DEFEND NEW ORLEANS TUMBLR: Heart of Louisiana: La's oldest record shop

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As you drive the two-lane highway between Mamou and Ville Platte, you can still find Cajun music on the am radio. It’s part of the soul of the landscape of rice farms and cattle pastures that are the Cajun prairie.

Floyd Soileau opened his Ville Platte record store in 1956. He says it’s…

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