Louie Fontaine & The Starlight Searchers

New Orleans has always attracted interesting artists, adventurers, entrepeneurs and musicians, from Lafitte the Pirate to Edgar Degas to Tennessee Williams to Emeril Lagasse. Louie Fontaine is a little bit of all of them, a Danish rock 'n' roll star who lived in New Orleans from 2000-2002 and returned to the city a couple of years ago. Since he's been back he's recorded a new album, The Sun Ain't Black, and bought a club near the Superdome called Handsome Willy's now renamed Fontaine Palace which will be the base for his band and his phenomenal 1000 pound creation The Beat Machine.