Don rich swamp pop biography

A triple swamp pop music threat, Don Rich sings, writes songs and plays seven instruments. As popular and talented as the fifth-generation musician and lifelong Pierre Part resident is, he’s resisted his record label’s designation of him as the king of swamp pop.

“I asked my label, ‘Why are y’all calling me the king of swamp pop, when you still have all those legends out there?’ ” Rich said.

“We still have Van Broussard, Tommy McLain, Johnnie Allen, T.K.

Hulin,” Rich said of his swamp pop predecessors. “It’s hard for me to get used to, because I’m just an average guy, but the label just titled me that and it just stuck with me.”

Years ago, Rich and Broussard, the classic swamp pop singer-guitarist from Prairieville, had a good-natured disagreement backstage about who was more popular.

“Van said, ‘I just want to let you know, they come to see you here.’ I said, ‘Bull.

They come to see you, too.’ ‘No, no, no. They come see you.’ I was flattered when he told me that.”

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