Louisiana Red is the subject for Two For the Blues Saturday night, May 2 from 8-10 PM Central time. Louisiana Red was born Iverson Minter in 1932. He recorded more than 50 albums over his career. He had a very difficult childhood with his mother dying from pneumonia shortly after he was born and his father hung by the Ku Klux Klan when he was 5 years old. He was raised by a series of relatives. He joined the Army, became a parachutist and served in the Korean War. After the war he recorded as Rocky Fuller for the Checker label in 1952. His first album Lowdown Backporch Blues was released by Roulette in 1963. He moved to Hanover, Germany in 1981 and was largely forgotten by American blues fans though he did tour the U.S. on occasion. I was fortunate to see him twice, at Folklore Village in September 2004 and the Chicago Blues Festival in 2006. Louisiana Red was one of only a very few blues artists who sounded like he was having a conversation with his guitar in performance to my ear. The interview and original broadcast of this show was prior to his Folklore Village performance. Red died in 2012. (Photo by Till Niermann (User:Till.niermann) – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2473946) 
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