Swamp Dogg
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"Whistle Dixie Out Your Ass": Swamp Dogg
Report and Interview by John Morthland, Rolling Stone, 15 October 1970
SAN FRANCISCO – Swamp Dogg had just finished taping a four-song set for a quadraphonic television show, and now everyone was up in the control ...
Review by John Morthland, Creem, June 1971
Swamp Dogg dont fuck around. Besides writing or co-writing (many with U.S. Bonds) eight of the albums 10 songs, he arranged produced, played piano, did ...
Profile and Interview by Bob Merlis, Words & Music, August 1972
"I'M STILL paying dues I don't have to pay," says producer-arranger-musician-singer-promotion man Jerry Williams, Jr. on the eve of his thirtieth birthday. "I should have ...
Interview by Roger St. Pierre, New Musical Express, 5 April 1975
"WHERE ELSE BUT in America could a person own a Rolls-Royce, an Eldorado Mark IV, a Mercedes limousine, an estate in Long Island, an apartment ...
Swamp Dogg: Have You Heard This Story??
Review by Gene Sculatti, Creem, June 1975
IN ONE SENSE Jerry Swamp Dogg Williams suffers from the same ailment which all but debilitated acts like Slade or Roxy or (until recently) Randy ...
Retrospective and Interview by Joe McEwen, Black Music, December 1975
Joe McEwen talks to soul's most successful failure... ...
Bootsy's Rubber Band a snappy little number
Report by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 1 May 1976
KEEP YOUR ears pimmed back for Bootsy's Rubber Band, a nifty little album soon to be released by WEA. ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 10 February 1997
"If you know the extension of the party with whom you wish to speak, dial it and stop wasting our time! If you have money ...
Cover Story: A Dogg with Attitude
Special Feature by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 22 November 2000
How a pint-sized pooch danced for his record label. ...
Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Guardian, 15 June 2007
"WHEN I FELT like I needed profanity, I used profanity," Swamp Dogg begins. And as he cheerfully swears his way through his 50 years in ...
Swamp Dogg and the Revelations: City Winery, NYC
Live Review by Andy Schwartz, Rock's Backpages, 4 June 2010
IT WAS EARLY May, the gig was two weeks away, and things weren't looking good for the star of the show, Jerry Williams Jr. a/k/a ...
Swamp Dogg: The White Man Made Me Do It
Review and Interview by Gavin Martin, Uncut, January 2015
IN 1970, JERRY WILLIAMS was a writer, performer and producer, whose clients included Gene Pitney and Doris Duke — for whom he masterminded the deep ...
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