Louisiana Dance Halls | Dance Halls Archive - Page 7 of 173 - Louisiana Dance Halls

Country music venue in Janesville that was run by Don Wiley and J.C. Henderson. Wiley’s band, Don Wiley and the Blue Grass Boys played there regularly and the venue featured many Grand Ole Opry stars. https://louisianafolklife.nsula.edu/artist-biographies/profiles/229 ...

Country music bar that was well known for violence http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/DeltaReflections-Nightclubs.html ...

Haney’s Big House was an African American rhythm and blues club, part of the famed “chitlin’ circuit”, and was located in the 500 block of 4th Street (now East Wallace Blvd.) in Ferriday. The venue started as a barbecue joint, then it expanded to have gambling and later music. Live music was featured on the weekend nights, when club would often accommodate three to four hundred people at once. The owner was Will Haney, a World War I veteran, who also sold insurance and had rental properties. Touring musicians who played there include Frank ‘Cole Slaw’ Cully, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Little Milton, Roy Brown, Solomon Burke, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner, Johnnie Taylor and Irma Thomas. Jerry Lee Lewis snuck in to see bands as a youth, hiding under tables there, and he credits Haney’s as the place that he first saw people play rock and roll. Haney’s was opened in the late 1940s and was popular until it burned in a fire that consumed most of the block in 1966. Photo credits: Mississippi to Louisiana http://www.hannapub.com/concordiasentinel/frank_morris_murder/cold-case-haney-s-big-house-a-legendary-place-down/article_6ec4021e-41a4-11e3-bbc3-0019bb30f31a.html http://www.hannapub.com/concordiasentinel/frank_morris_murder/cold-case-half-century-old-photos-show-capture-will-haney/article_30a26682-48b7-11e3-a4dc-0019bb30f31a.html#user-comment-area ...