 | The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel by Walker Percy
Buy new: $12.00 / Used from: $0.99 Walker Percy was a novelist with the guts to ask the big questions, and the skill to do it in an entertaining way.
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 | Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales by Lyle Saxon
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $4.97 An unacknowledged source for many a novel, short story and movie set in South Louisiana. From folk remedies to horrific serial killers to truly creepy ghost stories, a terrifically fun book to read.
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 | Rock 'n Roll Gumbo by Professor Longhair
Buy used from: $8.46 Professor Longhair on piano and vocals with Gatemouth Brown on guitar and fiddle, rippin' it to shreds.
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 | A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.88 If you've ever lived in New Orleans, you will recognize Ignatius and his fellow cast members. Captures the flavor of New Orleans like no other book.
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 | Gottschalk: Piano Music
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $6.24 If Gottschalk had been born seventy years later, he'd be remembered as Louisiana's Gershwin. As it is, he's Louisiana's Beethoven.
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 | Fiddle King of Cajun Swing by Harry Choates
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $12.03 Harry Choates, what a card. Featuring a swingin' version of the Cajun standard, "Allons a Lafayette" and of course, the harrowing "Devil in the Bayou."
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 | Bring It on Down by Red Stick Ramblers
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $11.14 Speaking of Harry Choates, these fine young fellers would seem to be his bastard grandsons (is that possible?)
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 | TABASCO® Pepper Sauce
There are others, and some of these are even good, but Tabasco remains the first, and the best. By the way, if it ain't made in Louisiana, it ain't Louisiana hot sauce.
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 | Working in a Coalmine: The Very Best of Lee Dorsey by Lee Dorsey
Buy used from: $22.21 Lee Dorsey had a sound that could only have come from New Orleans: laid back, but get-up-and-danceable at the same time.
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 | The Best of Slim Harpo by Slim Harpo
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $7.60 Slim Harpo, the pride of Lobdell, Louisiana. Spooky, party-friendly bayou blues.
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 | The Very Best of the Meters by The Meters
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $4.47 Dey all axed fa you, baby! Play this CD at your next party and watch everybody get down.
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