Shannon McNally met Bobby Charles in 2002. Charles, the late, reclusive singer-songwriter from Abbeville, wrote Bill Haley’s 1956 hit, “See You Later, Alligator,” Fats Domino’s 1960 classic, “Walking ...

Thinking about a Bobby Charles album the way we normally think of albums probably isn’t fair. It’s hard to believe he took much care with programming Timeless, and the album features six (that I’m ...

Recorded over five years ago, Shannon McNally’s new gem of an album, “Small Town Talk: The Songs of Bobby Charles,” was finally released last week. On Saturday, the under-the-radar singer-songwriter ...

Revisiting an archival interview with the late Louisiana songwriter. Bobby Charles On World Cafe As a teenager in Abbeville, La., Robert Charles Guidry — better known as Bobby Charles — wrote songs ...

Musical archeology rewards. Look hard enough and you could discover each day until you die a mind-blowing record from any era of recorded music. This 1972 self-titled Bobby Charles album is one of ...

Shannon McNally is in the midst of a labor of love. The Mississippi-based singer-songwriter just released "Small Town Talk," an album she's now touring that was five years in the making. But she ...

Singer-songwriter Bobby Charles, who authored hits like Fats Domino’s “Walking to New Orleans” and Bill Haley & the Comets’ “See You Later Alligator” and recorded highly personalized swamp-pop in his ...