Sugarbowl

Status: Closed

Parish: Lafourche

Location: Thibodaux

Carol Fran and husband/saxophonist Joe Francois performed R&B there in the mid-1950s: part of the Louisiana “crawfish circuit.” In her autobiography, “Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story,” James mentions that she and her band lived above the club while on a tour of the South in the 1950s.