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Artists :: Swamp Dogg
Swamp Dogg
Entertainment Weekly called soul/R&B singer/songwriter Swamp Dogg a one of a kind musical genius. Hes also been called a misfit, eccentric and a rowdy outsider of soul. (Washington Post). In a career spanning nearly 60 years, and more than 30 albums (many self-produced), Swamp Dogg has focused on songs about the life and struggles of the little guy, in pointed, often humorous, reflections on the ills of society. He cut his first singles as Little Jerry Williams in the mid-1950s and by the 1960s recorded his breakthrough hit, Youre My Everything. By the late-60s/early-70s as Jerry Williams, he was an in-demand songwriter/producer for a wide range of artists including Gene Pitney, Gary U.S. Bonds, The Drifters, Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles, and was the first African-American staff producer to be hired by Atlantic Records. But he decided to follow his own path and Swamp Dogg was born, writing, what the Washington Post called, Ragged, politically charged protest funk that matched the roughest edges of Sly and the Family Stone and early Parliament-Funkadelic. Swamp Doggs first album of his own material, Total Destruction to Your Mind, included an early anti-consumerist statement, Synthetic World. He continued to write social commentary in song, from God Bless America for What?, Fuck the Bomb, Call Me Ni**er, We Need a Revolution, Stop the DrugsBleeding is America and They Crowned an Idiot King.. This is his first appearance in New York since 2009.
Listed to Public Radio Internationals interview with Smap Dogg.
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