The fiddle accents on “Family Pain” paint the song with a countrified lacquer that’s best described as Curtis Mayfield’s “Pusherman” meets Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive” in a battle for street corner supremacy in my mind’s eye. Built upon by a dream-like backup band featuring Justin Vernon, Jenny Lewis, and key man, figuratively and literally, Derick Lee leading the band that was at times as large as 14 musicians. Infectious rhythms, coupled with his silky, smooth delivery, lay the gravel for the record. On this new record, he’s laid down sad songs, love songs, songs about death, clairvoyant songs on all facets of the human condition in an emotive pocket that sucks you dry and reinvigorates in one fell swoop. He’s more country than most, more funk than the rest, and has more soul than all of them put together. “Every Friday when he came home from the Navy yard he’d stop off and get his records, like “Mule Train” by Frankie Laine, or “Riders in the Sky” by Vaughn Monroe.” His first time performing on stage was a country song at a talent show when he was six years old, Red Foley’s classic, “Peace in the Valley”. It’s an aesthetic he claims to have gotten from his grandfather, “My granddaddy, he just bought country records out the asshole,” Swamp remembers. Sure, he loves his horns, we all do, but his country roots are showing on this record, and it’s glorious. His latest offering Sorry You Couldn’t Make It is drenched in all the above but pull away at the layers, and you’ll come to realize Swamp Dogg is decidedly country at the foundation. Hank Williams Jr.At 77 years-young Swamp Dogg’s (Jerry Williams Jr.) custom brand of psychedelic, swampy soul and R&B has carried him far and wide since the 1950s.
If You've Got The Money (i've Got The Time) I'm Gonna Get Drunk And Play Hank Williams I Was With Red Foley (the Night He Passed Away) Everything comes down to money and love Early In The Morning And And Late At The Night Country Music (those Tear Jerking Songs) All My Rowdy Friends (have Settled Down) All My Rowdy Friends (Are Coming Over Tonight)
HANK WILLIAMS SONGS SWAMP SONG SKIN
Now Amos Moses was a Cajun He lived by himself in the swamp He hunted alligator for a living He just knock them in the head with a stump Louisiana law gonna get ya Amos It ain't legal huntin alligator Down in the swamp now Well everyone blamed his old man For making him mean as a snake When Amos Moses was a boy His Daddy would use him for alligator bait Time for ? and chokin in the swamp Alligator babe in a Louisiana bayou About 45 minutes southeast of Tibado Louisiana Lived a man named Doc Mill Sap And his pretty white Hannah They raised up a son who could Eat his weight in groceries They named him after a man of cloth Called him Amos Moses Now the folks around South Louisiana Thought Amos was a hell of a man He could trap the biggest meanest alligator And just use one hand Thats all he got left Cause the alligator bit it Left on gone, clean up to the elbow Well the sheriff got wind that Amos Was in the swamp hutnin alligator skin So he snuck in the swamp Tried to get the boy And he never came out again Well I wonder where the Louisiana sheriff went too? You can sure get lost in the Louisiana bayou About 45 minutes southeast of Tibado Louisiana Lived a man named Doc Mill Sap And his pretty white Hannah They raised up a son who could Eat his weight in groceries They named him after a man of cloth Called him Amos Moses Sit down on em Amos About 45 minutes southeast of Tibado Louisiana Lived a man named Doc Mill Sap And his pretty white Hannah They raised up a son who could Eat his weight in grocerie