Swamp Dogg
Sign in to saveAlso known as Jerry Williams Jr., Little Jerry Williams
American soul and R&B singer, musician, songwriter and record producer
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Within Vinony's link graph, Swamp Dogg is referenced by 96 other articles, and connects out to rhythm and blues, Southern soul and politics.
It is catalogued under topics including 1942 births, 20th-century African-American musicians and 20th-century American guitarists.
Its subject is documented across 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-07-12
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 122,796
- Total plays
- 959,256
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Swamp Dogg (born Jerry Williams, Jr. on the 14th of July, 1942), is certainly one of the most eccentric people associated with American deep-soul music. Described as “Wilson Pickett meets Frank Zappa in a bad mood,” Swamp has also been infamous for his idiosyncratic and odd album covers (his association with the anti-Vietnam movement also allegedly put him on Nixon’s enemies list). Swamp released many albums over his long career on numerous record-labels (many of them indie) <a href="https://www
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerry
- Family name
- Williams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Portsmouth
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- soul
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- swampdogg.net
- Image
- Swamp-Dogg-2018.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1942-07-12
- Commons category
- Swamp Dogg
- start of work period
- 1954-00-00
- birth name
- Jerry Williams Jr.
- pseudonym
- Swamp Dogg
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