The Classic Tunes Music online oldies music store located in the southern Louisiana selling authentic vinyl records of greatest hits of swamp pop music and songs.

1. Swamp Pop Music – In Search Of The Rhythm
Music has been a prime voice of expressing love and longing, but no other than swamp pop
music does it better. It is a form of music developed in the southern region of Louisiana by
Cajun musicians during the 1950s and 1960s. It is characterized by highly emotional,
lovelorn lyrics, strong rhythm and blues backbeat. No one can forget the distinct intense
sometimes over the top emotion with which the swamp pop songs, rocking ballads of love
and longing were played by the musicians. Although the art seems to have lost in time,
there are some stores and radio stations dedicated to swamp, playing the latest and the
greatest hits of this high intensity music genre.
Although swamp music saw many national hits in the 1950s and 1960s, today this music
form is almost forgotten. Some of the veteran artists still play for select group of fans in
some of the clubs in and around New Orleans but not for long. Younger musicians aren’t
producing enough forcing us to heavily rely on oldies music stores and few select internet
only radio stations. It’s sad that such energetic and lively music form is moving towards
extinction.
There are some online oldies music stores selling authentic vinyl records of greatest hits
of swamp music songs like the Classic Tunes Music store. Most of the radio stations are also
located in the southern Louisiana. The online stores offer relatively wider variety of swamp
albums to choose from with some of the greatest national hits like Jimmy Clanton's "Just A
Dream" (1958), Warren Storm's "Prisoner's Song" (1958) and many more. Some of the

2. stores even offer digitalized CDs of different hits making it possible to play these songs on
modern music players. But if you want to see a live performance you will need to visit one
of the bars or restaurants in New Orleans where swamp pop music artists perform live.
Although the genre began a slow decline many devoted fans still go to various swamp pop
music festivals held in southeast part of Texas and south Louisiana as well as nightclubs
where artists play regularly. I personally am a great fan of this genre and continuously try
to explore new resources to find rare swamp songs and not just the hits. I have been fairly
successful in my conquest whenever I could find an online store like Classic Tunes Music.