Lil Buck Sinegal: 'With the Blues, You Can Express Yourself'

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries

Published April 10, 2014 at 4:41 PM CDT

Lil Buck Sinegal, a Louisiana Music Hall of Famer, started playing as a kid in Lafayette on a Harmony box guitar before his father, a cement finisher, bought him an electric guitar -- paid for in installments of $10 a week.

Buck played in zydeco legend Clifton Chenier's band for 17 years, and he says it was Chenier who taught him the blues.

Lil Buck Sinegal plays on the Swamp Blues Stage at 12:45 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Blues Festival in downtown Baton Rouge. He talks with WRKF's Amy Jeffries, Back Stage at Blues Fest, at 2:30 p.m.

A full line-up and more details on the Baton Rouge Blues Festival are at www.batonrougebluesfestival.org.

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Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

Lil Buck Sinegal: 'With the Blues, You Can Express Yourself'

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