My New Orleans
This article originally published as Laborde’s editor’s note in the January/February 2021 issue of Louisiana Life Magazine
Let us pause a moment to consider midnight trains:
Winston Hall is a Shreveport musician, song writer and music history buff. His town was once the home of the “Louisiana Hayride,” a Grand Ole Opry-type radio concert that helped grease many careers including that of Elvis and Hank Williams.
Williams lived in the Shreveport area for a while around 1948. His first house just so happened to be down the road a piece from where Hall would one day live. It is relevant to this story that a railroad track was across the street from the house.