Tommy McLain
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Tommy McLain is perhaps the last great artist from rock ânâ rollâs pioneering first generation awaiting rediscovery. The signature swamp pop sound that he helped create spawned multiple national hits in the 1960s and inspired artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival, Little Feat, and Tony Joe White, among others. His best known songs - âSweet Dreams,â âBefore I Grow Too Oldâ and âTry To Find Another Manâ - are to this day considered cornerstones of the genre. Heâs been inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame (twice!), earned a gold record for writing âIf You Don't Love Me (Why Don't You Just Leave Me Alone)â for Freddy Fender, and even appeared - as himself - in the 1975 Paul Newman thriller The Drowning Pool.
