“I like the way you walk

I like the way you talk, Suzie Q”

—Hawkins, Lewis, Broadwater

“North Louisiana had its own thing,” says Dale Hawkins. “We had a different mixture but still had the funk.” Anyone who’s ever heard the low-down, cow bell-infused swamp groove that Hawkins’ signature “Suzie Q” is built upon would no doubt have to agree. “The beat was there first,”...