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Harpist Whispering Smith managed to get in for the tail end from the swamp blues motion that swept the Baton Rouge area, dealing with Lightnin’ Slender and Silas Hogan prior to making his very own great singles for Crowley, LA manufacturer J.D. Miller. Alternating down-in-the-bayou entries such as for example …

Playing a revved-up combination of punk, rockabilly, hard rock and roll, country, and soiled boogie, New Orleans natives Dash Rip Rock and roll are probably one of the most long lasting acts within the Southern “cowpunk” scene, playing rowdy, sweat-soaked displays and producing bold, raucous files more than a quarter-century …

b. 25 January 1932, Union Cathedral, Mississippi, USA, d. 19 Apr 1984, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Smith is normally more from the blues of Louisiana, where he resolved in his twenties, than that of his delivery state. He discovered harmonica in his teenagers and was playing frequently while still in …