Huey Meaux

Huey Purvis Meaux (born March 10, 1929 in Wright , Louisiana , † April 23, 2011 in Winnie , Chambers County , Texas ) was an American music producer .

Huey Meaux, who called himself "Crazy Cajun", was best known as the discoverer of Doug Sahm and Barbara Lynn . He grew up in Kaplan, Louisiana ; after his discharge from the US Army and a brief training as a hairdresser, he opened a shop in Winnie, Texas. He also worked as a radio disc jockey, through which he came into contact with the local music business and was able to gain initial experience as a producer. He had his breakthrough in 1962 with the production You'll Lose a Good Thing by Barbara Lynn. In 1963 he produced Talk to Me for the Tex-Mex band Sunny and the Sunliners . On his labels Teardrop and Copyright he published a. a. Recorded singer Rod Bernard and recorded with Arthur Lee Maye . In 1965, given the British beat boom, he helped found a rock band around the singer-songwriter Doug Sahm, the Sir Douglas Quintet , whose biggest hit was She's About a Mover . Meaux also produced BJ Thomas ' first chart hit , Hank Williams' I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry . From the mid-1970s he produced the Tex-Mex musician Freddy Fender , who was successful in the charts with the songs Before the Next Teardrop Falls and Wasted Days and Wasted Nights .

In the late 1970s, Meaux's success waned. In 1996, police officers raided his SugarHill Houston studio and confiscated hundreds of tapes and photos showing Meaux having sex with minors. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, he last lived in Wininie, Texas.

Web links / sources

• obituary
• Obituary in Chicago Sun-Times
• A Guide to the Huey Meaux Papers, 1940-1994