Bayou Underground | WSJ.com: Book Review

A Road Trip in Search of Ghosts -- One man's tribute to the seductive rhythms, exotic sounds and wild legends of Louisiana's swampland.


In "Bayou Underground," a head-long dive into the music and culture of New Orleans and its environs, Dave Thompson rightly stops to comment on "I Walk on Gilded Splinters." He calls it "the definitive sound of bayou country." The music is as "intense as it is hypnotic . . . all jerking ropes and clouds of smoke, charnal chants and crazy-eye staring."

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