KWKH Archives - 64 Parishes

Country music in Louisiana grew out of folk traditions of white rural southerners and includes rockabilly and Cajun music as subgenres.

The Louisiana Hayride was a radio barn dance broadcast from Shreveport’s Municipal Auditorium between 1948 and 1960.

Swamp pop music combines New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music.

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