Deacon John Moore September 29, 2012

Deacon has been active on the New Orleans R&B scene since his teens. He was a session man on many hit recordings of the late 1950s and the 1960s, including those by Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Lee Dorsey, and Ernie K-Doe,. His band, the Ivories, continues to attract an enthusiastic local following. In 2000 Moore was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall of Fame. He is featured in the documentary film Going Back to New Orleans: The Deacon John Film and the concert DVD, "Deacon John's Jump Blues.