Founded at the Maple Leaf Bar on a hot summer night, J & The Causeways is a band spearheaded by singer-songwriter-keyboardist Jordan Anderson. Backed by a pulsating rhythm section, Anderson is a powerhouse vocalist of old-school rhythm and blues.

I come from Leesville—a very small town in Southwest Louisiana—where I grew up with music, as my grandmother was a piano teacher. She spent time teaching her student...