• Swamp blues is a type of Louisiana blues that developed in the Black communities of Southwest Louisiana in the 1950s. It incorporates influences from other...
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  • Swamp rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the mid-1960s as a fusion of rockabilly and soul music with swamp blues, country music and funk...
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  • Gene (2020). Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians: Jazz, Blues, Cajun, Creole, Zydeco, Swamp Pop, and Gospel. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University...
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  • Orleans–style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French Louisiana musical influences. Although a fairly obscure genre, swamp pop maintains a...
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  • the jazz-influenced New Orleans blues based on the musical traditions of that city and the slower tempo swamp blues incorporating influences from zydeco...
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  • genres are indigenous to this area — Creole music (i.e. zydeco), swamp pop, and swamp blues. These historically-rooted genres, with unique rhythms and personalities...
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    Strongly influenced by Jimmy Reed, swamp blues has a slower pace and a simpler use of the harmonica than the Chicago blues style performers such as Little...
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  • J. D. "Jay" Miller (category Swamp pop music)
    American record producer and songwriter from Louisiana, whose Cajun, swamp blues, and swamp pop recordings influenced American popular culture. Miller was born...
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  • Special, and Molly Hatchet. Swamp rock originated in the mid-1960s as a fusion of rockabilly and soul music with swamp blues, country music and funk. The...
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    Marcia Ball (category Swamp blues musicians)
    saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet." The Boston Globe described her music as "an irresistible celebratory...
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  • 8 Ball Aitken (category Australian blues singers)
    8 Ball plays blues, swamp-blues, swamp-rock, alternative country, and Americana music. He is notable for his fusion of Australian blues and country music...
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  • Memphis blues New Orleans blues Piedmont blues Punk blues Rhythm and blues Doo-wop Soul blues St. Louis blues Swamp blues Talking blues Texas blues West...
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  • Slim Harpo (category Swamp blues musicians)
    1970) was an American blues musician, a leading exponent of the swamp blues style, and "one of the most commercially successful blues artists of his day"...
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  • Swamp music may refer to: Swamp rock Swamp blues Swamp pop "Swamp Music", a track from the 1974 album Second Helping by Lynyrd Skynyrd "Swamp Music",...
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    Tab Benoit (category Swamp blues musicians)
    1967) is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a stock 1972...
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  • Lightnin' Slim (category Swamp blues musicians)
    1974), known as Lightnin' Slim, was an American blues musician who played Louisiana blues and swamp blues for Excello Records. According to most sources...
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  • Stones featuring live recordings from 1965. The title is a pun on the swamp blues song "I Got Love If You Want It" by Slim Harpo; the Stones recorded his...
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    Williams Jr. (born July 12, 1942), generally credited under the pseudonym Swamp Dogg after 1970, is an American country soul and R&B singer, musician, songwriter...
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  • and visual art in provocative dialogue. His newest illuminated book, Swamp Blues Men, is a collaboration with the historical West Baton Rouge museum in...
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    Lazy Lester (category Swamp blues musicians)
    an American blues musician who sang and played the harmonica and guitar. In a career spanning the 1950s to 2018, he pioneered swamp blues, and also played...
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    Louisiana. The band was marked by an unusual blend of sludge metal, swamp blues, doom metal, hardcore punk and psychedelia. Singer Dax Riggs's voice...
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    on the album: "Already Here" Swamp pop Swamp blues Zydeco Cajun music Cajun Tejano music Notes from the Roots n' Blues CD "Cajun Dance Party - Fais Do-Do"...
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  • Raful Neal (category Swamp blues musicians)
    Raful Neal (June 6, 1936 – September 1, 2004) was an American Louisiana blues singer, harmonicist and songwriter from the United States. Neal was born...
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  • roll and rhythm and blues (specifically New Orleans rhythm and blues). Swamp rock – a fusion of rockabilly, soul music, swamp blues, country music and...
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  • I'm a King Bee (category Blues songs)
    King Bee" is a swamp blues song written and first recorded by Slim Harpo in 1957. It has been performed and recorded by numerous blues and other artists...
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    Katie Webster (category Swamp blues musicians)
    of swamp blues musicians List of Louisiana blues musicians New Orleans rhythm and blues Music of Louisiana Swamp blues List of New Orleans blues musicians...
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  • 1980s, when he performed on the national blues festival circuit. Swampin' (1991) and Louisiana Swamp Blues, Vol. 4 (1993) showcased the range of Edwards's...
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  • Rockin' Sidney (category Swamp blues musicians)
    Rockin' Sidney". During this period he cut well over a dozen R&B, soul, and blues singles such as "Something Working Baby" and "Soul Christmas", without much...
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  • of gospel and blues music, which were selected by Pizzolatto and T Bone Burnett. The pair opposed the use of Cajun music and swamp blues for the season's...
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  • Floyd Soileau (category Swamp pop music)
    others making significant contributions to what was the, then, controversial swamp pop music. In 1975 he established his Maison de Soul record label, devoted...
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