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Beth McKee is a singer and songwriter who comes from Jackson, Mississippi, but was raised all around the American South. She takes on piano, body organ, and accordion aswell. Her music can be deeply affected by and steeped in the region’s wealthy musical history from blues and R&B to Cajun, …

Named after an extremely real swamp that is situated close to the border of Louisiana and Mississippi, the Honey Isle Swamp Band can be aptly named, having a rootsy sound that includes the very best of both declares. The group’s music can be a swampy mixture of blues, spirit, country, …

Grandpa Elliott is a veteran blues vocalist and road performer who was simply entertaining audiences for many years before he gained overnight popularity through a viral online video. Grandpa Elliott was created Elliott Little in New Orleans, LA in the middle-’40s; developing up in the Lafitte Casing Projects, Elliott created …

Germany’s Mardi Gras BB certainly are a vibrant jazz, funk, spirit, rock and roll, and hip-hop outfit using a distinctly swampy New Orleans experience, led with the charismatic Doc Wenz (aka Jochen Wenz) and ex – Grug Grug bass participant Reverend Uli Jug, who has sousaphone in the music group. …

Along with Artwork Neville, Leo Nocentelli and Zigaboo Modeliste, Brand-new Orleans R&B bassist George Porter, Jr. was a founding person in the Meters, New Orleans’ top funk band from the ’60s and ’70s. Porter continued to be in demand like a program musician for quite some time, and Runnin’ Partner, …

Alabama 3 was among the oddest music clothes to arise from past due-’90s London, but also probably one of the most initial. The band’s roots are shrouded in metropolitan misconception — the music group likes to declare that the three primary members fulfilled in rehab, while their Southern accents possess …

The Athens, GA, music collective Dark Meats were formed by singer/guitarist Jim McHugh and bassist Ben Clack once they moved to Athens from NEW YORK in 2004 and met guitarist Kris Deason (of Subversivo) and drummer Forrest Leffer (formerly of Carrie Countries) while working at a downtown restaurant. The group …

Drummer Joseph “Ziggy” Modeliste was among the primary members from the Meters, a pioneering funk music group located in New Orleans. He’s widely known as the innovator of a method of playing referred to as second-line funk. Being a single musician, he released the record Zigaboo.Com in 2000, about 2 …

After studying classical piano for seven years in his German homeland, a 13-year-old Kaeshammer (pronounced “case-hammer”) discovered boogie-woogie mainly because played simply by Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Pete Johnson, and Pinetop Smith. In 3 years, the teenager wunderkind was playing boogie-woogie piano in night clubs, concerts, and celebrations around …

The longtime drummer for the Music group, Levon Helm wore many musical hats throughout his very long career, including multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, impresario, studio owner, studio engineer, and producer. He was raised focusing on a plantation in Arkansas; his 1st instrument was acoustic guitar, which he started playing at age …