?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.
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