Gene King

Gene King started out in his hometown of Turkey Creek and played with Michael Landon and with Hee Haw stars George "Goober" Lindsey and the Hagar Brothers. He also worked the set of the Louisiana Hayride television show in Shreveport. In the early 1970s the Grammy-winning singer Jody Miller hired him after they shared bills with Roy Clark in Shreveport and Baton Rouge, and he stayed on as her bandleader and lead guitarist until the late 1980s. His marker, unveiled on May 6, 2022, was only the second on the Northeast Louisiana Music Trail.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bruin State Park — 27 mi
  A state park on a Mississippi River oxbow near St. Joseph, named for a territorial judge who owned a plantation beside it, on a former fish hatchery site.
• Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge — 28 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

• Bayou Macon Settlements — 3.4 mi
• Lt. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault — 4.9 mi
• Al "Puddler" Harris — 6.6 mi
• Richard Berry, Jr. — 8.8 mi