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Swamp blues has a laid-back, slow tempo, and generally is a more rhythmic variation of Louisiana blues, incorporating influences from New Orleans blues, zydeco, soul music and Cajun music. [3] It is characterized by simple but effective guitar work and is influenced by the boogie patterns used on Jimmy Reed records and the work of Lightnin ...
Slim Harpo (born Isiah Moore or James Isaac Moore; February 11, 1924 [a] – January 31, 1970) [1] [2] 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". [3] He played guitar and was a master of the blues harmonica, known in
Gabriel Perrodin (August 17, 1937 – January 28, 2017), known as Guitar Gable, was an American Louisiana blues, swamp blues and swamp pop musician. He was best known for recording the original version of "This Should Go On Forever", and his part in the vibrant swamp blues and pop scene in Louisiana in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Swamp rock fuses rockabilly and soul music with swamp blues, country music and funk. [1] Swamp blues provided swamp rock with its defining guitar sound, which was low toned and often reverberated. [1] The sound also frequently uses horns, due to its soul influence, although solos are more commonly performed on guitars. [1]
Louisiana blues is a genre of blues music that developed in the period after World War II in the state of Louisiana. It is generally divided into two major subgenres, with the jazz-influenced New Orleans blues based on the musical traditions of that city and the slower tempo swamp blues incorporating influences from zydeco and Cajun music from around Baton Rouge.
Leslie Johnson (June 20, 1933 – August 22, 2018), [1] [2] known as Lazy Lester, was an American blues musician who sang and played the harmonica and guitar. In a career spanning the 1950s to 2018, he pioneered swamp blues, [3] and also played harmonica blues, rhythm and blues and Louisiana blues.
Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967) [1] is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer. [2] His playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues.. He plays a stock 1972 Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions.
Ernest Joseph "Tabby" Thomas, (January 5, 1929 – January 1, 2014), also known as Rockin' Tabby Thomas, was an American blues musician. [1] He sang and played the piano and guitar and specialized in swamp blues, a style of blues indigenous to southern Louisiana. [2]