Jerry Williams (formerly known as Little Jerry Williams) has been knocking out bizarre R&B records for 48 years under the name Swamp Dogg. Since his 1970 debut on Canyon, Total Destruction to Your Mind, he’s taken his music down some weird back roads: a black-liberation song with an admitted Ku Klux Klan member on banjo (“Call Me Nigger”), a tender ballad about a man whose son is engaged to a hooker (“Or Forever Hold Your Peace”), and entire albums devoted to country and calypso—Dogg claims his version of John Prine’s “Sam Stone” would have been a hit if only Al Kooper hadn’t released his recording of the track around the same time.…
Jerry Williams (formerly known as Little Jerry Williams) has been knocking out bizarre R&B records for 48 years under the name Swamp Dogg. Since his 1970 debut on Canyon, Total Destruction to Your Mind, he’s taken his music down some weird back roads: a black-liberation song with an admitted Ku Klux Klan member on banjo (“Call Me Nigger”), a tender ballad about a man whose son is engaged to a hooker (“Or Forever Hold Your Peace”), and entire albums devoted to country and calypso—Dogg claims his version of John Prine’s “Sam Stone” would have been a hit if only Al Kooper hadn’t released his recording of the track around the same time.…