Why, he even has some country in him, and some great songwriting collaborators in Joe South and Gary U.S. Total Destruction to Your Mind is every bit as eclectic as it is electrifried, but despite the frequently surreal and cryptic lyrics Swamp Dogg belts out soul and the blues like a champion, and plays a great piano while he’s at it. But who knows? As for the horn-fueled “Dust Your Color Red,” I have no idea whatsoever what Swamp Dogg is talking about, or to be more accurate, testifying about.
Weird swamp song skin#
The very soulful “I Was Born Blue” posits a world in which Dogg is blue and the rest of the world has orange skin and green hair “Sal-A-Faster” is, I think, a hilarious testimonial to the wonders of LSD. No, there’s no doubt about it, Swamp Dogg is one of a kind.
If you have any doubts, check out his Christmas album, which boasts the wonderful title, “An Awful Christmas and a Lousy New Year.” Recorded at Muscle Shoals and Macon, Georgia with a bevy of incredibly talented session guys, the songs on Dogg’s 1970 debut LP Total Destruction to Your Mind are every bit as strange as the album’s cover, which shows Swamp Dogg in his underwear sitting on a pile of garbage. You understand what he did, you curse while making allowances for him but your love for him never diminishes.”ĭogg’s reinvention, which was apparently aided by an LSD trip, allowed him to turn his attention to, in his own words again, “Sex, niggers, love, rednecks, war, peace, dead flies, home wreckers, Sly Stone, my daughters, politics, revolution and blood transfusions (just to name a few),” without ever getting out of character. “So,” in his own words, “I came up with the name Dogg because a dog can do anything, and anything a dog does never comes as a real surprise if he sleeps on the sofa, shits on the rug, pisses on the drapes, chews up your slippers, humps your mother-in-law’s leg, jumps on your new clothes and licks your face, he’s never gotten out of character. In 1970, tired of playing “second banana” and biding his time as a “jukebox” for other people’s songs while getting screwed over in the royalties department in the process, the deep soul and R&B singer decided to reinvent himself. Let us, dear reader, turn to the strange case of Jerry Williams, aka Swamp Dogg.
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