The people of Japan love New Orleans music and musicians, especially songwriter and performer Huey “Piano” Smith. John Wirt’s extensive biography of Smith certainly gives him his due. Wirt starts from ...

Huey “Piano” Smith, whose two-fisted keyboard style and rambunctious songs propelled the sound of New Orleans R&B into the pop Top 10 in the late 1950s, died Feb. 13 at his home in Baton Rouge, ...

Simply put, Huey “Piano” Smith is one of the great heroes of New Orleans and American music. As that generation ages and goes on to greener pastures, it’s important and necessary to acknowledge and ...

Fusing infectious grooves with comic lyrics, Huey “Piano” Smith created late 1950s rock ’n’ roll classics with New Orleans flair. The songwriter-pianist’s national hits “Rocking Pneumonia and the ...

Huey “Piano” Smith, a New Orleans boogie-woogie pianist who wrote and recorded the 1950s rock-and-roll standards “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise” and who influenced many ...

Huey 'Piano' Smith received the Big Easy Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. File photo -- Huey "Piano" Smith Photo courtesy of the Tad Jones Collection, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane ...