in the late 1960s, he recorded his own instrumentals, including "cat scream" and "monkey in a sack", for the la louisiane record label. later, in the 1980s and 1990s, he also toured internationally with buckwheat zydeco and with rockin' dopsie. he founded the cowboy stew blues revue with c. c. adcock. in 1999, he released the album "the buck starts here".