Tommy McLain

Tommy McLain is perhaps the last great artist from rock n rolls 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 Sweet Dreams Before I Grow Too Old and Try To Find Another Man are to this day considered cornerstones of the genre Hes been inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame twice earned a gold record for writing If You Dont Love Me Why Dont You Just Leave Me Alone for Freddy Fender and even appeared as himself in the 1975 Paul Newman thriller The Drowning Pool