Baton Rouge Blues - Out to Lunch - It's Baton Rouge

When it comes to the Blues, Baton Rouge is one of the best known
cities on the map. Some will even tell you the Blues were born
right here in the Red Stick on the banks of the Mississippi,
despite what those in the Mississippi Delta or Memphis might say.
For more than four decades Stephanie s guest on Out to Lunch,
Johnny Pallazotto has been a tireless promoter, producer, manager
and advocate of the Baton Rouge blues scene. He has helped to shape
the careers of dozens of artist, auditioned and signed new writers,
filed copyrights, negotiated contracts for recording artists,
produced and distributed albums, and produced concerts from Los
Angeles to Louisiana. Johnny is co founder of Baton Rouge Blues
Foundation, produces the Slim Harpo Music Awards and works with a
program to help public school student learn about Louisiana s music
roots. One of the shortcomings Johnny and other industry veterans
will tell you about the local music scene is the lack of
infrastructure to help develop homegrown talent. We ve got plenty
of good musicians here in Baton Rouge but historically have sent
them off to Los Angeles or Nashvile to grow their careers. Trey
Maughan is trying to change that. Trey has opened a music studio of
his own Base Camp Studios where he is recording music and other
broadcast productions of Baton Rouge artists, specializing in
hiphop, from wannabes to bona fide stars like Mystikal. Garrett
Kessling is Stephanie s Entrepreneur du Jour on today s show.
Garrett is a member of the LUS Tiger Marching Band and has created
a company, Tonal Innovation, whose first product is a innovation
for marching bands called the E Flip. The E Flip is a mount that
attaches to an instrument and allows you to secure your smart phone
or tablet to the instrument and use it to view sheet music or
marching drill. The E Flip is in its early stages being shepherded
through the Louisiana Technology Center. The final design is
completed, a patent is pending and Garrett is working on mass
manufacturing. Photos on this page taken by Ken Stewart at Mansur s
on the Boulevard.

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