February 2012. Louisiana Saturday Night.

“I always think back to that first phone call I had with James about doing a story on Teddy’s Juke Joint, and it was his belief that there was something there that spurred on this whole project,” recalls Country Roads’ Really Listening columnist Alex Cook. “I took off for the club that very night. That night and just about every time as I go to these places, I have a point of panic on a stretch of empty, darkened highway that my destination doesn’t exist anymore, that I am operating on the dim memories of others. But suddenly there will be a shack strung up with holiday lights with the sound bleeding out into the night air, or a bunch of people dancing in an old barn or a marina bar and I’m reminded that Louisiana culture grows best in the wild, and there are still plenty of patches of it to explore.”

And it is those “patches” that Cook explores in his new book Louisiana Saturday Night available in March from LSU press.

We’re so glad we had the chance to spur Alex on down those dark country roads.

Learn more at LSUpress.org.

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