Fans know the late D.L. Menard, who died early Thursday at age 85 after a long illness, for The Back Door, a 55-year-old, million-selling Cajun two-step song that still fills dance floors on its ...

NEW ORLEANS — D.L. Menard, the Cajun musician whose song “The Back Door” became an anthem for his culture and carried him to 38 countries on State Department tours, has died at the age of 85. Mr.

The “Cajun Hank Williams” better known as D.L. Menard died at the age of 85. No matter where you at there you are, if I can’t leave I can’t come back, and what’s down can’t fall— are just some of the ...

Louisiana musician D.L. Menard, a Grammy-nominated entertainer known to many as the “Cajun Hank Williams,” He was also the writer and original performer of the 1962 hit, “La Porte En Arrière” (“The ...

Today a local Cajun music legend was laid to rest. D.L. Menard’s service was held today at family life church in Lafayette. D.L. Menard set the standard for Cajun music with his hit “the back door”.

D. L. Menard, the never-shy Cajun singer and songwriter, has a bone to pick with Rolling Stone. The magazine has picked Menard’s anthem, “The Back Door (La Porte en Arrière),” as one of its 100 ...

D.L. Menard, whose song "The Back Door" is among the most popular in Cajun music, is dead at the age of 85. Louisiana Funeral Services and Crematory in Broussard said on its website that Menard died ...

Two months ago DL Menard celebrated the 55th anniversary of his most famous song. La Porte d’en Arrière (The Back Door), which has surpassed the popularity of Jolie Blon and been described as “the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - D.L. Menard, the Cajun musician whose song "The Back Door" became an anthem for his culture and carried him to 38 countries on State Department tours, has died at the age of 85.