Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters

New Orleans R&B outfit Sugar Boy and His Cane Cutters emerged in 1953 from the remnants of the Sha-Weez, formed three years earlier on the campus of the Crescent City's Booker T. Washington High School. According to Marv Goldberg's profile in the September 1977 issue of Yesterday's Memories, the Sha-Weez were led by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford on piano and vocals and Edgar "Big Boy" Myles on ...more