A song loved by generations throughout the world, “You Are My Sunshine” has special resonance in Louisiana. Statewide affection for the love song-lament largely goes to the late Louisiana Gov.

Author Robert Mann was excited to be in Alexandria. That’s because it was on these streets the singing governor, the late Gov. Jimmie Davis, first publicly strummed his guitar and sang to make ...

Mann weaves together the birth of country music, Louisiana political history, World War II and the American civil rights movement in his latest book.