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.

It's the 14th anniversary celebration for the Swamp Pop Museum in Ville Platte. On Friday, music lovers from across Acadiana joined together to celebrate the significance behind the Swamp Pop Museum ...

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.

VILLE PLATTE, La. (WVUE) - The unique blend of rock and roll music known as swamp pop grew popular in the dance halls of south Louisiana and managed to score a few top hits in the 1950s and 1960s.

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 ...

Warren Storm, known as the "Godfather of Swamp Pop," has died at the age of 84. The Abbeville drummer and vocalist who pioneered the swamp pop genre had been hospitalized since mid-August for ...

At age 82, Warren Storm is one of the last surviving originators of swamp pop music. Credit: Photo by Scott Clause/Courtesy of KL Productions He’s known as the “Godfather of Swamp Pop”—but not because ...

When I recently went in search of a legendary Cajun soda pop company, I didn’t have to travel far. Who would have guessed Swamp Pop, the pride of Lafayette, Louisiana, would have their world ...

Swamp pop musician and broadcaster Rod Bernard died Sunday. He was 79 years old. Born to French-speaking Cajun parents, Bernard learned to play guitar, sing and yodel from a young age. By age 10, ...

Sandy Himel is associate professor and head of government information and the Cajun and Creole Music Collection at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Photo: Doug Dugas/University of Louisiana at ...

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 ...