Swamp Dogg – Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife (CD)

Jerry Williams Jr. has been operating outside the mainstream since the early 1970s, when his Swamp Dogg persona became a vessel for some of the most bracingly honest soul and country-soul the American South ever produced. Now well into his eighties, he's still asking the questions nobody else thinks to put on wax, which is exactly why this release matters. Few voices in roots music carry this much lived weight.