Camile Baudoin

Who is Camile Baudoin?

Camile Baudoin is a guitar player from New Orleans, Louisiana and a founding member of The Radiators.

Baudoin shares lead guitar duties in The Radiators with Dave Malone, and plays with or without a slide. Since the band's equipment truck was stolen in 2001, Baudoin has mainly played a malachite green PRS Custom 24 or a Rainsong WS-1000 graphite guitar.

In Born on the Bayou, an autobiographical essay on his website named for a Creedence Clearwater Revival song, Baudoin writes, "my Paran Alton, who played in a country band, taught me how to play guitar." When Baudoin was "about 10 or 12" he was invited to sit in with the Dufrene Brothers, and he says, "After that night, I pretty much knew what I was going to be doing for the rest of my life." While he was still in high-school, Baudoin began playing at clubs on Bourbon Street, in various bands, often with fellow Radiator-to-be, Ed Volker. One of these high-school bands, Souls Of The Slain. released a single that was included on a compilation called Louisiana Punk From the Sixties. During his twenties, Baudoin played in several bands, including The Dogs and The Rhapsodizers. In 1978, Baudoin and Volker and drummer Frank Bua quit The Rhapsodizers to join The Radiators.