Al "Puddler" Harris

Al Harris learned piano in his grandfather's Jigger general store, which drew local musicians and also sold pianos, and in high school he played in a band with Fred Carter Jr. After the Marines he became staff pianist on the Louisiana Hayride, following Floyd Cramer. He and Carter then went to Hollywood with Joe Osborne and James Burton, where Harris, Osborne and Burton became Ricky Nelson's backup band. In Nashville his boogie-woogie style kept him busy on sessions, and he toured with Governor Jimmie Davis.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 29 mi
  Nearly 80,000 acres of bottomland hardwood forest and oxbow lakes, with the state's largest population of Louisiana black bears and Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 hunt nearby.

More markers nearby

• Boeuf Prairie Methodist Church — 4.9 mi
• Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault — 5.2 mi
• Bayou Macon Settlements — 6.4 mi
• Richard Berry, Jr. — 6.5 mi