..well....SwampVoodoo is NOW on.... CD Baby... itunes.... amazon.com... cd universe ......
an so on an so on...an early reports indicate a sale or 2 a them thin's called CD's
Slick Black Truck Drivin' Man-gitar and low volume muttering...
Well here tell a bit bout ol' Slick.....born in an unknown region of the swampland,Slick never knew who his real mama was nor his papa.The man who he thought was his papa turned out to be a traveling salesman who had traded a broom for ol' Slick when out on one a his rounds and then instead a selling ma a broom he sold her ol Slick,kinda like a broom but not...well Slick grew up in the ways a the swamp and learned how to talk by the age a 5 and then started on a life long pursuit a truck drivin' fornicatin' and spreddin lil' slick's all over the place...he raised quite a bit a kin and they all turned out.....well not all good...I mean like outlaw's.....but it gave ol' Slick material for some tales and he done wrote those down whilst truck drivin' like a man....now in a bid for cash and retirement he put'em down on a spinnin' object and so's ya'all can hear'em and so on.Now he is a bit allusive being that he has lawmen about him so ya may not be seein' him in public alot but....you can sure hear him....oh he learned the gitar whilst waitin' in the tree with Daisy May,only problem was in order ta not scare off the gators he had to play with no strings....it's hard he says getting used to'em being on..they get in the way he says...
he met the guys in the band in reform school.......(they don't want nothin said bout them....n' ya know...they all done gone back....)
an well folk there here is a story ta be told...most a the band done an done got themselves in a slice a somthin' an aint no longer.... an the sad fact is we done gonna miss'em all' but we done got sum new guys just re-released from previous engagements an they be with us now..so's here be the rap sheet:
Slick Black-/-guitar an low volume mutterances
T-Time-/-thumping ground vibrations...
Dapper Dan-/-voodoo beat stick....
Gato-/-sax at the gates a hell....
Nick the Gator from hell....(just cause ya gotta have a gator....)
all lyrics by...Slick Black
music by SwampVoodoo..
the crowd at SwampVoodoo's last show......
.......................NEW LOGO.....like there was an old one)
Ol' Slick's 67 peterbilt..or better known thru-out as ol'Betty.....
the cameras were rollin' an caught the SwampVoodoo folk takin' a lil' nap durin' break...
Influences
drink and debauchery..
alligator shoes....
the peterbilt factory
this is nice
.. the gamblin man countin' his coin..an gettin' ready ta roll the dice one more time...
Sounds Like
Alrighty then.... Folk's I need ta bend ya'lls ear for a small spell...
ya see it be ta the similar ta this....
SwampVoodoo needs a bit a help...I have ta try an keep the boy's in the band from goin' back ta the life last led an well...it aint easy...I mean those riches are hard ta beat...but least wise..what we..(alright me..yes..me..Slick Black truck drivin' man...)what i be in the way a needin' is ta keep these boy's in the band...that be employed in the band an not elsewhere's....
so's here' the pitch..we are up on some a them websites that sell music..an no i aint askin' no one ta buy anythin'...just maybe like a nice word spread about us..that is i'm assumin' ya'll like swampvoodoo...but i do remember that woman who said "ya know what happens when ya assume..ya make an...ass a u n me...never could put it right but hey...any ol' way..spread the word..i gotta get these boy's workin'...i thank ya for the time.....
your devoted truck drivin' man..Slick Black...
An ya we still sound liken ta a drunken mumble uttered inside a da pearlly gates a hell....
That there is a picture a Slick Black at birth...do ya wonder now where the lyrics come from....eh?
Slick's mama showin' some SwampVoodoo love...right to the heart...
this was the photo slick's ma gave him and said it was his papa..it wasn't until later slick found out that it was really the door to door salesman who sold slick to his mama instead a her buyin' a broom..life huh......
this is what the New York City fella saw when he did acid in the village
never cut off the hand that roll's the dice...unless you provide a really nice pillow first...
...hum..
this is what it was like when we had to register these here song's....it was rough but it's done...they belong ta us now..always did..always will....
swampvoodoo....
now just you look down a lil' ol' ways father an yup...that there is that there website...so go on now....ya get ya hear...there that would be...or here as it were....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/turbodream17/sets/72157622247499047/show/ that there up in the above is what they call a link ta some insider lookin's at the swampVoodoo lounge an them boys at..well what ever they done do.....they done say it be practice...but practice at what?????
So friends this most fine construction a wordage was put to us here at the swamp by a Very dear friend a SwampVoodoo, an a ol'Slick in the particular an it was so pretty we had ta share...so in her own words from the most demmented bunny...Ms.Evil Demmented Bunny..her take on SwampVoodoo...
How Do You Say It?
I love music. I love all kinds of music. The only thing I love more than music is story. I hate when I'm trying to tell someone about something amazing and lose all my ability to bring words to the page. I truly love the words and music of Swamp Voodoo. These guys are amazing; there's no style of music that they don't know. They know it all, cold. Cold, like it's their only style. They know everything Latin, everything burlesque, everything rockabilly, and everything else.
They spin out their stories in mini-epics, each having its own movements and flavors. The gritty mumbling of front man, Slick Black Truck Drivin' Man is almost an undercurrent in the smooth river of jazz or samba or two step. The sidemen are perfect together. You can almost see the club's stage lights glinting off Gato's sax as you listen to it weaving through the complex counterpoint between T-Time and Dapper Dan. The bass and drums work to make a story of their own.
All the members of the extended Black clan are represented in stories throughout the site. The Outlaw Man, Daisy May, Gerome. The New York City Woman that may or may not been seen by another relation. I love them all. How can I explain to those that have never heard these songs? If I said that a guy heard of LSD when he was three years old and moved to NYC in search of mind expanding experiences, would you think I had lost my mind? Or expanded it?
But again, the best part of this amazing experience is the story. The reading of the adventures of Slick Black and Ol' Betty cannot be fathomed. There cannot be many of the truck driving brotherhood who can have seen the sorts of things that Slick Black has seen. He has met those shimmering otherworldly types, and they have come bearing...whiskey.
So join me at www.myspace.com/swampvodoo or at www.swampvoodoo.com and see what I mean. I love Swamp Voodoo. I love the body moving rhythms that T-Time and Dapper Dan lay down. I love the smoke that emanates from Gato's sax and weaves right in with my soul. And I love the low voiced muttering of Slick Black. Yeah, and the alien whiskey.
pretty darn cool huh?................
ok...ok..ok..i know ya'll are thinkin'...ok here it is again something big or very cool or well ya know but this aint that at all...this here is 'very big an very cool...aint the same ...so check this out ...SwampVoodoo was on the air in germay...thats right Germany.....here is the link...if ya dare....
So this is really very cool...WCNI Radio DJ Brian who has been so kind in playin' a lil' SwampVoodoo on his show Twisted Roots Radio..(fittin' name an all for SwampVoodoo..)has bestowed the honor a pickin' our first record release as a top 6 pick for the month a Feb..the FAR 115 for 3rd. Coast Radio...now aint that just the coolest huh????
OK this is BIG....BIG I mean BIG....the lovely folks at WTUL..91.5 fm..New Orleans have put lil' ol' SwampVoodoo into their playlist an right at Mardi Gra's...then our friend Brian at WCNI 90.9 in Connecticut has put us on his show...we are very proud to be with these folk and hope for the good in it all...check'em out.....
so it's a picture a the boy's,an they bein' taken at 5 card stud by Slick himself..with a lil' help from his skinny friend
an who is this fine lookin'hunk a truck drivin' man hisself..
an this a course is the boy's right after church last saturday...
...did we tell ya'll we love ya.....
$$$$$.......this just in from a camera found at that there swamp near as can tell in that there area a ol'Daisy May...aint found no bodies but this might be Daisy May's shack.
then there was this an we just don't know but aliens stoppin in????
an then this here shockin'photogragh at the end a the roll..kinda like the last thing them folk saw...
might be gerome...shhhhhhh..........
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SO"S THIS IS BIG...........................really BIG......have we told we love ya'l...have we????
if'n ya care pour me one whilst ya be at it....ok...an stop lookin' at yer watch...I still got me some time......
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NEW NEW"S FLASH all a flashin'..........
...well..it has done happened...it would be seamin' that whilst T-Time was um..shall we say spendin' time developin' his better half...he was learnin' the mysterious art a that there world wide web thing an has done gone an put together proof of such a thing by devisin' something called a website an there we are....so it's so called.......swampvoodoo.com...very creative as for namin' an all....don't see no Slick Black in that there tittle but T-Time reassures me that it wasn't ta be workin' if'n i was ta get my way so's ta not start another clan war an ta not have ta find another ground thumpin' vibrational man ...well...ya can understand my givin' in....so's that is that....thank ya'all...
RECENT REVIEWS WE WAS REAL PROUD'A.......
Just in the latest
..the little woman an i were takin' our first vacation in 30 years ,an well i might admit we was excited...booked a little resort type place..it was wonderful an the misses an i were enjoyin' some beverages on the veranda when all a sudden from the room next door came this hauntingly bizarre sound..an then a sight i aint never seen before..the little woman got up in a trance an started ta dance all in circles an spewin' forth language a sailor would'a blushed at...i got up an tries ta calm her down ,but instead she done grabbed my arms an started flailin'em about an the next thing i knew we was in the bed all a restin' an smokin' a cigarette..we thanked them neighbors later on..they said ta thank the SwampVoodoo...we don't what that means but we did....
( Restorative Music For the Less Inclined Magazine....4-5-2067...)
..."one night Cleatus an me we was walkin on ta the gas station cause we done run outta gas an we heard this truck rumblin' up behind us ,so's we stuck out our thumbs an tried ta hitch an sure nuff it done pulled over an me an Cleatus jumped on in..the driver didn't say no words an there was this kinda weird music on his radio but it were of no mind ta worry.. an off we went..well bout half a mile inta it that driver hit them brakes an me an Cleatus was seein' this weird glow an as the truck stopped we jumped out an ran like ta hell..lookin' back all's we could see was a blue glow..that music never did leave ol' Cleatus an when i visit him in that place with them crazies all he done say is swampvoodoo over an over an over an over agin..poor ol' Cleatus.. ..( Music of the Psychologically Challenged Magazine...1-2-33..)
"well..it was last night ..late ..when ol'betsy started ta go inta labor n me an bertha went on out ta the barn an were all a helpin an such when the strangest a things started ta be happenin'..first outta nowhere came this music..kinda strange an swampy an then a bright glow started ta happen an then...well bertha an me still aint believin' it...but ol'betsy instead a givin' us a calf done gave berth ta some kinda alien hairdo thing..it came a poppin on out then just in a flash the music stopped the alien hairdo was gone an ol'betsy was just a layin' there like nothin' at all...we still aint believin' it..but there it is....
(Alien Birthing Magazine..The Rural Issue..8-8-2088)
Pictures by Bertha Norma May Jean Hatfield
"last week my brother an me was out drivin' the back roads an tuned inta this weird radio station playin' this weird story bout some lil' girl a killin gators an well my brother he done got transfixed an started swervin an then sounded like he was talkin in tongues..he done slammed the brake an pulled over an jumped out n ran off..aint heard of him since..but i listen ta that station all a the time now.... (Backroad Radio Abduction Magazine...2-2-1902)
"the family and i why we decided ta get us some fun an went out ta the local 509 an was gonna see us some music an this band from up the swamp..they was the band an well we spent nigh on 15.00 hard earned dollars an when we left didn't ask for it back so's we thought it ok...lil' missy even bought herself a record...
(local 509 review magazine ..5-5-1955)
"....couple a night's back me an Renfru was gettin' our way inta a store house an was prowlin' all round and was findin' some good stuff..we was loadin' the rig all happy an all bout our haul when all a sudden the lights started ta flicker inta on an then thru them loudspeakers came this sound an Renfru an me we hit the floor all a wigglin' an then them cops came an fore we could done be up an runnin' nabbed us an took us in...we done overheard 'em on the way in sayin' it was that swampvoodoo once agin...whats that mean.....
(Psycho Music Against Criminals Magazine.....7-7-1977)
"...we've had abducties in our lounge before and were quite entertained by their stories...and had found most of them to be polite..but once by accident we brought a whole group at once,this SwampVoodoo group...and well we had to send them back as soon as we could..they drained our reserve of liquor in the first 10 minutes..beware they are ......different....
...(Spaceship Lounge Entertainment by the Abducted Review Magazine...stardate-1-0009-90987-73563729-...0)
ol' slick thought this poster was for a datin' service....
NEWS FLASH........
...when ol'Slick is about ta receive a alien hairdo visit it starts liken ta this
an this is all that be left as it done leaves...
an this is what ol'Slick does right imediately after that..... alien Whiskey...ah..the finest a brew
SwampVoodoo...
What can ya say...we just don't fit nowhere..it's like goin to a AA meetin' drunk...not fittin ya know.....hell we been compared to zappa..? zappa..?i mean ok that would be cool but.....we we're told it was like a david lynch movie and we thought..thats cool too..but who really wants to be in a david lynch movie so...we don't know...we are having a hell of alot of fun and let's face it aint that what it's all about any old way...we are gonna do some thing and when we do.. well.. it'll be somethin'...hope ya'll enjoy this here music...i'd say we put our hearts in but that would require one and so....but we have a skeleton and that is cool and he even likes to go on stage with us and he don't charge..so...we got some new stuff on the way as soon as ol' Slick here gets the rig fired up and off to the song shop i a goin'......so for now until it aint now no mo' remember it aint safe in the swamp no mo'...n wear yer boot's....don't be Slick cause I am... see ya.........Slick Black Truck Drivin' Man
we had ta hire a new cook for this years bbq
an then we finally let some a our kin who'd been hangin' bout come on in ta the party
just some hangers on waitin' for some swamp friends
an that'd be daisy mays friends
the papa a the outlaw man
an his pretty wife.....
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an uncle waits very zen-like
one a the kinfolk refusin' ta let it go......
this here is one a the swampvoodoo folk seranadin'....
just an adorin' fan a the SwampVoodoo ...all a smilin' n happy waitin' ta see'em play.......
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Never had a bad trip to the swamp. I've come back with some bad hangovers but always had a great time gettin' 'em. Things are good here in the land of the Razorback. Glad to hear you're doing well.
Greetings from your neighbor to the north. Hadn't been by in a while and thunk I would take a little trip down the road of swamp psychodelia. I do hope things is groovy with you.
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