Swamp Dogg will join the workforce on his next album, I Need A Job…So I Can Buy More Autotune. Along with the announcement, Swamp Dogg (real name Jerry Williams) has shared the lead single “Soul To Blessed Soul” off the LP out on February 25th via Don Giovanni Records.
The 79-year-old singer continues his late-career stride four years after releasing his comeback album, Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune. He followed that up with the Justin Vernon-produced Sorry You Couldn’t Make It in 2020, where Swamp Dogg explored his country stylings with help from John Prine and Jenny Lewis.
“I just didn’t want it to sound like Swamp Dogg,” the singer told Rolling Stone. “I wanted to shock the shit out of them.”
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The new record sees the multi-hyphenate enlisting more special guests, this time more in line with his soul/R&B background. Blues great Willie Clayton lends his talent to the ballad “Cheating In the Daylight” while Guitar Shorty does his six-string thing on “Soul To Blessed Soul”.
Swamp Dogg’s latest autotune-assisted soul ballad swoops through the double dose of blues that is being broke and in love. “You make me seem rich when I don’t have a dime,” he sings. “You make sure what I do for ya makes me shine.”
Listen to “Soul To Blessed Soul”, the lead single from the upcoming Swamp Dogg album I Need A Job…So I Can Buy More Autotune. Click here to pre-order the album and scroll down for a full tracklist and album artwork.
Swamp Dogg – “Soul To Blessed Soul”
[H/T Rolling Stone]