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Yvette Landry. Photo by Lucius Fontenot

I’m Leaving It Up to You: Yvette Landry’s Louisiana lovin’ goes worldwide

August 27, 2018 by: John Wirt

Beyond its south Louisiana birthplace, swamp pop is less known than the region’s internationally branded Cajun and zydeco music. A hybrid of Cajun-French music and classic rhythm and blues from New Orleans, swamp pop is most of all music made for a dancehall on a Saturday night. Singer-songwriter Yvette Landry grew up in a swamp pop–loving family in Breaux Bridge. She heard Cajun music on the radio, but swamp pop, not walt...

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