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Fred Carter, Jr. was an American guitarist, singer, producer and composer. Carter was raised in the delta country in Winnsboro, the seat of Franklin... Parish in northeastern Louisiana. Carter grew up with the heavy musical influences of jazz, country & western, hymns, and blues. Beginning his professional career in the 1950s, his first partner in music was another Franklin Parish native, Allen "Puddler" Harris. He subsequently worked with Dale Hawkins of "Suzie Q" song fame, and then joined Dale's cousin Ronnie Hawkins whose group The Hawks later became The Band. In the early 1960s, Carter settled into the Nashville session scene. He spent two years with Roy Orbison during his heyday and also toured with Conway Twitty. Carter was the principal guitarist for two of Joan Baez's albums in the late 1960s. He then worked on Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water. Carter provide numerous memorable guitar performances including "The Boxer" by Simon and Garfunkel, "I'm Just An Old Chunk Of Coal" by John Anderson, "I've Always Been Crazy" and "Whistlers and Jugglers" by Waylon Jennings.
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Louisiana ; Louisiana Creole: Léta de la Lwizyàn is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Louisiana is the 31st most extensive and the 25th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties. The largest parish by... population is East Baton Rouge Parish, and the largest by land area is Cameron Parish. Some Louisiana urban environments have a multicultural, multilingual heritage, being so strongly influenced by an admixture of 18th century French, Spanish, Native American and African cultures that they are considered to be somewhat exceptional in the U.S. Before the American influx and statehood at the beginning of the 19th century, the territory of current Louisiana State had been a Spanish and French colony.
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