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Swamp Rock: Local heroes who rocked the everglades

Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1983

Four hundred miles of US highway run between Port Arthur, Texas in the West and New Orleans, Louisiana in the East. On either side of it are found the townships of South Louisiana and all the smaller settlements that spring to life in the songs and stories of Cajun or swamp-pop.

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