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The symbol of Louisiana, if there was one, should be a giant musical note...per musical states, if there was such a thing as a concept, Louisiana would be at the top of the list......Keyboard stylists like Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis helped define rock and roll at its beginning.
The cajun beat, shuffle, and boogie influenced groups as diverse as Creedence Clearwater Revival and Jerry Reed and Elvis's later swamp rock...the Zydeko style has been hugely popular for decades in the world music scene....
Here are a few classic Big "L" influences tunes, some that charted and some that did not..
BTW, everyone sounds black when they sing out there, because the deep south accent out there, and the creole mixes and such, make everyone knee deep in soul....is it just me, or does the cajun/bayou stuff sound wicked as hell?
Three from the record label often credited (it was south Louisiana based and most of their roster originated in the state) with either starting or perfecting the Louisiana swamp blues style of the late '50s/mid-60s.
kUDOS to the Whistler and ole Deezus for unearthing some gems...and great that you threw some swamp rock together as well...I've just recently discovered the same, I hate to say....sounds like it was hard edged r and b, with a zydeco bent, but I could be wrong..still working on learning about swamp rock....and I do recognize Slim Harpo's name, but never heard his stuff before..thanks for the intro to his tunes...
kUDOS to the Whistler and ole Deezus for unearthing some gems...and great that you threw some swamp rock together as well...I've just recently discovered the same, I hate to say....sounds like it was hard edged r and b, with a zydeco bent, but I could be wrong..still working on learning about swamp rock....and I do recognize Slim Harpo's name, but never heard his stuff before..thanks for the intro to his tunes...
I've been a blues person since my teen years, when I discovered B.B. King by accident. (He was opening a concert I went to on a summer camp trip---the co-headliners, in a kind-of Woodstock warmup show, were the Who and Jefferson Airplane. One listen to B.B. King and I was a goner. I've never looked back. If it hadn't been for B.B. King and Michael Bloomfield, I never would have tried to play a guitar seriously.) I fell upon the swamp bluesmen such as Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Lonesome Sundown, Silas Hogan, and others kind of by accident, too, when I spotted an old anthology of the Excello Records stable of whom they were part, recognised Slim Harpo, and bought it on impulse. I've been hunting down as much of those guys as possible, not to mention people like Lazy Lester and Blue Charlie . . .
I'm working up a version that'll blend "Graveyard Train" to Howlin' Wolf's "Smokestack Lightning" to play with the blues band I'm putting together even as I write . . .
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