Bayou Underground
Tracing the mythical roots of American popular music
Dave Thompson, Mike Harrison, Brent LaPorte
ECW Press
Livre numérique
?The Bayou is a world of its own - a marshy, sometimes treacherous, oft-times
sinister land of creeping darkness and living shadows, secret legends and
vivid mythology. It is that darkness and those shadows that permeate Bayou
Underground, the first study of the Louisiana music scene ever to leave behind
the bright lights of big city New Orleans, and plunge instead into the
wilderness that not only surrounds the Big Easy, but which stretches for
hundreds of miles on either side, from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama.
Bayou Underground explores the music of the region from the House of the
Rising Sun to gator hunting with Amos Moses (the one-armed Cajun backwoodsman
created by country songwriter Jerry Reed) to artists like Bo Diddley, Nick
Cave, Bob Dylan, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, who were influenced by
unsung heroes of the Bayou. In Bayou Underground, the people and the cultures
that have called the bayou home are unearthed through their words and lives,
but most of all through the music that has, over the last century, either
arisen from the swamplands themselves, or been drawn from fellow visitors to
the region, as they seek to set down for posterity the emotions, dreams, and
enchantments that the area instilled in them. Part social history, part epic
travelogue, and partly a lament for a way of life that has now all but
disappeared, Bayou Underground is the gripping story of American music's
forgotten childhood, and the parentage it barely even knows about. By
comparison, the Big Easy had it easy.
sinister land of creeping darkness and living shadows, secret legends and
vivid mythology. It is that darkness and those shadows that permeate Bayou
Underground, the first study of the Louisiana music scene ever to leave behind
the bright lights of big city New Orleans, and plunge instead into the
wilderness that not only surrounds the Big Easy, but which stretches for
hundreds of miles on either side, from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama.
Bayou Underground explores the music of the region from the House of the
Rising Sun to gator hunting with Amos Moses (the one-armed Cajun backwoodsman
created by country songwriter Jerry Reed) to artists like Bo Diddley, Nick
Cave, Bob Dylan, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, who were influenced by
unsung heroes of the Bayou. In Bayou Underground, the people and the cultures
that have called the bayou home are unearthed through their words and lives,
but most of all through the music that has, over the last century, either
arisen from the swamplands themselves, or been drawn from fellow visitors to
the region, as they seek to set down for posterity the emotions, dreams, and
enchantments that the area instilled in them. Part social history, part epic
travelogue, and partly a lament for a way of life that has now all but
disappeared, Bayou Underground is the gripping story of American music's
forgotten childhood, and the parentage it barely even knows about. By
comparison, the Big Easy had it easy.
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