New Orleans-born singer/songwriter and rockabilly legend Jim Oertling passed away in his home on July 10, 2020.
His family moved to San Antonio, where Oertling graduated from high school in 1960 and later attended Louisiana State University, graduating in 1965. As a student at LSU, Oertling formed a band, Jim Oertling and the Bayou Boys, and entered Cosimo Matassa's studio in 1963 to cut the epic rockabilly single "Old Moss Back," using his Elvis-...