"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" is an American #country and pop song recorded by #FreddyFender. It is considered by many to belong to the #swampPop idiom of #southLouisiana and #southeastTexas that had such a major musical impact on Fender.
"Right away, I bought me a through train ticket
Riding across Mississippi clean
And I was on that midnight flier out of Birmingham
Smoking into New Orleans"
Pure joyous Cajun swamp pop from Louisiana, Johnnie Allan 'Promised Land'
#cajun #louisiana #swamppop #neworleans
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#tommymclain #zydeco #swamppop #swamprock #cajun #musicsky
Name a #genre of #music you have just discovered
#new or #old
#swamppop #swamprock
or #swampboogie
#polksalad #tonyjoewhite
#blueskymusic
founded in 1950's Acadiana region of south Louisiana by young Cajuns and Creoles, it combines New Orleans–style rhythm and blues, country!
"Wasted Days and Wasted Nights" is an American #country and pop song recorded by #FreddyFender. It is considered by many to belong to the #swampPop idiom of #southLouisiana and #southeastTexas that had such a major musical impact on Fender.
Dr. John - Babylon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOls...
#drjohn #babylon #1969 #bayou #funk #psychedelic #cajun #swamppop #swamprock
"I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship" by The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, 1968
🎧 #musicsky #country #countryrock #swamppop #psychedelicrock #outsidermusic #60smusic #1960smusic
I first heard this song when David Bowie covered it on his 2002 Heathen album. It's a real experience to hear the original.
... and one of the not so minor #SwampPop guys, indeed he was more versatile than most of his peers - that's him on mouth harp (for those who might not know)
One of the minor #SwampPop guys (but they're all OK in my book)
Send me some lovin'
Send it, I pray ...
Little Richard (1957)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2R...
Flip to another cracker, #Lucille - cut in #NewOrleans - a classic slow rocker and one that a horde of later #SwampPop artists would take on board - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Your love for me will always be
Here to stay, so tenderly ...
Cookie And His Cupcakes (1958)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2No...
One of the #SwampPop classics, the band was based in #LakeCharles, #SouthWestLouisiana