Word: jambalaya
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Much of the Cajuns' singular culture lingers on today, despite the invasion of their backwater over the past 30 years by public roads and private oil entrepreneurs. Gumbo and jambalaya still simmer on Cajun stoves and are dished up at local crawfish festivals (Rushton includes recipes for the adventurous). Men like James Daisy still rise at 3 a.m. to dredge for oysters: "Out there's where I live," he says of the endless marshes...
...when Hank Williams died at the age of 27 in the back seat of one of his Cadillacs that December night in 1954, heading down a desolate stretch of U.S. Route 60 for one more gig, the whole nation mourned this strange Alabaman whose country standards like "Jambalaya," "Your Cheatin' Heart," and "Lonesome Me" have entered the pop pantheon. Not that long, because down in Memphis Elvis Presley was recording at Sun and rockabilly was on the rise. But Hank Williams had earned himself a place in American music, and as the son he had named after himself grew...
...list of the world's great foods would have to include such Southern elegances as she-crab soup, terrapin stew, jambalaya, black-bottom pie, gumbo or pompano en papillote...
Hank Williams, Jr. was barely two years old on the December night his father died in the back seat of a Cadillac in southern West Virginia, minutes after finishing his last gig. Williams pere casts an awesome shadow over country music--"Jambalaya," "Hey Good Lookin'" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" have entered the pantheon of American popular music...
BRENDA LEE, diminutive in stature, stands head and shoulders above everyone else on the distaff side of the rock picture. Since she recorded Jambalaya as a 12-year-old, she has simply overpowered every song that has come her way. Her big voice is best in the slow numbers like I'm Sorry and Losing You, but her delicately-wielded heavy bass is just as characteristic in the rockers--Dum, Dum, Sweet Nothins, That's All You Gotta Do--in which she employs another trademark, her non-piercing screams...