The exciting news for me this week is that the elusive Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams may be honored this summer by the Society for Preserving the Hampton Roads Sound. This is a relatively new group dedicated to saluting soul and R&B groups and performers from our neck of the woods. We're talking Gary U.S. Bonds, Jimmy Soul and similar artists. Swamp Dogg is someone who seems to be better known in the offices of the New Yorker and Rolling Stone magazines than in his home town of Portsmouth, so I was elated to hear that somebody's going to the trouble of trying to get a street named after him. Best of all, Swamp Dogg may be here in June for a performance. Here is the New Yorker's review of the Dogg's most recent album, "Resurrection," released last spring.
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I can dig some Swamp Dogg - he had a track featured on the Oxford American Southern Music comp a few years back called "Total Destruction to Your Mind". Had no idea he was from Portsmouth.
Is that Jacob, my Texas doggie? How ya doin'?
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