LOVE POLICE PRESENT
Direct from Louisiana,
101% pure Swamp Pop with
TOMMY McLAIN
featuring C.C. ADCOCK
ARRIVING NEXT WEEK!
SUPPORTS JUST ANNOUNCED!
LOZZ BENSON plays The Great Club
OPELOUSAS – Kerri Simpson, Alison Ferrier and Anthony Shortte’s award-winning swamp-soaked blues band – play Brunswick Ballroom and Memo Music Hall
MOHAIR SLIM – revered 3PBS DJ (BLUE JUICE) spins the tunes at Brunswick Ballroom and Archies Creek
LORETTA MILLER (Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes, JazzParty, Loretta Miller & Ruby Jones)
plays Archies Creek
“With Tommy you are going to hear a man singing from his soul, a beautiful beautiful man. He’s one of the great great unsung heroes of American vocalizing, and he still sounds as good as he did when he did cut ‘Sweet Dreams’ in 1966.”
– ELVIS COSTELLO
“Tommy McLain has just made one of the greatest records you’d ever imagine. My friend C.C. Adcock did a great job as producer. It’s an absolute masterpiece.” – ELVIS COSTELLO
Tommy McLain – “I Ran Down Every Dream (feat. Elvis Costello)” (Official Audio)
Tommy McLain is a leading proponent of a style of music known as Swamp Pop. “Swamp” because it comes from the bayous of Louisiana; “Pop” because in the late ’50s and early ’60s, it was the local pop music. Indeed, McLain was one of the few Swamp Pop artists to have national and international chart success – his 1966 cover of Don Gibson’s ‘Sweet Dreams’ was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic and saw him touring the States with the likes of the Byrds and the Yardbirds.
Inspired by the New Orleans R&B of Fats Domino and with deep roots in local Cajun culture, Swamp Pop was a regional Louisiana sensation (extending into adjoining South East Texas) that had an influence on other local artists, from bluesmen like Slim Harpo and Lazy Lester (and later The Fabulous Thunderbirds) to subsequent swamp-stomping sensation Tony Joe White, and, ultimately, on international artists, from the Rolling Stones to the Band, and from Robert Plant to McLain’s recent duet partner Elvis Costello.
Tommy McLain will be accompanied on his tour by the producer of I Ran Down Every Dream, guitarist C.C. ADCOCK. While 30 years Tommy’s junior, Adcock is the man put together and led the band Lil Band O Gold, helping McLain and other local legends, including the late great Warren Storm, to all enjoy a late career revival.
A Louisiana music great and occasional young gun Swamp Pop solo artist in his own right, Adcock is a man about who Brian Wise of Rhythms magazine and 3RRR has said, “I have always thought that C. C. is the reincarnation of Elvis Presley but that he just has not met his Colonel Tom Parker yet.”
11 Years since Lil Band O Gold’s last Australian tour, TOMMY McLAIN & C.C. ADCOCK are set to undertake their first Australian tour as a duo this May. Fans can expect the living, breathing embodiment of more than 60 years of classic Swamp Pop. The pair will perform at the BLUES ON BROADBEACH as well as headline shows in SYDNEY, MELBOURNE and ARCHIE’S CREEK.
After Four Decades, the Swamp-Pop Singer Tommy McLain Rises Again – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Elvis Costello Collabs With Tommy McLain – Rolling Stone
Swamp Poppa Tommy McLain to Release First Album in Over 40 Years – American Blues Scene
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TOMMY MCLAIN FEATURING C.C.ADCOCK AUSTRALIAN TOUR MAY 2023
MAY 2023
Wed May 17 – THE GREAT CLUB, SYDNEY
General on sale – https://musicboozeco.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/dbdecdcf-dc9b-46e6-ae4b-c9f3fef9baca?preview=638a03a3-95b8-44b6-9145-ccfa218c5656
Wed May 24 – BRUNSWICK BALLROOOM, MELBOURNE, VIC
General on sale – https://moshtix.com.au/v2/event/tommy-mclain/149857
Fri May 26 – MEMO MUSIC HALL, ST KILDA, VIC
General on sale – https://www.trybooking.com/CGGGW
Sat May 27 – ARCHIE’S CREEK HOTEL, ARCHIE’S CREEK, VIC
General on sale – https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?embed&eid=1023961
Also playing BLUES ON BROADBEACH https://bluesonbroadbeach.com/
All info at https://www.lovepolice.com.au/tours2023/tommymclain
