To showcase their musical culture, the City of New Orleans put on The International Jazzfest in 1968 & 1969, before George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, re-tooled into The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1970 — which has continued for over fifty years.

Ed King co-wrote the hit “Incense and Peppermints” for psyche rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock in 1967, and later co-wrote “Sweet Home Alabama” as the guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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