I feel phenomenal and I don't want a bunch of old people around me," Williams says. "It was great because I'll be 78 in July, but I keep forgetting my age. Created in the 1950s and early 1960s by teenaged Cajuns and black Creoles, it combines New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and traditional French Louisiana musical influences. On his latest album, the 77-year-old artist collaborates heavily with a younger generation of musicians, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver ( whom he's previously worked with), Jenny Lewis and Poliça's Channy Leaneagh and Chris Bierden. Swamp pop is a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south Louisiana and an adjoining section of southeast Texas. It will further showcase the evolution of this band’s much loved sound part modern rock, part classic rock, part southern rock, part country, and part blues.
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The new album on the horizon is full of good music- damn good music. "I wanted to be able to talk about sex, religion, politics I wanted to sing about everything." Swamp is very pro-American and shows support for our troops with their song Heroes for Hire. "I needed an alter ego because I wanted to say some things," he says. Then in 1970, he started going by his current moniker and presenting himself as an outsider soul artist. Mermaid Shows and the Gulf of Mexico Original Florida swamp rock with authentic country sensibilities.
In the '60s, he released a string of R&B records under his given name, Jerry Williams. 7 PM - Cottondale Swamp is a Florida Swamp Rock, Southern Americana, and Outlaw Country Band from Florida. Swamp Dogg's first song came out in 1954, when he was just 12-years-old it was called " HTD Blues" and credited to Little Jerry.
It's not all that unexpected for someone who has been making music and reinventing himself for over 65 years. Swamp pop, in terms of song structure, is identical to the pop, rock, and R&B heard around America in the ‘50s and ‘60s, as performed by the likes of Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, Bobby Bland, Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, among many others.
On his new album, Sorry You Couldn't Make It, Swamp Dogg leans into country music. After decades as a sometimes outrageous outsider soul singer, Swamp Dogg leaned into more heartfelt country-inspired music on his latest album Sorry You Couldn't Make It.
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