''Swampblood'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band

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Musical style

The music of ''Swampblood'' encompasses

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, bluegrass,

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psychobilly Psychobilly is a rock music fusion genre that fuses elements of rockabilly and punk rock. It's been defined as "loud frantic rockabilly music", it has also been said that it "takes the traditional countrified rock style known as rockabilly, ram ...

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and

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Reviews

Andrew Gilstrap of popmatters.com rated the album at 7/10, commenting, "Swampblood finds the band in something of a high-octane back-to-basics blues mode". Embo Blake of HybridMagazine noted that the band, in this album, "maintain dtheir distinctive sound and superb musical quality".

Track listing

#"Dawn" – 0:34 #"Old Spur Line" – 3:47 #"Hellwater" – 2:12 #"Easter Flesh" – 2:16 #"Swampblood" – 3:10 #"Dusk" – 0:16 #"Cheat the Hangman" – 1:36 #"Born Again Again" – 2:18 #"The Deadenin'" – 2:48 #"Down and Out" – 3:11 #"Jimblyleg Man" – 2:39 #"He Ain't Right" – 2:10 #"Angel Lust" – 1:55 #"Preachin' at Traffic" – 1:38 #"When I Die" – 1:14 #"Bright and Sunny South" – 1:02

Background information

''Swampblood'' is the third and final installment of Legendary Shack Shakers' "Tentshow Trilogy", which began with ''

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'' in 2004, and continued with ''

Pandelirium ''Pandelirium'' is the fifth studio album by American rock band Legendary Shack Shakers. Musical style The music on ''Pandelirium'' was described by AllMusic as a further departure from the Legendary Shack Shakers' established style than their p ...

'' in 2006. The subject matter of ''Believe'' was that of a

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, and of ''Pandelirium'' a

circus A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists, and unicyclist ...

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. The tent theme surrounding ''Swampblood'' is of a graveside funeral service.YepRoc Records

Personnel

* Col. J.D. Wilkes –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

, mouth harps,

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

organs In biology, an organ is a collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a common function. In the hierarchy of life, an organ lies between tissue and an organ system. Tissues are formed from same type cells to act together in a fu ...

, tape effects * Mark Robertson –

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, baritone guitars, bgvs * DavidLee –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Brett Whitacre –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

* Steve Mabee –

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, mixing ; Guests * Rich Gilbert – saw on "The Deadening" * Jordan Richter – additional engineering on "Born Again Again" * Paulie Simmons – drums on "Born Again Again" * Steve Latanation – shaker,

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are use ...

* Ward Stout –

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

* Fats Kaplan –

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

on "Born Again Again" * Kristi Rose – backing vocals on "Born Again Again" * Jack Irwin – piano and organ on "Born Again Again"

References

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