Swamp Baby was a Canadian rock band from

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, active in the 1990s."Coming out of the past and into the Clear". ''

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'', August 31, 1995. They are most noted for collaborating with Michael Turner and

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on the music for the film ''

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''; their song "Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?" won the

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for

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at the

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in 1996. The band members were vocalist Steve Cowal, guitarists Randall Bergs and Ërno Vlasics, bassist Rick Sentence and drummer Jim Mattachione."Swamp Baby: Playing at a theatre near you". ''

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'', September 9, 1996. They released two albums, ''Swamp Baby'' (1990) and ''Rock Heavy Ripple'' (1995), on the independent label First Stone Productions; Moore was the producer of both albums. Although the band's own music followed a

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style that typically saw them compared to Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show,

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and

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, several of the band's members had prior experience in punk rock bands, leading Moore to ask them to help compose and produce the music for the film. They played all of the film's songs, although lead actor

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performed lead vocals in lieu of Cowal."Putting the loco in Hard Core Logo: Headstones singer adds a punk sneer to rock 'n' road story". ''

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'', October 17, 1996. The band did not record or release any further material after the ''Hard Core Logo'' soundtrack.

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