Keith Blair is everywhere! Facebook, Blue Moon, Grant Street. Artmosphere. The parking lot. Home Depot. St. John’s Cathedral. A Porto-Jon. Kart Ranch. Omnipresent. There’s nothing else to be said....other than the fact that his smoking, blues-saturated, gun-slinging guitar playing has been gracing Lafayette clubs for over a decade. He’s got the arch twang and molecular heat of the devil in his bones. Keith Blair lights it on fire at the Blue Moon on July 29. Give the dude a break; he's only got 1,702 friends on his Facebook page, he's lonely - go see him LIVE.
Life story of Keith Blair in 7 words...more or less. Music, Love, Friend, Hard, Wonderful, inspiring, Surprising
Best gig ever? Slims in San Francisco, met and hung out with Huey Lewis and Bonnie Raitt.
Most underrated guitar player ever? Prince
If you were to choose an alternate trade, what would it be? Graphic designer or super hero, either one of those.
Name one thing nobody knows about Keith Blair? I’m scared to death of snakes
It’s a Saturday night in Lafayette and you’re playing. How do you get into the Keith Blair persona? Heineken helps before a gig. I never really get nervous before shows. I usually just walk up and play.
What is the most important thing you’ve learned about the music industry? Stay true to what you feel and don’t take it too seriously. What is one thing you never do in Texas while wearing a dress? Cross the border into Mexico.
How resistant is the average person to Keith Blair hypnosis? Well everyone knows I’m full of sh*t so I’d say pretty resistant.
Jim Morrison claimed to have the spirit of an Indian Shaman living inside his “fragile, eggshell mind.” What lives inside of Keith Blair? Rice & Gravy.
Do you ever experience “missing time” - a trait common among UFO abductees? No, but I did miss a flight in Las Vegas once and that wasn’t cool.
If Keith Blair were forced to invent his own style of martial arts, what would it be called? Since Cobra Kai is taken, so I’d call it “Rock’em Sockarate”.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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