Dancing To New Orleans

This made-for-TV documentary filters the origins of American music through the sieve of Louisiana's history, examining the successive influence of immigrant cultures from Spain, France, Africa and other far-flung locales. The story starts with highlights of Louisiana's influence on pop music. In 1948, Hank Williams featured country music on his Shreveport radio program, "Louisiana Hayride;" soon after, Jerry Lee Lewis ignited the Rock and Roll revolution in Ferriday. As we hear the contemporary Raymond Myles Gospel Group, the influence of religious singing on Rock and Roll and the Blues is starkly apparent; in fact, two distinct styles of Blues developed in Texas an...