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Excerpts from George Rodrigue's Blue Dog Speaks

Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 7:07 a.m.

Excerpts from George Rodrigue's Blue Dog Speaks

Why does the artist focus on the blue dog that has now become his signature? "The blue dog, before he was a blue dog, he was a Cajun folk lore tale called the loup-garou," he says. "When I was a child, my mother would tell me that if I wasn�t good today, the loup-garou would come get me tonight."

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Why does the artist focus on the blue dog that has now become his signature? "The blue dog, before he was a blue dog, he was a Cajun folk lore tale called the loup-garou," he says. "When I was a child, my mother would tell me that if I wasn�t good today, the loup-garou would come get me tonight."

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