Swamp Pop - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Swamp Pop write by Shane K. Bernard. This book was released on 2009-09-23. Swamp Pop available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Music of Louisiana was at the heart of rock-and-roll in the 1950s. Most fans know that Jerry Lee Lewis, one of the icons, sprang out of Ferriday, Louisiana, in the middle of delta country and that along with Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley he was one of the very first of these “white boys playing black music.” The genre was profoundly influenced by New Orleans, a launch pad for major careers, such as Little Richard's and Fats Domino's. The untold “rest of the story” is the story of swamp pop, a form of Louisiana music more recognized by its practitioners and their hits than by a definition. What is it? What true rock enthusiasts don't know some of its most important artists? Dale and Grace (“I'm leaving It Up to You”), Phil Phillips (“Sea of Love”), Joe Barry (“I'm a Fool to Care”), Cooke and the Cupcakes (“Mathilda”), Jimmy Clanton (“Just a Dream”), Johnny Preston (“Runnin' Bear”), Rod Bernard (“This Should Go on Forever”), and Bobby Charles (“Later, Alligator”)? There were many others just as important within the region. Drawing on more than fifty interviews with swamp pop musicians in South Louisiana and East Texas, Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues finds the roots of this often-overlooked, sometimes-derided sister genre of the wildly popular Cajun and zydeco music. In this first book to be devoted entirely to swamp pop, Shane K. Bernard uncovers the history of this hybrid form invented in the 1950s by teenage Cajuns and black Creoles. They put aside the fiddle and accordion of their parents' traditional French music to learn the electric guitar and bass, saxophone, upright piano, and modern drumming trap sets of big-city rhythm-and-blues. Their new sound interwove country-and-western and rhythm-and-blues with the exciting elements of their rural Cajun and Creole heritage. In the 1950s and 1960s American juke boxes and music charts were studded with swamp pop favorites.
Way Down in Louisiana
Way Down in Louisiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Way Down in Louisiana write by Todd Mouton. This book was released on 2015-09. Way Down in Louisiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With Clifton Chenier's amazing life and career as the centerpiece, this collection of profiles gathered across two decades unites some of the world's most innovative creative forces.
Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians
Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians write by Gene Tomko. This book was released on 2020-03-11. Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Louisiana’s unique multicultural history has led to the development of more styles of American music than anywhere else in the country. Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians compiles over 1,600 native creators, performers, and recorders of the state’s indigenous musical genres. The culmination of years of exhaustive research, Gene Tomko’s comprehensive volume not only reviews major and influential artists but also documents for the first time hundreds of lesser-known notable musicians. Arranged in accessible A–Z format—from Fernest “Man” Abshire to Zydeco Ray—Tomko’s concise entries detail each musician’s life and career, reflecting exciting new discoveries about many enigmatic and early artists: Country Jim, Henry Zeno, Douglas Bellard, Good Rockin’ Bob, Blind Uncle Gaspard, Emma L. Jackson, and Rocket Morgan, to name just a few. A separate section features musicians from elsewhere who made an impact in Louisiana, such as Mississippi-born blues singer-songwriter-guitarist Eddie “Guitar Slim” Jones and celebrated jazz pianist Billie Pierce, a native of Florida. The final section highlights key regional record producers and studio and label owners, like J. D. Miller, Stan Lewis, and Cosimo Matassa, who have enabled future generations to enjoy music of the Bayou State. Written with both the casual fan and the scholar in mind, Encyclopedia of Louisiana Musicians is the definitive reference on Louisiana’s rich musical legacy and the numerous important musicians it has produced.
South to Louisiana
South to Louisiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South to Louisiana write by John Broven. This book was released on 1987-01-01. South to Louisiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Describes the history of the music of southern Louisiana and examines the influence of Cajun songs on American popular music
Taking the World, by Storm
Taking the World, by Storm - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taking the World, by Storm write by Warren Storm. This book was released on 2019. Taking the World, by Storm available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Warren "Storm" Schexnider is a Louisiana musical legend. Know to many as, "The Godfather of Swamp Pop," Now, at the age of 82, Warren's career has spanned over 70 years, and shows no signs of slowing down. Taking the World, by Storm - A Conversation with Warren "Storm" Schexnider, is just that. It is a conversation, accompanied by photographs of Warren's amazing musical career. From meeting Elvis at Graceland, to shaking Hank Williams hand, to sharing the stage with the Robert Plant and his idol, Fats Domino, Warren's endless stories will keep you entertained. Warren's story has been one of his own making. As is the case for many a career musician, it's never been an easy road to travel. But, it is one that allows a man like Warren to carve out his own path and plant his flag in whatever ground he can cover"--
