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Tommy McLain

Tommy McLain, born on March 15, 1940 in Jonesville, Louisiana, and died on July 24, 2025 at the age of 85, was an iconic American musician of swamp pop, a style mixing R&B, country, rock and Cajun influences. A singer with a clear, moving tenor voice, he also played piano, drums, bass, fiddle and keyboards. From his childhood in Pineville, where his family settled six months after his birth, he sang at family parties, standing on a box to reach the microphone. At the age of five, he began playing bass and developed a passion for music, influenced by Little Richard, Fats Domino, H...