Tag Archives: Swamp Pop

Rodney Thibodeaux and Tout Les Soir satisfaction themselves on the power of not merely using traditional Cajun music, but also zydeco, South Louisiana swamp pop, blues, nation, and ’50s ’60s rock and roll & roll. In addition they play something they contact intensifying Cajun, which is normally mainly traditional Cajun …

From the center of Philadelphia, PA, this all-star lineup has a colorful band of personnel with decades of encounter. Bandleader Pete Eshelman can be presented on accordion and vocals and he offers performed piano with such performers as Bo Diddley, Sleepy LaBeef, and New Orleans’ very own Charles “Honeyboy” Otis. …

Louisiana pianist Roy Perkins made some small singles on little regional brands in the late ’50s and early ’60s which were quite definitely in the design of the era’s New Orleans rock and roll & move and R&B. Perkins had not been in fact from New Orleans, but from Lafayette …

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 …

Early rock ‘n’ roller Joe Barry, a Cajun from southern Louisiana, began recording locally in 1958. In 1961, his second solitary for Jin Information, “I’m a Fool to Treatment,” was found nationally by Mercury Information’ Smash subsidiary and peaked in the pop Best 40. (In addition, it reached the R&B …

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 …

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 …

Manufacturer and songwriter J.D. Miller was a pioneering power in the advancement and preservation of Louisiana music — the creator from the state’s first record label, Fais Perform Perform, he proved helpful in a variety of designs from Cajun to honky tonk to blues, but his legacy continues to be …

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 …

In the later ’50s Margaret Lewis documented some obscure rockabilly and bluesy swamp pop singles for the tiny Shreveport, LA, label Ram. Her edges attract curiosity by basic virtue to the fact that there weren’t many girl rockabilly or swamp pop performers in any way, and there weren’t a good …