“I’m the last of the red hot rockers,” exclaims Jay Chevalier, paraphrasing the handle that was memorably tagged on his old employer, former Louisiana Governor Earl K. Long, who was known as “The Last of the Red Hot Poppas.” Raised in the piney woods near Lecompte, Louisiana, Chevalier began playing country music before joining the Marine Corps in 1954. While stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, he met Gene Vincent and went to see Elvis Presley and his fate was cast. “At that time the remnants of ...