Louis Hobbs

Missouri's Lou Hobbs (1941-2007) was an early, first-generation rockabilly artist who played in Narvel Felts' band and wrote several songs with Felts, back in the day. Like many of his peers, Hobbs "went country" later in life, and placed a couple of songs in the Billboard charts in the early '80s. In addition to at least two LPs, Hobbs released a handful of singles under his own name back in the early Sixties, and in the early 'Seventies, Felts -- now a notable country star -- produced Hobbs on his own label, Cinnamon Records, before Cinnamon felt apart in '75. Hobbs came from the Mississippi River town of Cape Girardeau, in southeastern Missouri, about forty miles away from where Narvel Felts grew up.