SHOP TIL YOU DROP:Downtown shops and restaurants will be open late during First Friday Sip & Shop. (Submitted Photo) THOMASVILLE- The City of Thomasville is hosting its next First Friday Sip & Shop on ...

Song lyrics, vinyl records and decorated jackets hang from the walls as you enter the Louisiana Swamp Pop museum in Ville Platte. The tunes of some of the genre's biggest stars play in the background ...

Louisiana's Cajun Country is one of the most unique areas of the United States. It's officially called Acadiana, after the French speaking Acadians who settled there after being exiled from Canada by ...

Mention swamp pop and some may think you’re talking about a soft drink. But decades before it became a name for a soda, swamp pop was a music genre born in south Louisiana, just like its cousins Cajun ...

There’s something about the swamp—the place and the sound. It’s dark, it’s grimy, it’s sinister. And it’s beautiful. “The sonic, emotional vibe of the swamp is [a feeling of] imminent danger,” says ...

The 18th Annual Price LeBlanc Toyota and Nissan Swamp Pop Music Festival is Friday and Saturday at the Lamar Dixon Expo Center’s air-conditioned Trademart building in Gonzales. The festival, which ...

Walter Parks has played his guitar on stages all around the world, but his musical roots go back to public schools in Jacksonville. Parks, who teams up with blues guitarist Guy Davis for a show ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to the longtime outsider soul artist about his new country-influenced album Sorry You Couldn't Make It, which... Swamp Dogg On Reinvention, Country Music And Getting ...