Consumer Guide Album

Swamp Dogg: The Best of Swamp Dogg [War Bride, 1982]
This is oldish stuff, I think--nothing from 1975's Island swandive or 1981's Takoma sunklikeastone, six of the nine originals from 1969's legendary Total Destruction to Your Mind, a couple from 1973's deep-fried Gag a Maggott, and there my research must end (except to note that "Please Let Me Kiss You Goodbye"'s velvet bell-bottoms are definitive early-'70s), because the only person I'm sure (pretty sure) owns every Swamp Dogg album is Jerry Williams himself. But oldish doesn't mean dated. These days, the man claims he composes twenty or thirty songs a day while driving his cab, and you can bet they're very much like these--more political, not as prime. You know he's still detailing the marriage wars with embarrassing pungency, still hearing a Stax-Volt-cum-Malaco four-four with blues obbligatos, still dreaming of the glory he deserves. Always will, I bet--dream about it, deserve it. A−