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Tin-eared critics possess frequently damned him being a yuppie blues wannabe whose slickly soulful offerings bear scant resemblance to the true down-home item. The truth is, Robert Cray is normally among a valuable few youthful blues-based artists using the skill and eyesight to effectively usher the idiom in to the …

Denny Cordell may be the type of man who, in his 30-12 months music profession, was at just about any right place in the right period. Given birth to in Buenos Aires but elevated in Britain, Cordell fulfilled and befriended Isle Records creator Chris Blackwell in the sensitive age group …

A genuine icon of swamp rock and roll, Tony Joe Light parlayed his songwriting skill and idiosyncratic vocals right into a modestly successful nation and rock and roll career in European countries in addition to America. Blessed July 23, 1943, in Goodwill, Louisiana, Light was born right into a part-Cherokee …

Lil’ Music group O’ Platinum resurrected swamp pop custom while putting its stamp around the rock and roll music appearing out of Southwest Louisiana. The nine-piece supergroup, comprising vocalist/guitarist C.C. Adcock, vocalist/accordionist Steve Riley, vocalist/pianist David Egan, saxists Dickie Landry, David Greely, and Pat Breaux, bassist Dave Ronson, pedal-steel guitarist …

Being elevated in southwest Louisiana with zydeco bursting from every juke joint provides provided C.C. Adcock an alternative take on regular four-bar blues. The Lafayette-raised Adcock, a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, doesn’t enjoy straight-ahead blues; his music can be heavily loaded with unconventional blues-rock melodies and zydeco rhythms. The countless …

Contemporary zydeco’s most widely used performer, accordionist Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural was the organic successor towards the throne vacated from the death of his mentor Clifton Chenier; infusing his propulsive party music with strains of rock and roll and R&B, his urbanized audio — filled with details of synthesizer and trumpet …

A significant behind-the-scenes shape in popular music for 40 years, composer/songwriter/maker/arranger/studio room musician Jack port Nitzsche served an essential function in 1960s rock and roll & roll, getting a tuned musician’s know-how to carry on the task of even more instinctive rockers in a manner that complemented and deepened their …