Swamp Dogg - Uncut And Classified 1A (1981)

Jerry Williams, Jr., AKA Swamp Dogg, is the singular most eccentric figure in soul music. Period. Writing minor hits for the likes of Gene Pitney, Tommy Hunt, Patti Labelle, The Commodores and Gary U.S. Bonds seemed to have run it's course in the sixties, at which time the liner notes for this album state "Swamp Dogg was born one mystical night in 1970. Born in the mind of an outwardly unassuming character who for the previous 28 years had masqueraded as Jerry Williams, Jr., an itinerant singer, writer and producer of little renown... Then came the night of the Dogg and the light of a New Day. Coming from a whole 'nother direction - Macon, Georgia, by way of a cerebral short-circuit - Swamp Dogg emerged with his "Total Destruction To Your Mind" album, the first of an occasional series of erratic but frequently sharp observations on the individual nature of the States and the state of its individuals. Unfortunately neither America nor the rest of the world were ready to be upbraided in so forthright a fashion, especially by a musician of no easily definable status. For whereas Jerry Williams, Jr. might have been type-cast as a regular soul singer, Swamp Dogg was no such animal. An eclectic beast, crossed between '50's R&B and blues, Southern white rock 'n' roll and the New Breed ideas of Sly Stone and George Clinton, the Dogg was an altogether unfamiliar mongrel whose music rarely fitted any known programming formula. As a rock encyclopedia commented in 1976, "Because of his healthy disregard for commercial trends he has not yet received widespread recognition, although he's becoming increasingly known for the powerful imagery in his songs.""

This album was recorded in March of '72 but was "too hot to handle at the time" and was shelved till it's eventual release in 1981.

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