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A Florida Band, Marty Good - http://www.myspace.com/swampbrothers check it out so your not confused as to whom your listening to. as for the rest of the info below is well done. 1. http://myspace.com/welcometotheswamp An American sludge metal / swamp metal band. Formed in early 2010, Swamp is a four member one-man-band consisting of the collective figments of the various musical imaginations of Stephen Hoffman, slowly and painstakingly integrated into a coherent musical form through excessive amplification, anal-retentive drum programming, and the lyrical genius gleaned from hours of extended screaming matches with mirrors. Swamp, playing out of Galesburg, Illinois and Indianapolis,...

Factory Records' avant-funk band Swamp Children initially shared members with A Certain Ratio before mutating into acclaimed latin jazz contenders Kalima in 1983, releasing four albums between 1986 and 2002. Swamp Children formed in Manchester, UK in 1980, around core members Ann Quigley (vocals), Tony Quigley (sax and bass), John Kirkham (guitar), Ceri Evans (keyboards and bass), Cliff Saffer (sax) and Martin Moscrop (drums). Although their close association with fellow avant-funksters A Certain Ratio lead many to assume that Swamp Children were merely an ACR splinter group, Swamp Children always pursued a more latin, bossa nova and jazz tinged agenda,...

The Swamp Rats released just a handful of singles during their brief existence. While the preponderance of the band’s recorded repertoire was cover versions, the Rats’ choice of material was rather special. Covering well known garage standards like “Louie Louie” and “Hey Joe”—along with more obscure cuts like The Sparkles’ “No Friend of Mine” and The Sonics’ “Psycho”—the Swamp Rats seem to have acknowledged the garage-rock genre while the phenomenon was still in vogue, fully five or six years before the music community at large recognized it via Lenny Kaye’s legendary Nuggets compilation. The Swamp Rats’ distillation of their fellow...