Blood and Oil

Lauren Kenny & Travers of South by Northeast Prod

Blood and Oil is the New Orleans history podcast that starts after the tourist booklets end. Join hosts Lauren Whitley-Haney & Kenny Haney as they detail the story of industry & violence in 1900s South Louisiana plantation country.

Episodes

  1. 01/30/2023

    The Plantation Museums on River Road, Part II

    In the finale of Blood & Oil, hosts Kenny & Lauren detail their experiences at some of the plantation museums in South Louisiana: Oak Alley Plantation, Laura Plantation & Creole Heritage Site, and the Whitney Plantation & Slavery Museum.  Thank you to all of our listeners for supporting our project of untold Southern history! Come with us inside these museums and see for yourself what we discuss in the episode!  View our photos on the Episode 9 Show Notes page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-9  Music: Blood & Oil Theme, Brotha Trav www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    55 min

  2. 01/23/2023

    The Plantation Museums on River Road, Part I

    While progressive River Road residents organized for a better environment, their conservative neighbors organized to create Louisiana’s River Road plantation museums. New historical societies transformed their socioeconomic power into the institutional power to construct a lasting historical narrative. Plantation museums might not pollute the natural environment like refineries, but they have polluted Louisiana in a completely different way. Episode 8 Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-8  Music: Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille. www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav  Fundraiser Acoustic Folk Guitar, Media Music Group Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    49 min

  3. 01/16/2023

    “Cancer Alley”

    Many people have heard of “Cancer Alley,” a fatalistic name given to South Louisiana’s chemical corridor along the Mississippi River. But how did this region receive that name, who created it, and what is being done to challenge industrial domination? This episode looks at the swell of Louisiana’s grassroots environmental organizing during the 1980s and 1990s. Episode 7 Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-7  Find Steve Lerner’s book, Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana’s Chemical Corridor here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262622042/diamond/  Music: Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille. www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav America The Blue, Patrick Smith Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    32 min

  4. 12/19/2022 ·  Bonus

    Holiday Special! Tourism in NOLA: Then & Now

    In this special episode of Blood & Oil, hosts Kenny & Lauren go on a festive tangent: the history of tourism in America’s Most Interesting City, New Orleans.  With the help of friends and family to describe what makes New Orleans special to them, Blood & Oil looks at New Orleans’ other big industry and asks the question: how can learning about the history of tourism deepen our love of NOLA and help us be better tourists? Music: Time To Swing - Neil Cross Join our Patreon for hours of extra content & to support independent research: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast  Holiday Special Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/holiday-special  Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    51 min

  5. 12/05/2022

    The Oil Boom in Plantation Country: Labor in Louisiana

    In part 3 of our Oil Boom episode series, we dive into Louisiana’s labor history. We talk about why the Jim Crow South had so few labor unions before World War II and when labor finally arrived in Louisiana, how it changed the refinery forever and killed the company town.  Join our Patreon for hours of extra content & to support independent research: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast  Episode 6 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-6  For more about the history of the Oil Workers International Union, see Ray Davidson’s book, Challenging the Giants. Music: Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    37 min

  6. 11/28/2022

    The Oil Boom in Plantation Country: The Company Town

    Part 2 of our Oil Boom episode series is all about the company town! Were refinery company towns really that different from the old sugar plantations they sprouted up around? In this episode, Kenny & Lauren focus on St. Charles Parish - home to two refinery company towns, one of which is still around today. Contributor Travers LaVille joins to watch and comment on the corporate propaganda needed to sustain company towns and the refineries they served.  Join our Patreon for hours of extra content & to support independent research: www.Patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast  Episode 5 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-5  Shell Norco 1997 video on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/328540723  1916-1917 Pan American Record at Google Books: https://books.google.com/books/about/Pan_American_Record.html?id=jYQwAQAAMAAJ  Music: Blood & Oil Theme - Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav  Wilderness Mindset - Humans Win Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    39 min

  7. 11/21/2022

    The Oil Boom in Plantation Country: Why Louisiana?

    Here it is, folks! The stage is set and the main act of “Blood and Oil” has arrived.  In this episode, hosts Kenny and Lauren talk about what led to the creation of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” as we know it today. Why did global oil companies choose Louisiana back in the 1910s, and what was it like for the generation who experienced Louisiana’s Petrochemical Revolution? Contributor Travers LaVille joins to discuss the “Louisiana paradox” - high concentration of industry and high levels of poverty.  The story of Alex Royal is based upon census data and historical newspapers, and is inspired by Saidiya Hartman’s style of “critical fabulation,” filling in gaps of the cold historical record with warmth and life.  Part 1 of 3. Listen next week for Part 2: The Company Town.  Episode 4 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-4 Together Louisiana’s “Why Louisiana Stays Poor.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38  Music:  Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    37 min

  8. 11/14/2022

    What Plantation Museum Tours Don’t Tell You, Part II: Reconstruction

    In this episode, we detail the other missing part of plantation museum tours: Reconstruction and the establishment of Jim Crow in the South. In the decades after the Civil War, the political pendulum swung far and wide with disastrous effects we trace to current day.  Hosts Kenny & Lauren detail the hyper-partisan Reconstruction Era in New Orleans and South Louisiana, the start of local tourism, working class interracial collaboration, and Solid South Democrats’ creation of Jim Crow.  Episode 3 Show Notes Page: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-3  Music:  Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav  Lonely Dusty Trail, Jon Presstone Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    24 min

  9. 11/07/2022

    What Plantation Museum Tours Don’t Tell You, Part I: Antebellum Period

    In this episode of “Blood and Oil,” we detail what the traditional plantation museum tour doesn’t tell you. The Louisiana sugar plantation before the Civil War wasn’t an agrarian daydream. It was an industrial nightmare. Hosts Kenny & Lauren provide background on colonial and antebellum life in Louisiana, from the late 1600s to the 1840s. They are joined by friend and contributor Travers LaVille to read Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave and discuss the 1811 German Coast Uprising. Episode 2 Show Notes Page www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-2 “America’s largest slave revolt brought back to life.” The Guardian. November 14, 2019. https://youtu.be/v2to3S0iabE  Music:  Blood & Oil Theme, Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav  Delta Moan, Humans Win Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    42 min

  10. 10/31/2022

    Plantations and Petrochemicals on the Great River Road

    In the series premiere of “Blood and Oil,” we examine New Orleans & South Louisiana’s little-known history. Not voodoo curses, ghosts, and the antebellum romance you’ve heard a hundred times, but what happened afterward… the rampant greed, corruption, and exploitation that defined 1900s Louisiana, when many discovered that their American Dream was actually a waking nightmare of blood and oil. Sources: DemocracyNow YouTube clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpuXDX0YuvM  Episode 1 Show Notes page www.bloodandoilpodcast.com/episode-1 Music credits:  Blood & Oil Theme by Travers LaVille: www.instagram.com/BrothaTrav  “Shake It and Break It,” by Humans Win. Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    42 min

  11. Season 1 Trailer

    Teaser

    Introducing Blood and Oil. A Podcast dedicated to revealing the complicated history of 20th century southern Louisiana. Support Blood & Oil on Patreon: www.patreon.com/bloodandoilpodcast Visit our website for more information: www.bloodandoilpodcast.com Follow us! Instagram: www.instagram.com/bloodoilpod Twitter: www.twitter.com/bloodoilpod The opinions voiced within this podcast’s conversations are just that - opinions. When facts and research are given, the sources are cited within our Show Notes page on our website and/or within the episode. Questions, comments and corrections: bloodandoilpodcast@gmail.com

    1 min

Trailer

Ratings & Reviews

4.1
out of 5
7 Ratings

About

Blood and Oil is the New Orleans history podcast that starts after the tourist booklets end. Join hosts Lauren Whitley-Haney & Kenny Haney as they detail the story of industry & violence in 1900s South Louisiana plantation country.

Information

  • Creator
    Lauren Kenny & Travers of South by Northeast Prod
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    11
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Blood and Oil
  • Show Website
    Blood and Oil