 At that time, she was mostly listening to Blues and Rhythm & Blues artists (Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye to name a few) while hearing a lot of jazz at home because her father loved Louis Armstrong and jazz from the 1940s.She began playing in nightclubs at the age of 16 (her parents chaperoned) and worked with a band, "Larry Stanley and The One Eyed Jacks".At the age of 17, Judy began doing some recording sessions at Robin Hood Brian's recording studio in Tyler, Texas, playing the Hammond B3.