Sometimes it's called "swamp pop": a slippery and soulful sound that slid between the cracks of country, R&B, zydeco, Cajun folk music, and earliest rock and roll. Biracial music from a segregated era ...

Louisiana has always been a state that dances to its own beat. That beat might be a jazz brunch in Lake Charles, Cajun dance at a traditional pig roast in Baton Rouge, or swamp pop blasting out a ...

Head to southern Louisiana with filmmaker Matthew Wilkinson to soak up one of the country's best-kept musical secrets: Lil' Band o' Gold, a group of seasoned musicians who churn out an eclectic blend ...

ROBERT, La. (AP) - From out of the postwar swamps of south Louisiana, there arose a music all its own - a feel-good sound known as "swamp pop." A half century later, this indigenous form of early ...

ROBERT, La. (AP) -- From out of the postwar swamps of south Louisiana, there arose a music all its own -- a feel-good sound known as ``swamp pop.'' A half century later, this indigenous form of early ...