Consumer Guide Album

Swamp Dogg: I Called for a Rope and They Threw Me a Rock [S.D.E.G., 1989]
Worth finding for his liner notes alone ("Why does jury duty pay more than my job and why is it the only Joy I know is a dishwashing detergent?"), an unvanquished professional and hopeless eccentric goes sane. His voice won't fend off nuclear attack anymore, but from Shirley & Lee to the Bellamy Brothers, from black history to rap, his vision of soul remains unique, and also remains a vision of soul. Sure "We Need a Revolution" is wordslinging--but not the wordslinging of a simp or a phony. B+