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Tag: Beau Jocque

Beau Jocque

Beau Jocque: The Funkiest Band in the Land

Posted on April 22, 2015October 19, 2015 by Scott Billington

When I first heard Beau Jocque in 1992 at the Quarterback Lounge in a rundown neighborhood of Lafayette, Louisiana, I felt as if I had been transported to a primeval moment in which all the music I loved—funk, blues, R&B and zydeco— had coalesced into a single, relentless groove. I was also a little bit scared. Read more

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Listen: Beau Jocque interview on American Routes

Posted on February 2, 2015February 3, 2015 by Julie Miller

Nick Spitzer, host of American Routes on WWNO in Louisiana, sat down with the late and  legendary zydeco artist Beau Jocque in this archival interview from 1998. Read more.

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