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Not merely is Alabama-born Jerry McCain a good amplified harpist, he’s also among the funniest songwriters functioning the genre and continues to be for a lot more than four years, mainly because anyone who’s dug his out-of-control 1950s Excello rockers “My NEARBY Neighbor” and “Seeking to Please make sure to” …

Unlike a lot of his swamp blues brethren, the evocatively monikered Lonesome Sundown (the name was an inspired gift from producer J.D. Miller) wasn’t a Jimmy Reed disciple. Sundown’s somber make of blues was even more commensurate with the gruff audio of Muddy Waters. The guitarist was probably one of …

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 …

A South Louisiana swamp pop staple through the 1950s and ’60s, the Boogie Kings reformed in 1991 and found their regional support as healthy as ever (even back again on a single label they began with, Floyd Soileau’s Jin Information). Founders Doug Charles, Elbert Miller, and Neglect Morris got departed, …

A piano-pounding institution within the Southern Louisiana swamp blues picture during the past due ’50s and early ’60s, Katie Webster later on grabbed a long-deserved talk about of national reputation with some well-received Alligator albums. Poor Kathryn Thorne got to cope with deeply spiritual parents who do everything within their …

When he wasn’t busy siring progeny (the Neal home produced ten children, many of them apparently now using the blues), Raful Neal was staking his state among the top harpists over the Baton Rouge blues front. However, until lately, his discography didn’t reveal that position — but albums for Alligator …

Coy “Hot Shot” Like was a renaissance guy, of a sort, in blues: sign-painter, road denizen, along with a magician using a harmonica, who liked to adorn his natural leather coat and his bike, as well as other personal products with text messages regarding his lifestyle. He resided on Gayoso …

The career of singer/songwriter, guitarist, and harmonica player Small Victor (born Victor Macoggi) started on the tender age of 14 and included a blues apprenticeship with a club residency with Uncle Ben Perry on Memphis’ renowned Beale Road. After documenting demos with Alex Chilton and with Howlin’ Wolf’s guitarist, Hubert …

The acknowledged kingpin from the Louisiana school of blues, Lightnin’ Slim built his style on his grainy but expressive vocals and rudimentary guitar work, with usually only a harmonica along with a drummer in support. It had been down-home nation blues edged two guidelines further in to the mainstream, initial …

Watermelon Slim (his true name is Costs Homans) was created in Boston but raised in NEW YORK, where, he says, he was initially subjected to the blues in age five. He sang in choirs and glee night clubs as a kid, but he started seriously embracing music following a tour …