Simien wrote the song and released it on the Maison de Soul Records label in Ville Platte, Louisiana.
Cleon was also the president of the Orleans Street Jocks Association and took twenty copies of the record back to the city; he quickly had to order more.
Huey Meaux got the original leased to Epic Records, who released it nationally,[3] and for a brief moment Rockin' Sidney made musical history.
[6] As a result, Simien was featured in People magazine, Rolling Stone, Billboard and Music City News and appeared on many national TV shows, including Nashville Now, Church Street Station, Hee Haw, Austin City Limits, John Fogerty's Showtime Special, New Country and Charlie Daniels Jam.
Playing "Casey Patterson", a contestant on The Voice looking to leave her career replacing trailer hitches on U-Hauls, and to move from the "basement without the roof", which Jason Sudeikis' character Blake Shelton described as "a hole".