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 ...

The Big 4 of New Orleans rock provide a deft representation the city’s famous gumbo-pot diversity. There’s a sardonic piano-playing storyteller, a metal pioneer, a mystic swamp-rock legend and a ...

The Louisiana native died of a heart attack at home in Leiper's Fork, Tenn. on Thursday. Tony Joe White, a songwriter and recording artist with the laid back but slightly dangerous demeanor of a well ...

For more than a decade, Jersey City’s Reese Van Riper – the name of the lead singer and the band -- has been grinding out a unique blend of “Jersey swamp rock.” “Saints,” the group’s latest album, ...