King Louie Bankston

A mainstay of the Southern rock & roll underground, King Louie Bankston was a wildly prolific singer, instrumentalist, and songwriter who embraced the passionate primitivism of punk rock and the roots music traditions of Memphis, Tennessee and New Orleans, Louisiana, two of the cities he called home. Bankston recorded extensively on his own but was also a respected sideman who worked with garage rockers the Royal Pendletons, raw Southern punks the Bad Times, old-school melodic punk revivalists the Exploding Hearts and their offshoot project Terry & Louie, and many more. As a b...