13 Facts About Swamp Dogg

Swamp Dogg debuted his new sound on the Total Destruction to Your Mind album in 1970.

Swamp Dogg continues to make music, releasing Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune on Joyful Noise Recordings in 2018, Sorry You Couldn't Make It in 2020, and I Need a Job.

Swamp Dogg made his first recording, "HTD Blues ", for the Mechanic record label in 1954, when he was aged 12, with his parents and uncle and backing musicians, and was regularly hired to play private parties.

Swamp Dogg wrote successfully for other musicians, including "Big Party" for Barbara and the Browns.

Swamp Dogg released several more singles on Calla through to 1967, by now credited simply as Jerry Williams, but with little commercial success, although some of his records such as "If You Ask Me " later became staples of the Northern Soul movement in the UK.

Swamp Dogg recorded a single, "I Got What It Takes", in a duo with Brooks O'Dell, and released two singles under his own name on the Cotillion label, a subsidiary of Atlantic.

Swamp Dogg produced the first Swamp Dogg album, Total Destruction to Your Mind.

Swamp Dogg continued to release albums through the 1970s and into the mid-1980s as Swamp Dogg, on various small independent labels and in a variety of styles including disco and country and maintained a healthy cult following.

Swamp Dogg set up his own publishing and recording company, Swamp Dogg Entertainment Group.

In 1999, "Slow Slow Disco" was sampled by Kid Rock on the track "I Got One for Ya", sparking a revival of interest in Swamp Dogg, who began performing live gigs for the first time.

Swamp Dogg released some further singles, and a compilation album of the best of his work as both Little Jerry Williams and Swamp Dogg, It's All Good, was released in 2009.

Swamp Dogg released a full-length album of new songs in 2014, The White Man Made Me Do It, which Williams described as being a sort of sequel to Total Destruction To Your Mind.

In 2024 he was profiled in the documentary film Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted.