His resume is quite impressive.īillington wrote in his story, “Beau Jocque: The Funkiest Band in the Land,” that he first heard Beau Jocque in 1992 at the Quarterback Lounge in a rundown neighborhood of Lafayette. Now he is also on the faculty of Loyola Univeristy in the Film and Music Industry Studies department. Billington worked with Beau Jocque on his recordings with Rounder Records.
And as a harmonica player, Billington recorded with Boozoo Chavis, Sleepy LaBeef, and Irma Thomas, and toured with Nathan Williams and the Zydeco Cha Chas. As a graphic designer and art director, Billington created hundreds of album covers for Rounder and other labels. In 1981, Billington’s production work of bluesman Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown won Rounder its first Grammy award, and with later Rounder projects he ‘rounded up’ another Grammy award and eleven nominations. Billington worked with a variety of artists in the blues, Cajun, jazz and zydeco genres. Scott Billington joined Rounder Records in the 1970s and learned the ropes of the record label business working the sales, promotion and art departments. IMAGE USED WITH PERMISSION OF PHOTOGRAPHER RICK OLIVIER GIANT Beau Jocque An abridged version of the Beau Jocque story in Update! #95
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