Annie Pavageau

Marraige to a New Orleans jazz musician whose nickname was "Slow Drag" may have been enough to inspire Annie Pavageau to become a sacred singer; listeners interested in experiencing the results of this conversion don't have a whole lot to work with, only a scant five recordings by this singer and pianist made between 1961 and 1974. Her husband was Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau, a performer whose long career in the Big Easy included playing guitar in a band called The Undertakers as far back as 1915, eventually establishing a reputation as a marvelous dancer and finally evolving ...