It's a style whose primary yardstick is earthiness.Īs the country-rock musicians of the "New South" got turned on to the country-soul emanating from places like Memphis and Muscle Shoals, they incorporated it into their music: the typical "swamp rock" song combines deep soul with raw country, gritty blues, and a danceable beat. In fact, "swamp rock" is a fairly narrow field of music (the result of the integration of rockabilly artists with the soul explosion of the mid-60s, aided by a heavy infusion of the gritty sub-genre known as "swamp blues) and also with a heavily rhythmic backbone that, at its loosest, could almost be described as funk. ![]() "Swamp Rock" is a genre that's often misunderstood confused by outsiders with the Cajun R&B stroll of "swamp pop" or, worse, merely regulated to describing songs about the swamps of the American South, from Louisiana to Florida. ![]() ![]() VA - Swamp Rock CD1+CD2+CD3+CD4 (A Butterboy Compilation)
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