Four Corners Bar
Parish: Cameron
Location: Holly Beach
Photo courtesy of Robert “Robbeaux” Herbert
LouisianaDancehalls.com reader comment by Robert “Robbeaux” Herbert: “Growing up in Abbeville, La. many people in the area had camps you could rent, and you could go down to the Cajun Riviera and let your hair down. Sometimes it was not all play, as we would go there and pull a seine hoping for a load of speckled trout, often ending up with a bunch of croakers and gafftops. Well one night I snuck off to the Four Corners when everybody was sleeping ( i was about 12 years old) and would go check out who was playing. It was a rock band called ‘Nickelodeon’ and as i remember, were pretty good. I was getting into guitar at that time, and my future bandmates all thought of playing the Four Corners as achieving Rock Star status…My friend Bobby Charles lived there and one of his sons had acquired the lease on the club, ‘Wanna play the Club?’ he says, and we booked it in September 2005, one week before Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown was to appear. We went as ‘Willie Purple’: Chuck Leger on Guitar, Kevin Weekly Bass, Gary LeBlanc (R.I.P.) on Drums, and myself on Lead vocals and Harmonica. Even Miss Cameron 1955 was in there too, kicking up some cornmeal on the dancefloor. Had a blast, packed house, only one fight, made some money. Unfortunately, we were the last band to play the Four Corners Bar, as the following week a Hurricane named Rita changed all that.”
