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
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-07-12
country soulr&bsoul
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 122,796
- Total plays
- 959,256
Tags
soulrhythm and bluesfunk70sDeep Soul
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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