Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Song lyrics, vinyl records and decorated jackets hang from the walls as you enter the Louisiana Swamp Pop museum in Ville Platte.

Tommy McLain, one of Louisiana's swamp pop pioneers, has died. He started playing at the vanguard of the genre in the 1950s, when Louisiana musicians like Abbeville's Warren Storm and Rayne's Johnnie ...

The Louisiana Swamp Pop Museum will celebrate its 12th birthday with an Open House on Friday, October 28. For this special event, admission will be free from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. that day. KVPI ...

Johnny Allan is a household name and pioneer in the Swamp Pop industry. He said he's thankful for the Swamp Pop Museum, which helps to preserve the history of a genre of music he helped to create.

Beloved “swamp pop” musician Tommy McLain, whose 1966 hit “Sweet Dreams” reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, died Thursday morning at 85. His passing was announced by his family in a social media ...

The Revelers, featuring members of the Pine Leaf Boys and the Red Stick Ramblers, qualify as a southwest Louisiana supergroup. Formed two years ago, the Revelers expand upon the repertoires of both ...

Tommy McLain is enjoying the attention. Ever since his new album, “I Ran Down Every Dream,” was announced in April, the 82-year-old Louisiana musician has been fielding interviews with both local and ...

ROBERT, La. (AP) -- From out of the postwar swamps of south Louisiana, there arose a music all its own -- a feel-good sound known as ``swamp pop.'' A half century later, this indigenous form of early ...

Rod Bernard, the Cajun entertainer and broadcaster whose work helped pioneer south Louisiana’s swamp-pop sound, died on July 12, 2020. Born in Opelousas, Louisiana, Bernard played guitar, sang and ...

Warren Storm, a beloved drummer and vocalist who was among the pioneering musicians who defined the swamp pop genre of the 1950s, died on September 7 at age 84. Storm had been hospitalized since ...

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 ...