Lou Ann Barton

R&B singer Lou Ann Barton was born in Fort Worth, TX, in 1954. She moved to Austin, TX, in the early 1970s and began getting gigs in the city's bars and music clubs. She performed with The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Roomful of Blues, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. She recorded her first album, "Old Enough", on Asylum in 1982, but even though it was produced by Jerry Wexler and Glenn Frey, it went nowhere. In 1986 she recorded the album "Read My Lips", featuring such guests as Jimmy Vaughan,Kim Wilson and David 'Fathead' Newman Jr.. In 1990 she released "Dreams Come True" on Antone's.