“For us, we’re making a living at it and having fun doing it,” he continued. “They just enjoy listening to our music.” “Every where we play we get great crowds,” Storm said. In 2004, they revised the Cypress Band and continue touring today. The band broke up in 1984, but Storm and Tee continued to work together performing with other bands. The group had its own weekly television show on KADN and toured the country together for nearly 12 years. In 1980, Storm and fellow swamp popper Willie Tee formed The Cypress Band. He recently re-released “Country By Storm,” which he considers a greatest hits.
He is best known for songs “Lord I Need Somebody Bad Tonight,” “My House of Memories,” and his release of “Prisoner’s Song” and Mama Mama Mama (Look What Your Little Boy’s Done), which broke into the Billboard Hot 100.
He went on to perform solo and with the Lil Band O’ Gold and others groups. He began performing publicly in the early 1950s with Larry Brasso and the Rhythmaires. Storm grew up in Abbeville and started playing music at the age of 11 after learning to play drums and guitar from his father, a country and western musician. “I’ve been playing this music for 70 years and I will be doing it until I expire,” Storm said. Storm, who has been hailed as the Godfather of swamp pop,is a pioneer of the swamp pop musical genre. Tickets are $25 through Bon Ami Tours at 33 or 33. Hulin and the Cypress Band to the Strand Theatre at 3 p.m. The Louisiana Swamp Pop Revue will bring swamp pop music legends Warren Storm, Willie Tee, Tommy McClain, Jivin Gene, Charlene Howard, T.K.
That uniquely Louisiana sonic style known as swamp pop. JENNINGS - What do you get when you combine New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western and Cajun music with rock and roll?
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