Even though music doesn't feature as prominently in this series, as it does (and should) in the rock series, it's still a major part of New Orleans culture and must add to the setting, because you hear it all over town. IF you've ever visited the Vieux Carré, you know what I'm talking about.
So I created the proverbial master playlist to accompany the action (plus to stir the creative pot inside my head). The song selection, though it includes the usual NOLA fare (Louis Armstrong, Buckwheat Zydeco, Jo-El Sonnier, Mark Broussard, Allen Toussaint), plus the proverbial horror/Halloween-inspired chansons (Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Iron Maiden), C-Watch's soundtrack is more of an homage to the vastly diverse collection of artists that The Colonel worked with for almost forty years as a concert production manager. The master list I created is so schizophrenic it's become one of my favorites.
Charmaine Neville followed by Travis Tritt followed by Public Enemy followed by Type O Negative.
It's awesome.
What's sad is that I was down to finishing the last chapters before I even considered looking for songs about Rougarous. Duh. Then I realized I had no idea how many songs there really were with "Rougarou" in the title. I even found a band named Rougarou. I used three of them songs I'd discovered for the Book One list:
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