{"product_id":"9781554906826","title":"Bayou Underground: Tracing the mythical roots of American popular music","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bayou is a world of its own — a marshy, sometimes treacherous, oft-times sinister land of creeping darkness and living shadows, secret legends and vivid mythology. It is that darkness and those shadows that permeate \u003ccite\u003eBayou Underground\u003c\/cite\u003e, the first study of the Louisiana music scene ever to leave behind the bright lights of big city New Orleans, and plunge instead into the wilderness that not only surrounds the Big Easy, but which stretches for hundreds of miles on either side, from Houston, Texas, to Mobile, Alabama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ccite\u003eBayou Underground\u003c\/cite\u003e explores the music of the region from the House of the Rising Sun to gator hunting with Amos Moses (the one-armed Cajun backwoodsman created by country songwriter Jerry Reed) to artists like Bo Diddley, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, who were influenced by unsung heroes of the Bayou.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ccite\u003eBayou Underground\u003c\/cite\u003e, the people and the cultures that have called the bayou home are unearthed through their words and lives, but most of all through the music that has, over the last century, either arisen from the swamplands themselves, or been drawn from fellow visitors to the region, as they seek to set down for posterity the emotions, dreams, and enchantments that the area instilled in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart social history, part epic travelogue, and partly a lament for a way of life that has now all but disappeared, \u003ccite\u003eBayou Underground\u003c\/cite\u003e is the gripping story of American music’s forgotten childhood, and the parentage it barely even knows about. By comparison, the Big Easy had it easy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ECW Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137575502064,"sku":"9781554906826","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781554906826_p0.jpg?v=1769899062","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781554906826","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}