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.

ZZ Top was once sued by the co-songwriter of John Lee Hooker’s famous “Boogie Chillun” (much to Hooker’s dismay), who claimed “La Grange” sounded too similar. The courts disagreed.

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