Bayou underground : tracing the mythical roots of American popular music
Permeating the shadows and the darkness of the bayou--a world all its own that stretches from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama--this study of marsh music leaves New Orleans to discover secret legends and vivid mythology in the surrounding wilderness. The people and the cultures that have called the bayou home--such as Bob Dylan, Jerry Reed, Nick Cave, Bo Didley, and a one-armed Cajun backwoodsman and gator hunter named Amos Moses--are unearthed not only through their own words and lives but also through a study of their music and interviews with visitors to and residents from the region. The
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