2 Your Town Zachary: Teddy’s Juke Joint celebrates local history, music, tradition

ZACHARY— If you are looking for a place to hang out at night and listen to rhythm and blues, Teddy’s Juke Joint has been the place for almost 50 years.

Lloyd “Teddy” Johnson Jr. turned his childhood home into a juke joint, a club that hosts rhythm and blues musicians every night, continuing a tradition that dates back more than a century to the birth of blues in the deep south that was most recently highlighted in the Louisiana-shot film “Sinners.”

Johnson’s joint off Old Scenic Highway has been in business for more than 46 years…

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