Swamp Dogg
Love, Loss, And Auto-tune
In 1970 the Southern soul music maverick Jerry Williams, Jr. made the most radical move of his career. Frustrated with music business politics Williams reinvented himself as Swamp Dogg, an irreverent anti-hero smashing the conventions of commercial R&B music. Swamp Dogg's debut release 'Total Destruction To Your Mind' featured a post-apocalyptic take on the Muscle Shoals' sound, with lyrics inspired by the revolutionary politics and psychedelic drugs of the late '60s. The music on 'Total Destruction To Your Mind' stood worlds apart from the formulaic pop tunes Williams started cutting in 1954 under the name Little Jerry, and Swamp Dogg hasn't looked back since. Now, nearly fifty years after his debut release, Swamp Dogg stands on the precipice of another radical reinvention. His latest creation is titled 'Love, Loss, And Auto-Tune', a nine song collection featuring production by Poliça's Ryan Olson. 'Love, Loss, And Auto-Tune' finds Swamp Dogg's bluesy southern soul colliding head-on with 21st century electronic music production techniques. The reference to Auto-Tune in the title is not incidental, the album's sound is built around Swamp Dogg's experimentation with the ubiquitous vocal processor. While Auto-Tune has become a fixture of the modern pop music landscape, this is Swamp Dogg's first major exploration of the device.