When her health began declining in the late nineteen-eighties, longtime musician Lou Gabus realized that performing was no longer an option. Encouraged by friend, Merle Haggard, Gabus embarked on a project that many Louisiana musicians felt was long overdue, the creation of a Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

The institution now serves as the one true guardian of the chronicles of Louisiana's great men and women in the music and entertainment industry. "I was just playing it by ear. I really d...