Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South by Alex V. Cook
By Alex V. Cook
Music critic Alex V. prepare dinner uncovers south Louisiana’s wellspring of musical culture, exhibiting us that indigenous track exists now not as an artifact to be salvaged by way of preservationists, yet serves as a residing, respiring, making a song, guffawing, and crying a part of Louisiana tradition. Louisiana Saturday evening takes the reader to either offbeat and conventional venues in and round Baton Rouge, Cajun kingdom, and New Orleans, the place we listen the special voices of musicians, buyers, and owners—like Teddy Johnson, born in the home that now serves as Teddy’s Juke Joint. alongside the way in which, prepare dinner ruminates at the cultural value of the folks and areas he encounters, and indicates their serious position in preserving Louisiana’s specified tune alive.
A map, a magazine, a photo of what is going on within the little shacks off major roads, Louisiana Saturday evening presents an critical and wonderful spouse for these in pursuit of Louisiana’s quirky and sundry nightlife.
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