Lovely guy too..No backup musicians for him. Just a drummer usually Bryan (Fleetwood Cadillac) Steamy windows is just unbeatable...My only regret is that I never saw him in concert. RIP Tony.
Tony Joe !!! That stomp box OMG ! He was monstrous live ...My favorite Swamp rockin' tune is "Travelin' Mood" by Wee Willie Wayne , so F' ing Great . If you're not familiar with it, you may want to give it a quick pass and see what you think... If you're looking for Proto CCR type Swamp-a-delic Blues riffing you may well want to give this a listen. Steve Cropper threw down on some real funky, swampy type R n B licks on a lot of early Stax tracks as well
Tab, and Sonny, both tour the New England area regularly, we've seen each of them here a halfdozen times. In 2018, my wife and I flew to Louisiana to attend Tab's 3-day, free, Voice of the Wetlands Festival in his hometown of Houma, LA; meanwhile, Sonny was playing gigs an hour's drive from my house!
PS, John Mooney is another really good one. Growing up in Rochester New York, he hung out with Son House a lot and later moved to New Orleans (he's in FL now).
Tab and Sonny both are as swamp as they come. Tab really has a signature sound that many unwittingly think that they created, but Tab has been playing those riffs for decades. Sonny, well his slide work is unparalleled. Only Derek Trucks can come close.
I've been listening to JJ Cale for decades and discovering new things in his style. He was criminally underrated. Some artists made a fortune doing one or two songs. JJ Cale had hundreds great songs that others covered or copied to become rich. With JJ it was not about the money... Got to respect a man like that.
Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd fame was a great swamp rock player. Take a listen to "Alone in the Multitude" which was pre-Skynyrd when he was with the Crawdads. He was a great slide player. He tragically died way too young...
Man Steve could flat lay it down. His cover of honky Tonk nightime man by haggard is just phenomenal. I’ve said many times as great as skynard is what they would have added to their game with the time for Steve to have his influence on the whole group.
Great video, I love swamp rock. Grew up listening to CCR, Tony Joe White, and Jerry Reed among others. I noticed someone mentioned Tab Benoit - years ago I was playing a gig in Lafayette, La and he asked if he could sit in and play my guitar. He was hot - great player and singer of course now he’s a legend especially around here. Thanks for spotlighting the genre - excellent.
Great video. I love all of these guys but CCR turned me on to this style when I was a kid. I believed at the time they were from Louisiana, or the deep south based on their sound. What's really amazing is the fantastic tone all of these players have.
I always loved that stuff. Got to see Tony Joe White live at the Rock'n'Bowl in New Orleans and he played with just a drummer. Great night. You can't think about Swamp Music for long without thinking about New Orleans---Shane Theriot is great at that stuff and he's still around, got a cool RUclips channel. Dr. John was a guitar player until he got shot in the finger and switched to piano. (He occasionally played guitar live.) Of course, The Meters are as funky as it gets. Snooks Eaglin played with Professor Longhair, and he (Snooks) had a great, gritty tone.
This is such a well done video, with a variety of artists who contributed so much to the 'swamp rock' sound. That is one beautiful guitar you are playing. I was fortunate, as a teen, to have seen CCR three times in concert at the Sam Houston Coliseum, in 1970, 1971, and 1972. What made those concerts so exciting were the performers and groups which went on before CCR: Wilbert Harrison (one-man band, at this time with "Work Together", "Kansas City", etc.), Booker T. and the MGs., Bo Diddley, Freddie King, Tony Joe White, and Tower of Power.
Link Wray in my opinion is the king of rock n roll guitar! His guitar sound made rock n roll dangerous and gave it the attitude and grittiness that you hear in a lot of different genres of more modern rock music today.
His early 70s stuff from Wray shack three track are very Swamp like sounding tho some called it Indian Funk back then. Check _Fire & Brimstone_ Jesse Ed Davis is another Native American guitarist who did some great stuff, especially as a side man. His 1971 solo album is great, and the album he done with Roger Tillison worth checking out too.
Thank you very much for the profund history of music facettes, was not aware of term "swamp rock" though the sound of BD "Who do you love!" and CCC is very, very present... even here in europe. You make me bring the guitar from the stock room back to work.....
Otis Hicks aka Lightning Slim, Juke Boy Bonnar, Lazy Lester, Excello Records!!! Lightning Slims The little red Rooster and Slim Harpo’s Tip on in are a couple great ones.
Polk Salad Annie. That tune just reeks of swampy goodness . Tony Joe White nailed it. Another tune that wasn't mentioned but to me really has that swampy vibe is John Fogerty's The old man down the road. From the minute you hear that opening riff you know what's coming next. This song got heavy play on MTV and the video for it was really good. It introduced a whole new generation to the swamp rock scene.
@@HaroldWayneSaxtonJr-bd8vk True...If one is as old as me, every song will remind him of another. There are only so many notes and chords to play with.
My money for the Swampiest ever is on the suitably murky _Boogie in the Mud_ by Danny James. Real Southern boy who didn't like to Tour, otherwise, Y'all had known his name.
He did so many great songs, Steamy WIndows, Cool Town Woman, Roosevelt and Ira Lee, Tunica Motel, Undercover Agent for the Blues, Groupy Girl, I've Got a thing About you Baby, et al. He should have been much bigger in the US, but was massive in Europe, particularly, strangely, France (maybe that Bourboun thang), but most folks in US just know about Polk Salad Annie.
Check out Randy Crawford's cover of Rainy Night in Georgia. She does a great job on it. Her version of Knocking On Heavens Door is worth a listen also.
It's no surprise that Ry was chosen to do the discomforting soundtrack for "Southern Comfort"! Another great slide player deserving a mention in this category is John Mooney.
Reminds me of Southern Culture on the Skids. Saw them play several times in small clubs in the early 90s, hillbilly, swampy, surf, and a lot of fried chicken.
Though I never played it, this is one of the styles of music I really like. One day, I met a sax player with whom I played in a band for some time. When he had listened to me playing, he said that he could hear that I was no doubt listening a lot to Tony Joe White. Well, how big a compliment can you get ? Besides, I never tried playing any TJW song : I play fingerstyle most of the time. Very nice video !!! Greetz from Belgium.
Wow, I think I may have found a guitar RUclipsr that's in tune with what I was just playing a moment ago. The computers, they listen....anyway, thanks for sharing your expertise in this area. I feel like this is guitar language that I alredy stumbled upon but listening to where a lot of this came from is super eye-opening. Its crazy you know when you play something, it sounds familiar yet you're CERTAIN you'd never heard the song before once presented with it? I have that same feeling from watching this and realizing that there is some osmosis learning if you're always half-listening to and for music wherever you are.
Hey. I appreciate your appreciation of swamp rock. On your outro artwork there is that big, bad and mean lookin' gator waitn' to chomp, chomp, down on whatever unfortunate soul - like "granny" that comes within reach. Tony Joe White wrote and performed this great classic. I also love the version Elvis did. Stay safe - out there in the swamp.
I simply have to say, you have grate manner, a way that is both humble and authoritative. I really appreciate your posts. I’m a rockabilly, rock n roll Guitarest. Can you do a top 10 of this genre? Eddie, Gene, Cuck, Cliff Gallup, Scotty More, to get you started. ❤
Don't forget those Skynyrd boys with the song Swamp Music. I can't say that I have a favorite swamp rock player. So many great ones to choose from. But it's always been one of my favorite guitar styles. Enjoyed your playing. You nailed it.
I am a blues player 45 years :-) Id forgotten Tony Joe White ,,,,,,,,thanks for reminding me and thanks for the Swamp Video really enjoyed it , wonderful thing about guitar Blues theres ALWAYS more to learn
Good ole Roy Clark,,, You mention Jerry Reed, I remember seeing a lot of great pickers but Jerry and Roy were a couple of the most entertaining and awe inspiring, and I'm not a fan of country lol. I just love guitar... Back in '76 I started high school, I remember friends being a little shocked I was playing note for note. Then when EVH came out, it took me about a week to learn most of the album. Eruption took me the longest, cause I thought I was cheating, having to use my right hand, as my left hand couldn't reach lol. So for more than a year I thought I was always doing it wrong, lol. I remember the look on peoples face playing house parties lol. I could barely look away from playing, but when I did it almost scared me having so many eyes on me lol... First time it happened I faced my drummer buddy lol. but I could only have been 16 or 17 yrs old. lol... That's back when we felt like we have a world wide open for anything we wanted to do. Then government agencies were created basically taxing with rules to be fined by if not followed to the "t"... We see it limiting businesses and inventions today, but no one would know that unless you remember the 60's and 70's... Even music isn't free like it used to be... and I don't mean money lol. Nothing about playing guitar meant you got money lol...
My favourite swamp rock song has always been Born On The Bayou. When I was just a little boy (pun intended) I knocked over a bookshelf playing guitar along with it on a broom stick.
Always loved CCR’s swamp rockers… particularly Green River. The sound they get is so authentically ‘swamp’ I was genuinely surprised to find out they weren’t Born on the Bayou at all… but in El Cerrito CA!
I like his selection (and mention of Lightnin'). It's one thing to be able to play licks as tasty as this, but actually being one of the artists to develop them is something else.
Thx to everyone in the comments who offered so many awesome artist suggestions. And thank you so much for this artist overview, Darren. If you were to suggest the simplest minimum/ideal gear setup for Swamp Rock, what would it be?
Crazy Cajun Cakewalkband song by american indian band REDBONE on the album Redbone 1970. The guitarists Tony Bellamy and Lolly Vegas had the first bad ass swamp sound. Also Witch Queen of New Orleans and many others had that swamp vibe.
These songs may be enjoyable to listeners looking for long ago or overlooked gems that have a swampy flavor; The Tragically Hip's " New Orleans is sinking" and Don Harrison Band’s "Sixteen Tons".
Jerry Reed, my ever Hero of the American country music. I never realized he was thought of that way, as a Swamp Rock guitarist. Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and (much later) Kris Kristofferson, those were my heroes after Jerry Reed!
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I am a jazz piano player, but I can play other music as well. I have always like this type music. I did not know that there was a specific name for it! ‘Swamp Rock is new terminology for me, but I like this music just the same. I use many of these dominant 7th ideas when I am improvising over a blues progression. Especially those double stop ideas, that you mentioned. A heavy weight jazz piano player named Ray Bryant uses some these concepts in his fine playing.
Love those guys. I think he's back in business too. He was battling some seriously bad health problems for awhile but from what I've heard he's better now. I met Omar's former drummer years ago. He was performing with Dale Watson at the time.
The sound is very familiar to me but I have never heard it named as such. Billy Gibbons deserves mention as someone who drew heavily on swamp-influenced riffs.
Tony Joe White is the MAN. "Even Trolls Love Rock And Roll" is a hoot. And? Jerry REED NEVER even came close to the absolute perfection of Amos Moses playing live. The Studio version is much funkier than any of the live versions I have heard.
Think you should have mentioned the importance of tremolo and vibrato to the genre. Both built into amps and pedal versions. Also my vote for Lonnie Mack. Good intro though.
Guitar Gable on Excello, re-released by Ace Records was my first introduction to the genre, I'd heard it before from other bands but not made the connection to the Gulf Coast.
Their roster of artists @@evergladesrhythm ... is swampy par excellence, Silas Hogan, Lonesome Sundown, Slim Harpo, Tabby Thomas all of whom and more were well served by Ace Records compilation and monograph LP's in the 1980's. When it come to more modern stuff Tony Joe White's excellent "Hoodoo" oozes hot and moist out of my speakers.
I'd love you to mention gear you use as well. What kind of amp/pedals are you using here?
Strymon Volante and a JHS Morning Glory through a Kemper ⚡
💥 My favorite Swamp Guitarist? Tony Joe White…hands down! That man had SOUL in his fingers! 👍🏿💥👍🏿💥👍🏿
Awesome!
Lovely guy too..No backup musicians for him. Just a drummer usually Bryan (Fleetwood Cadillac) Steamy windows is just unbeatable...My only regret is that I never saw him in concert. RIP Tony.
Tony Joe !!! That stomp box OMG ! He was monstrous live ...My favorite Swamp rockin' tune is "Travelin' Mood" by Wee Willie Wayne , so F' ing Great .
If you're not familiar with it, you may want to give it a quick pass and see what you think... If you're looking for Proto CCR type Swamp-a-delic Blues riffing you may well want to give this a listen. Steve Cropper threw down on some real funky, swampy type R n B licks on a lot of early Stax tracks as well
Do you have a garter belt is my favorite of Tony's.
First name that came to me also.
Two guys from Louisiana, Sonny Landreth and Tab Benoit. I had the pleasure of seeing Tab live in New Orleans a few years back.
Nice!
Tab, and Sonny, both tour the New England area regularly, we've seen each of them here a halfdozen times. In 2018, my wife and I flew to Louisiana to attend Tab's 3-day, free, Voice of the Wetlands Festival in his hometown of Houma, LA; meanwhile, Sonny was playing gigs an hour's drive from my house!
PS, John Mooney is another really good one. Growing up in Rochester New York, he hung out with Son House a lot and later moved to New Orleans (he's in FL now).
Tab and Sonny both are as swamp as they come.
Tab really has a signature sound that many unwittingly think that they created, but Tab has been playing those riffs for decades.
Sonny, well his slide work is unparalleled. Only Derek Trucks can come close.
Sonny is over the top❤
A modern and highly skilled practioner of "Swamp Rock" is Justin Johnson......whom I strongly recommend to all who love this genre.
He's awesome 👍
@@evergladesrhythm And a very nice guy to boot :)
Yeah, Justin's awesome!
He's definitely got his Blues chops!
YOU BEAT ME TO IT. You can SMELL the SWOMP in his music. Also Little Joe Burgois.
But what do Brits know about swomp music any way.
Jerry Reed had a funky tone in his playing that gave his style an incredibly unique sound.
Great video, its about time that Swamp Rock got in the spotlight and Tony Joe White is Swamp Rock.
Agreed. We (Everglades Rhythm) are working on a swamp rock album.
I've been listening to JJ Cale for decades and discovering new things in his style.
He was criminally underrated. Some artists made a fortune doing one or two songs. JJ Cale had hundreds great songs that others covered or copied to become rich. With JJ it was not about the money... Got to respect a man like that.
Totally.
I loved JJ Cale’s authenticity. Just look at the album liner notes and see how many songs were recorded on Cale’s back porch.
Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd fame was a great swamp rock player. Take a listen to "Alone in the Multitude" which was pre-Skynyrd when he was with the Crawdads. He was a great slide player. He tragically died way too young...
Man Steve could flat lay it down. His cover of honky Tonk nightime man by haggard is just phenomenal. I’ve said many times as great as skynard is what they would have added to their game with the time for Steve to have his influence on the whole group.
@@LastRebel1978yes. He added a lot to an already great band
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Thank you so much! My favorite swamp guitarist is Tab Benoit.
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gotta agree with you on that one - what a Cajun *_Legend !!_*
Ah yes!
First time I've heard of you! What an awesome tone, and such style, swamp style... thanks!
Thanks! I’m glad you found the video.
Great! From start to finish, just packed with fascinating insights and classic riffs.
Thanks Tomas! Glad you enjoyed it.
Great video, I love swamp rock. Grew up listening to CCR, Tony Joe White, and Jerry Reed among others. I noticed someone mentioned Tab Benoit - years ago I was playing a gig in Lafayette, La and he asked if he could sit in and play my guitar. He was hot - great player and singer of course now he’s a legend especially around here. Thanks for spotlighting the genre - excellent.
quite a day for you.
Thanks for watching!
Great video. I love all of these guys but CCR turned me on to this style when I was a kid. I believed at the time they were from Louisiana, or the deep south based on their sound. What's really amazing is the fantastic tone all of these players have.
Thanks! It’s funny they were from California isn’t it! it is a great style!
I always loved that stuff. Got to see Tony Joe White live at the Rock'n'Bowl in New Orleans and he played with just a drummer. Great night. You can't think about Swamp Music for long without thinking about New Orleans---Shane Theriot is great at that stuff and he's still around, got a cool RUclips channel. Dr. John was a guitar player until he got shot in the finger and switched to piano. (He occasionally played guitar live.) Of course, The Meters are as funky as it gets. Snooks Eaglin played with Professor Longhair, and he (Snooks) had a great, gritty tone.
Interesting! Yeah the Meters were pioneers
Thank you. Love some Jerry Reed.
Totally. You're welcome.
Mr. Amos Moses
Sonny Landreth comes to mind.
love your playing your videos AND that beautiful Mosrite guitar hanging on the wall !
Thank you so much! Yes its a beauty.
Another for Tab…phenomenal
Thank You, love the video, as well as your playing and that laid back gritty tone. I hope you keep them coming. Merry Christmas!!
As usual fantastic stuff,right up me alley!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
This is such a well done video, with a variety of artists who contributed so much to the 'swamp rock' sound. That is one beautiful guitar you are playing. I was fortunate, as a teen, to have seen CCR three times in concert at the Sam Houston Coliseum, in 1970, 1971, and 1972. What made those concerts so exciting were the performers and groups which went on before CCR: Wilbert Harrison (one-man band, at this time with "Work Together", "Kansas City", etc.), Booker T. and the MGs., Bo Diddley, Freddie King, Tony Joe White, and Tower of Power.
Glad you found the video Rupert.
TOWER OF POWER !!!!
One of my favorite bands.
@@bak-mariterry9143 They were on the bill at those 1971 and 1972 concerts with CCR. Tower of Power was a fantastic band.
Link Wray in my opinion is the king of rock n roll guitar! His guitar sound made rock n roll dangerous and gave it the attitude and grittiness that you hear in a lot of different genres of more modern rock music today.
Yes, he’s awesome.
His early 70s stuff from Wray shack three track are very Swamp like sounding tho some called it Indian Funk back then. Check _Fire & Brimstone_
Jesse Ed Davis is another Native American guitarist who did some great stuff, especially as a side man. His 1971 solo album is great, and the album he done with Roger Tillison worth checking out too.
I grew up on CCR and love swamp rock, great vid
Glad you found the channel.
Thank you very much for the profund history of music facettes, was not aware of term "swamp rock" though the sound of BD "Who do you love!" and CCC is very, very present... even here in europe. You make me bring the guitar from the stock room back to work.....
Yes- get the guitar out!
good list of players. great tone and playing during your demonstrations, too.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you! Swamp rock has been the red-headed stepchild far too long!
I like this a lot man ❤
Thanks Man. Enjoy the channel ⚡
Very cool. Some of my favorite, lesser known guitarists were featured in this one.
That's cool.
Otis Hicks aka Lightning Slim, Juke Boy Bonnar, Lazy Lester, Excello Records!!! Lightning Slims The little red Rooster and Slim Harpo’s Tip on in are a couple great ones.
That’s cool, thanks Kevin
Polk Salad Annie. That tune just reeks of swampy goodness . Tony Joe White nailed it.
Another tune that wasn't mentioned but to me really has that swampy vibe is John Fogerty's The old man down the road. From the minute you hear that opening riff you know what's coming next. This song got heavy play on MTV and the video for it was really good. It introduced a whole new generation to the swamp rock scene.
It's a clone of "Run through the jungle".
@@samkitty5894 Which was stolen from the mighty Howling Wolf lol
@@HaroldWayneSaxtonJr-bd8vk True...If one is as old as me, every song will remind him of another. There are only so many notes and chords to play with.
@@samkitty5894 Very true , Very true
My money for the Swampiest ever is on the suitably murky
_Boogie in the Mud_ by Danny James.
Real Southern boy who didn't like to Tour, otherwise, Y'all had known his name.
John Fogarty from Northern Cal playing swamp
Somehow, that dominant 7 chord comes out like _donut chord_
Great video. I'll work on these riffs 2nite. Thanks
You got it!
And... cannot forget... Ronnie Dawson... the Texas Rockabilly 🎸 king... his music blended Rockabilly/R&R/Swamp Rock/Country and hints of R&B...
Up Jumped the Devil!!!
Check out Rick Miller from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and his band Southern Culture on the Skids. Voodoo Cadillac is a favorite tune.
That was great. Mark Knopfler’s Gator Blood is a nice tribute to this style.
Love Mark Knopfler
Tony Joe White... the Swamp Fox 🦊 ....he also wrote, "Rainy Night in Georgia"... West Carroll Parish, Louisiana very own... R.I.P.
He did so many great songs, Steamy WIndows, Cool Town Woman, Roosevelt and Ira Lee, Tunica Motel, Undercover Agent for the Blues, Groupy Girl, I've Got a thing About you Baby, et al. He should have been much bigger in the US, but was massive in Europe, particularly, strangely, France (maybe that Bourboun thang), but most folks in US just know about Polk Salad Annie.
Check out Randy Crawford's cover of Rainy Night in Georgia. She does a great job on it. Her version of Knocking On Heavens Door is worth a listen also.
@@johnnyneverletmedown53 Ain't Going Down This Time, Even Tolls Love Rock and Roll
John Campbell is one of my favourites. Cool vid.
Thanks Dale
Jessie Ed Davis and Ry Cooder should be on the list
Ry Cooder needs a video all to himself actually! I loved him when I was a kid!
It's no surprise that Ry was chosen to do the discomforting soundtrack for "Southern Comfort"! Another great slide player deserving a mention in this category is John Mooney.
@@evergladesrhythmLet us know when the video comes out!
Awesome video
Thanks for watching!
Reminds me of Southern Culture on the Skids. Saw them play several times in small clubs in the early 90s, hillbilly, swampy, surf, and a lot of fried chicken.
Sounds great!
Thanks. Great video. You have an incisive perspective swamp guitar. I love Slim Harpo and "King Bee".
Yes, Slim Harpo is a legend. Glad you found the channel!
Though I never played it, this is one of the styles of music I really like. One day, I met a sax player with whom I played in a band for some time. When he had listened to me playing, he said that he could hear that I was no doubt listening a lot to Tony Joe White. Well, how big a compliment can you get ? Besides, I never tried playing any TJW song : I play fingerstyle most of the time. Very nice video !!! Greetz from Belgium.
Greetings! Glad you found the channel.
Bo Didley is also in the garage rock world. Probably an influence on Buddy Holly, but certainly on me.😊🎵💕🎸
Enjoyed the video. Thanks. intodown
Glad you enjoyed it.
Been a swamp rock fan ever since l heard Green River as a 14 year old. Still a favorite. And l always loved TJW.
JJ Cale is the main man, influenced and taught so many Legends around the world.
Agreed.
ANIT NO swamp music IN jOKELAHAOMA dude
Wow, I think I may have found a guitar RUclipsr that's in tune with what I was just playing a moment ago. The computers, they listen....anyway, thanks for sharing your expertise in this area. I feel like this is guitar language that I alredy stumbled upon but listening to where a lot of this came from is super eye-opening. Its crazy you know when you play something, it sounds familiar yet you're CERTAIN you'd never heard the song before once presented with it? I have that same feeling from watching this and realizing that there is some osmosis learning if you're always half-listening to and for music wherever you are.
Glad you found the channel!
Hey. I appreciate your appreciation of swamp rock. On your outro artwork there is that big, bad and mean lookin' gator waitn' to chomp, chomp, down on whatever unfortunate soul - like "granny" that comes within reach. Tony Joe White wrote and performed this great classic. I also love the version Elvis did. Stay safe - out there in the swamp.
Haha thanks man.
Really great, history's, playing, sound, swampy guitar..fun and informative. For unknown reasons, (other than a flashback) Leslie West came to mind.
Thank you I appreciate that. I'm making a playlist of all these great suggestions (which I'll share soon)
Nice! I've been trying to find a good channel for this style for some time. Love that guitar! 🐊
Thanks, I’m glad you found the video.
I am just starting to explore swamp rock, as I am starting to learn slide
Wow!! What beautiful tone you have! How did you get to it? Thanks
Thank you so much. There’s not short answer to that…
I simply have to say, you have grate manner, a way that is both humble and authoritative. I really appreciate your posts. I’m a rockabilly, rock n roll Guitarest. Can you do a top 10 of this genre? Eddie, Gene, Cuck, Cliff Gallup, Scotty More, to get you started. ❤
Great idea!
Don't forget those Skynyrd boys with the song Swamp Music. I can't say that I have a favorite swamp rock player. So many great ones to choose from. But it's always been one of my favorite guitar styles.
Enjoyed your playing. You nailed it.
Thank you I appreciate!
Very Cool Thanks for posting this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Fantastic! Would you do a lesson about Amos Moses? What kind of P90s do you use? Thanks!
Hi Thomas! Actually they were custom-made for the guitar 🎸 🔥
Try Justin Johnson. One of the best. He has plenty of videos on RUclips.
Justin is awesome!
I am a blues player 45 years :-) Id forgotten Tony Joe White ,,,,,,,,thanks for reminding me and thanks for the Swamp Video really enjoyed it , wonderful thing about guitar Blues theres ALWAYS more to learn
SILAS HOGAN, SWAMP DOGG, THE SWAMPERS, Ry Cooder s st on SOTHERN COMFORT (1981) 🇫🇮
That was great❤
Glad you found the video.
I never even heard of this I'm digging it. Thanks 🎉
So glad you like it!
The wall..by john fogerty..fav swamper..
I actually met Stoffal's son at Moholoholo like 9 years ago! That place is amazing! Keep up the good work 🤙🏻
Good ole Roy Clark,,, You mention Jerry Reed, I remember seeing a lot of great pickers but Jerry and Roy were a couple of the most entertaining and awe inspiring, and I'm not a fan of country lol. I just love guitar... Back in '76 I started high school, I remember friends being a little shocked I was playing note for note. Then when EVH came out, it took me about a week to learn most of the album. Eruption took me the longest, cause I thought I was cheating, having to use my right hand, as my left hand couldn't reach lol. So for more than a year I thought I was always doing it wrong, lol. I remember the look on peoples face playing house parties lol. I could barely look away from playing, but when I did it almost scared me having so many eyes on me lol... First time it happened I faced my drummer buddy lol. but I could only have been 16 or 17 yrs old. lol...
That's back when we felt like we have a world wide open for anything we wanted to do. Then government agencies were created basically taxing with rules to be fined by if not followed to the "t"... We see it limiting businesses and inventions today, but no one would know that unless you remember the 60's and 70's... Even music isn't free like it used to be... and I don't mean money lol. Nothing about playing guitar meant you got money lol...
do you laugh a lot? kidding.
@@michaelmisczuk1188 Of course I do, LMFAO !!!
My favourite swamp rock song has always been Born On The Bayou. When I was just a little boy (pun intended) I knocked over a bookshelf playing guitar along with it on a broom stick.
Elvin Bishop comes to mind as well.
@@_Peremalfait Yeah , Elvin Bishop for sure
Cool- I'm making a playlist of all these great suggestions (which I'll share soon)
@@evergladesrhythm EGR,
I look forward to hearing your list , Don't forget Slim Harpo !
swamp rock is criminally underated rock genres of all time
Love that guitar!
Same
Yes- its a one of a one-of-a-kind Mojzis
Always loved CCR’s swamp rockers… particularly Green River. The sound they get is so authentically ‘swamp’ I was genuinely surprised to find out they weren’t Born on the Bayou at all… but in El Cerrito CA!
Its true.
Green River is a song about a river where they were from.
@ yes, I did read that the song was based on Putah Creek by Winters, California… also a soda pop flavour called ‘Green River’!
JJ Cale! Been one of my all-time favorites for decades.
Same
I like his selection (and mention of Lightnin'). It's one thing to be able to play licks as tasty as this, but actually being one of the artists to develop them is something else.
Exactly. I've always been fascinated by the innovators.
the great Steve Cropper
Legend!
Amazing guitarist
Swamp rock - Justin Johnston
Blue - Johnny Winters
Johnny is number 1 2 3 and 4..all others follow.
Howlin' Wolf and his main man Hubert Sumlin. I cannot get swampier than that.
Of course. I'm making a playlist of all these great suggestions (which I'll share soon)
Tony Joe: Rainy Night in Georgia. Blue-cool!
That dominant 7th literally sounds like swamp water flowing around cypress trees.
Haha.
Great video. People like Jerry Reed get snubbed way too often and it's good to see these guys get some recognition.
Yeah he's very cool.
I think I read that Leon Russell helped coin the name of swampers to describe this type of music and the muscle Shoals team of Music Ian’s
Makes sense.
Tony Joe White - you got that right.
Yep
What a great video. Love that style. 👍🏻🇺🇸 It’s about as American as it gets.
Glad you enjoyed it
The Swampers!
Thx to everyone in the comments who offered so many awesome artist suggestions. And thank you so much for this artist overview, Darren. If you were to suggest the simplest minimum/ideal gear setup for Swamp Rock, what would it be?
That’s a good idea for a video actually. Let me think on it.
A Princeton Reverb and some sort of semi-hollow electric guitar, perhaps....
Crazy Cajun Cakewalkband song by american indian band REDBONE on the album Redbone 1970. The guitarists Tony Bellamy and Lolly Vegas had the first bad ass swamp sound. Also Witch Queen of New Orleans and many others had that swamp vibe.
Thanks- I'm making a playlist of all these great suggestions (which I'll share soon)
Don't forget about some local favorites, "Pot Liquor"
These songs may be enjoyable to listeners looking for long ago or overlooked gems that have a swampy flavor; The Tragically Hip's " New Orleans is sinking" and Don Harrison Band’s "Sixteen Tons".
Jerry Reed, my ever Hero of the American country music. I never realized he was thought of that way, as a Swamp Rock guitarist. Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and (much later) Kris Kristofferson, those were my heroes after Jerry Reed!
I am a jazz piano player, but I can play other music as well. I have always like this type music. I did not know that there was a specific name for it! ‘Swamp Rock is new terminology for me, but I like this music just the same. I use many of these dominant 7th ideas when I am improvising over a blues progression. Especially those double stop ideas, that you mentioned. A heavy weight jazz piano player named Ray Bryant uses some these concepts in his fine playing.
Glad you found the video. Our pianist (Everglades Rhythm) Rob, is a legend, he has that classic boogie-woogie thing down.
Don Leady (Tailgators) is deep in the swamp.
Omar and the Howlers
Love those guys. I think he's back in business too. He was battling some seriously bad health problems for awhile but from what I've heard he's better now. I met Omar's former drummer years ago. He was performing with Dale Watson at the time.
@@hog7203 nice
Nice video
Thanks for watching!
Lowell George?
The sound is very familiar to me but I have never heard it named as such. Billy Gibbons deserves mention as someone who drew heavily on swamp-influenced riffs.
For sure.
Keith Richards Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Nice!
Tony Joe White is the MAN. "Even Trolls Love Rock And Roll" is a hoot. And? Jerry REED NEVER even came close to the absolute perfection of Amos Moses playing live. The Studio version is much funkier than any of the live versions I have heard.
Yeah the studio version is super clean
A very swampy looking guitar you have there.
Isn’t it? It’s a Mojzis guitar- one of a kind- absolutely exquisite. It deserves its own video! Very swampy indeed
I'm a sucker for Magic Slim. Not sure if he fits in here but some of his riffs and rhythms are very similar but more bluesy.
Yep, there's a ton of blues cross over.
Think you should have mentioned the importance of tremolo and vibrato to the genre. Both built into amps and pedal versions. Also my vote for Lonnie Mack. Good intro though.
Yeah you’re right!
I like to do born on the bayou in drop d and use a D7 then you can get really down low with the e string tuned down.
Nice
Guitar Gable on Excello, re-released by Ace Records was my first introduction to the genre, I'd heard it before from other bands but not made the connection to the Gulf Coast.
Interesting- you’re not the first to mention Excello
Their roster of artists @@evergladesrhythm ... is swampy par excellence, Silas Hogan, Lonesome Sundown, Slim Harpo, Tabby Thomas all of whom and more were well served by Ace Records compilation and monograph LP's in the 1980's. When it come to more modern stuff Tony Joe White's excellent "Hoodoo" oozes hot and moist out of my speakers.
Man, those P90s sound fantastic
Thanks!