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Miller's Crowley studio for Nashville's Excello label between 1955 and 1965 and defined by Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, Lazy Lester and Silas Hogan — languid mid-tempo shuffles and slow 12/8 at 70-100 BPM, a single tremolo-tinged guitar, amplified cupped harmonica, brushed or cardboard-box percussion, prominent tape slapback and echo, and a laconic half-spoken nasal vocal delivery.", "recipe": "classic North American mid-1950s swamp blues, functional Song, blues electric branch, tropical song functional song, regional distorted rock indonesian psychedelia thai psychedelic. thick, breath veiled tone, wide pitch sway, interlocked note trading. reed pearwood marine band tradition brass traditional harmonica, marshall plexi amp British rock amp swamp ash ash mahogany single coil electric guitar, marshall plexi amp British rock amp alder ernie ball slinky electric bass, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, tambourine orch. dry but alive 1948-1965 indie-commercial early tape us small. passive ribbon, tube pre, German tube console, vari-mu, Pultec passive program EQ. tape 15ips.", "recipe_chars": 707, "score": 308.072, "config": { "traditions": [ "swamp_blues", "indonesian_psychedelia", "thai_psychedelic" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "oscillating_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "scottish_gaelic_taladh_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed", "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_nasal_twang", "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated", "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony", "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_connemara_unaccompanied", "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_thai_7_equal_step", "voice_processing_chain": 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