1967 LOOKIN' FOR A HANDOUT Johnny Rebel on Reb Rebel

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Johnny Rebel is the pseudonym of Cajun country musician Clifford Joseph Trahan (born October 3, 1938), also known as Pee Wee Trahan. Trahan has used this pseudonym most notably on racist recordings issued in the 1960s on J. D. "Jay" Miller's Reb Rebel label of Crowley, Louisiana. Johnny Rebel is often misidentified as the pseudonym of David Allan Coe, and some of his songs have been attributed to Johnny Horton.

His songs frequently use the n-word and often voice sympathy for Jim Crow-era segregation and the Ku Klux Klan.

Trahan first recorded under the Johnny Rebel moniker in the mid-1960s. He employed J. D. "Jay" Miller's recording studio in Crowley, Louisiana. Miller, in fact, produced the sessions and issued the recordings on his own Reb Rebel label.

Trahan's first release — the fifth for the Reb Rebel label — was a 45 RPM single of "Lookin' for a Handout" and "Kajun Ku Klux Klan." He would record five more singles for the label, which included "N***er,N***er" "In Coon Town," "Who Likes a N***er?," "N***er Hatin' Me," "Still Looking for a Handout," "Some N***ers Never Die (They Just Smell That Way)," "Stay Away from Dixie," and "Move Them N***ers North."

At least two of Trahan's songs, "Keep a-Workin' Big Jim" and "(Federal Aid Hell!) The Money Belongs to Us", were not about race, but about political issues — namely, the efforts of Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison to solve the Kennedy assassination, and a song critical of U.S. federal aid programs.

Two of these songs were eventually issued in album format by Reb Rebel Records under the title "For Segregationists Only".

After a hiatus of about three decades, Trahan returned as Johnny Rebel in 2001 when he issued his CD single "Infidel Anthem," recorded in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. In 2003 Trahan released the album It's the Attitude, Stupid!, on the Try It Man record label.

These two songs, Lookin' For A Handout and Kajun Ku Klux Klan, represent some of the lowest, most despicable attitudes that any one man can have over another. Although I don't condone the attitudes expressed in the songs we can still learn something from them, if only how not to treat other people. They do represent an attitude which was still abundant in parts of the south during the early 1960s. The record is in excellet condition and plays cleanly on both sides. The label is  slightly damaged on the Klan side but not too badly. Buyer will include $4 for shipping. Thanks.