Album artwork for Love, Loss and Auto-Tune by Swamp Dogg

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. For fans of Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Gnarls Barkley, Curtis Mayfield.

LP - Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

LP+ - Limited Gold Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

Swamp Dogg

Love, Loss and Auto-Tune

Joyful Noise Recordings
Album artwork for Love, Loss and Auto-Tune by Swamp Dogg
CD

£12.99

Released 07/09/2018Catalogue Number

jnr269cd

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Swamp Dogg

Love, Loss and Auto-Tune

Joyful Noise Recordings
Album artwork for Love, Loss and Auto-Tune by Swamp Dogg
CD

£12.99

Released 07/09/2018Catalogue Number

jnr269cd

Learn more

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. For fans of Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Gnarls Barkley, Curtis Mayfield.

LP - Black Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.

LP+ - Limited Gold Vinyl housed in Gatefold Sleeve with Download.