LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) Music artists from here in Acadiana all the way to their brothers and sisters in Europe are mourning the loss of a Louisiana music legend. She’s known as the lady who sang the ...

It was 1957 and on her debut single, Carol Fran asks the title character of her bluesy/swamp pop song, Emmitt Lee, “Don’t you remember me?” Well, he didn’t. And it would be his loss as Fran went on ...

In 2008, anthropologist Becky Schexnayder was inspired to interview Lafayette swamp blues musician Carol Fran. Twelve years later, the two women have built a close friendship and Schexnayder is ...