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Their music is a combination of rock, country, cajun, boogie, swing and western. The songs range from some of the raunchiest truck-driving songs ever written, through Doug Kershaw's "Diggie-Diggie Low" to Carl Perkins's "Boppin' the Blues...

Author: By Robert A. Rosenberg and Roger L. Smith, S | Title: Booked to Cook | 1/19/1972 | See Source »

...props are assembled: henchmen, reprisals, shootouts at the warehouse, payoffs and protection rackets. The author even seems to have anticipated the recent caveats of the Italian-American Civil Rights League: the world Mafia is missing. Indeed, when his wife dies, leaving only two daughters, Oliver "adopts" a handsome young Cajun named Robert Caillet, cuts him in on the business, and literally railroads him into marriage with his older daughter Anna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Out of the Old Pirogue | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

...poised wisdom in her top-20 single That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be. >Linda Ronstadt, 25, has had two Capitol LPs out in less than a year. Born in Tucson, Ariz., she is basically a country-rock stylist. Her musical interests (Cajun and mariachi among them) are broad, and she can somehow get as much kick into singing a slow blues number as into a wailing rock version of Wayne Raney's We Need a Lot More of Jesus (and a Lot Less Rock and Roll). - Rita Coolidge, 26, is a Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King as Queen? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

After work, the men take hot showers, chuck their dirty clothes into washing machines and take off for the chow hall. There are separate menus for the two prevailing cultures on board. The Cajuns get their rice, beans and gumbo and the Mississippians their ham, greens and potatoes. Then they talk sex, watch television or play a Cajun card game called Bourée (pronounced boo-ray). To a visitor, there seems a relaxed camaraderie aboard, as though the men had achieved a kind of brotherhood through suffering. Still, there is no desire by the men to see their experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oilmen at Sea: Life on South Marsh Island 73 | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

Written under a pseudonym by a Catholic priest, it is a rambling, disjointed story about two boys in the Louisiana Cajun country that includes homosexual episodes more vague than vivid. But Shelton found the story "pornographic" and unsuitable for Atlanta. "I regard its appearing there," he explained, "the way I would have if one of my daughters had been violated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Battle of Atlanta | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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