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MonkeyJunk

Canadian swamp blues and root base rock-band MonkeyJunk shaped in 2008 in Ottawa, Ontario. From the gate, they boasted a somewhat uncommon set-up with vocalist and harmonica participant Steve Marriner manning the baritone electric guitar, as opposed to the even more usual bass. Along with business lead guitarist Tony D …

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Stacy Guess

A trumpeter and guitarist using a succession of NEW YORK bands, Stacy Think never quite produced a national discovery. Actually, he was trashed of his best-known music group, the Squirrel Nut Zippers, right before they strike pay dirt using their second recording. However, Think was precious for the Chapel Hill …

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Guitar Gabriel

b. Gabriel Perrodin, 17 August 1937, Bellvue, Louisiana, USA. Learning acoustic guitar in his teenagers, Gable was affected by the buzzing, melodic design of Electric guitar Slim. He documented for Jay Miller along with his music group the Musical Kings in 1956/7, and many successful singles had been released on …

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Tommy McLain

Along with his gutsy mixture of rockabilly and Cajun music, Tommy McLain helped to place the building blocks of Louisiana’s swamp pop tradition. The author of a lot more than 150, McLain is most beneficial referred to as the author of Freddy Fender’s strike, “UNLESS YOU Love Me Only (Keep …

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Jerry “Boogie” McCain

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” …

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Robert Garrett

b. 1916, Free of charge Hill, Tennessee, USA. A jack port of all deals you should definitely playing music, Garrett offers resided for some of his existence in Totally free Hill, an isolated community founded by freed slaves around 1830. He documented a splendid electrical blues solitary for Excello Information …

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Lillian Offitt

b. 4 November 1938, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. On the data of her fifty percent dozen produces, Lillian Offit was an ordinary but lusty blues shouter, of little stature and commensurate skill. She was still going to university when she frequented the offices of Nashboro Information in the wish of earning …

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Lonesome Sundown

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 …

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Whispering Smith

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 …

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Johnnie Allan

Johnnie Allan’s been a prominent Cajun performer since his teenagers, when joined accordionist Lawrence Walker’s music group as a metal guitarist. When the music group break up, Allan teamed with pianist/fiddler U.J. Meaux, maker Huey Meaux’s cousin, in the Krazy Kats, a rock-band. Allan continued performing stone and R&B in …

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