Louise Dupont, b. November 13, 1913 in New Orleans, LA, d. May 7, 1998 in New Orleans, LA. Barker began her career as a dancer and singer in New Orleans but did not record until 1938 after her move to New York. She is almost certainly the ‘Lu Blue’ who recorded with Erskine Hawkins in July of that year. Under her own name she continued to record for Decca Records until 1939. She enjoyed a second period of recording activity between 1947 and 1949, with her work appearing mainly on Apollo and Capitol Records. A band singer of note, she has been cited as an influence on Billie Holiday and Eartha Kitt. Barker’s blues were often slyly humorous and marked by a wonderful sense of timing, demonstrated on her most famous hit, 1938’s ‘Don’t You Feel My Leg’. Married to New Orleans jazz guitarist Danny Barker, she usually worked in his company as well as with many of the great names in jazz. She was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall Of Fame in 1997.