Louisiana Music
Louisiana MusicBy Rick Koster
Da Capo, $16.50
Dallas music writer (and sometime New Orleans musician) Rick Koster spent a year in Louisiana taking in as much rootsy music as possible to better understand the swampy state’s pull on him. Koster, who wrote 1998’s Texas Music, documents his odyssey in Louisiana Music, an entertaining, opinionated and personal journal of what makes the music tick (sex, booze, crawfish gumbo). Rife with wild local myths — like the long-ago day when badass blues pianist James Booker and the Neville Brothers’ Cyril Neville plowed Bentley through a stunned fairground crowd, handing out joints — Koster’s broad-minded book is more anecdotal than comprehensive.
James Porter
