Song lyrics, vinyl records and decorated jackets hang from the walls as you enter the Louisiana Swamp Pop museum in Ville Platte. The tunes of some of the genre's biggest stars play in the background ...
Since 2012 Eunice native Chris Fontenot has taken his Cajun food concept to customers in his new hometown in northwest Oregon. He’s gone from food truck to restaurant to packaged foods. But each step ...
Warren Storm, Cajun elder from Abbeville, Louisiana, is a drummer, singer, and pioneer of swamp pop, the style that combines R&B, country, Cajun, and Creole music. Storm’s family name is Warren ...
Swamp Pop Sugarcane Sodas, which was started by two first cousins in Lafayette, was sold to an Oregon-based food company in December. Our Life Foods, a company started by Eunice native Chris Fontenot ...
VILLE PLATTE, La. (WVUE) - The unique blend of rock and roll music known as swamp pop grew popular in the dance halls of south Louisiana and managed to score a few top hits in the 1950s and 1960s.