Lou Hobbs

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Louis "Lou" Boyd Hobbs (* 11. October 1941 in Cape Girardeau , Missouri ; † 20th September 2007 ) was an American rockabilly - singer , guitarist , music producer and television host . Hobbs was the founder of the Lou Hobbs Show .

biography

Lou Hobbs started his musical career at the age of six. he sang the songs of Hank Williams and Little Jimmy Dickens at events, in clubs and everywhere you wanted to hear him.

As a teenager, he taught himself to play the guitar and followed in the footsteps of his also musical mother Ruby Hobbs. At the end of the 1950s he met the musician Narvel Felts in Southeast Missouri , who was touring the country and making a new style of music public: rockabilly. One made friends. A year later, Lou Hobbs separated from Narvel Felts, founded his own band and played his own rockabilly from then on. He was nicknamed "The Laughing Teenager".

Several singles hit the US country charts in the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1986 he started his own show, the Lou Hobbs Show , broadcast on KFVS12, which featured country greats such as Johnny Cash , Kris Kristofferson , Rockin 'Roary , George Jones and Randy Travis . The show was very popular, and Lou Hobbs' face became very popular in the United States.

Lou Hobbs from the broadcaster KFVS12 had a free hand in programming and running. In 1988 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease . Lou Hobbs continued to work even though the illness began to take over his body. "He never gives up," said KFVS12 boss Paul Keener. The Lou Hobbs Show ran until 2005.

In 1990 he achieved worldwide attention with the title he wrote and sung, Living on the New Madrid Fault Line , a title about the devastating New Madrid earthquake of 1811 . This title received radio air plays in 90 countries.

Lou Hobbs remained humble and generous despite his successes. Every year at Christmas he anonymously donated Christmas dinner and presents to a poor family.

Lou Hobbs died on September 20, 2007 at the age of 65 in Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau of complications from Parkinson's disease. His grave is in the Old Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau.

Discography (selection)

  • Mama, Mama, Mama - Single (as "Louis Hobbs")
  • Corpus Christi´s Calling Me - single
  • Living on the New Madrid Fault Line
  • Back To Missouri - single
  • Without your Love - single
  • Main Street USA - single
  • My Sweet Nancy - single
  • Ballad of Narvel felts - single
  • Mama, Mama, Mama - LP
  • My Songs - CD album
  • Heroes - CD album (with Animals , Rockin 'Roary , and Wired West)
  • Rockabilly Then & Now - CD
  • Living on the New Madrid Fault Line - CD EP

Awards

  • Member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame

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personal data
SURNAME Hobbs, Lou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hobbs, Louis Boyd (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rockabilly singer, record producer, guitarist and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Girardeau , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 2007
Place of death Cape Girardeau , Missouri