Mayes, Pete
(*1938)
Mayes, Pete 1938; TX Pete Mayes grew up in the all-black community of Double Bayou, a tiny hamlet of independent sharecroppers on the border between Texas and Louisiana. Though isolated, the town had a dance hall owned by Mayes’s uncle, Manuel Rivers, that was the hub of social activity on weekends. Little more than an oversized corral with a tin roof, the dance hall nonetheless attracted some of the biggest names in blues including Big Joe Turner and Gatemouth Brown. Mayes was allowed to…