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 ...

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 ...

Mention swamp pop and some may think you’re talking about a soft drink. But decades before it became a name for a soda, swamp pop was a music genre born in south Louisiana, just like its cousins Cajun ...

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 American rock 'n' roll ...

A triple swamp pop music threat, Don Rich sings, writes songs and plays seven instruments. As popular and talented as the fifth-generation musician and lifelong Pierre Part resident is, he’s resisted ...

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.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Hard-living swamp pop performer Joe Barry, whose 1960 version of "I'm a Fool to Care" put him in the national spotlight, died Aug. 31. He was 65.Barry suffered a heart attack about ...

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 ...

What started as a way to help one man’s granddaughter battle cystic fibrosis has turned, somewhat surprisingly, into one of the biggest showcases of swamp pop music in south Louisiana. The Swamp Pop ...

When Collin Cormier and John Peterson launched their line of Louisiana-themed soft drinks, Swamp Pop, two years ago, their goal was to make an impression in the state. It’s gone well beyond that.