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
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.