time to raising quarter horses.

Like a once thought to be extinct prehistoric fish pulled up from the depths of the ocean, Boozoo Chavis’ reappearance on the zydeco scene in the early 1980s was in music circles considered m...