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• 1 media/license_plate_map_usa_60in_2012_ed3_lg.jpg 2017-11-28T18:02:56-08:00 Introduction 16 "You can find Louisiana in everything," Landreth once told me during an interview, after demonstrating how to play Jimi Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic" as blistering Cajun blues. Here is more proof--a dozen dispatches from way down in the state, by a writer who has done the miles and vividly caught the people he's heard and met along the way. It is not the Louisiana in everything. But it's close."~ David Fricke -Rolling Stone July 14th 2015 image_header 2017-11-30T00:31:18-08:00 University of Louisiana Lafayette Dupre Library Special Collections Cajun and Creole Music Collection Mouton, Todd. Way down in Louisiana: Clifton Chenier, Cajun, Zydeco, and Swamp Pop Music. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2015. Many do not realize or often acknowledge the contributions to music that Louisiana has made. Four musical genres of Louisiana crossed Louisiana's state borders and were played in well-known cities such as Chicago, New York, and big states such as Texas and California. The artists being spotlighted from these genres are grouped accordingly. Louisiana Sounds Across the Country feature Zydeco artists like legendary Clifton Chenier and Buckwheat Zydeco; Jazz legends like Louis Armstrong and Wynton Marsalis; Swamp Pop stars like Warren Storm and Bobby Charles; Cajun music legends such as D.L. Mendard and Michael Doucet. These artists are only some of the many great musicians that spread Louisiana greatness across the United States.