"To the southwest of
Baton Rouge the
french-music, i.e. the traditional native music of the Acadian region (
Cajun Country), in the mid-twentieth century was no longer isolated as it until a few decades earlier, and was discovered influenced by the surrounding popular musical culture, from
country music to rhythm and blues. ... It was in the little
Crowley that the
swamp blues developed and defined itself in its characteristic expression, and precisely in J
.D's
studio. Miller. A place or, it is appropriate to say, a genius loci that in those years became unrattled and contaminated with blues,
cajun,
zydeco, country, rock ‘n’ roll, for the passage of many local artists, many from towns in southern Louisiana and south-east Texas, from
the Bayou Country, such as Church Point, Breaux Bridge, Rayne, Ville Platte,
Lake Charles,
Port Arthur, Eunice, Opels (e.g. from
Lafayette to
Beaumont and vice versa) represented by I 10, crossed from the east and west for his job opportunities, and on which Crowley casually pinned. In this album we find those five names of the Baton Rouge area listed on the cover in a mature phase, aware that the parable of the swamp blues, at least the one identified as 'Excello sound' and therefore that of commercial success, was accomplished. ..."
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