SWAMP DOGG Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune INDIE EXCLUSIVE RELEASE DATE : September 7, 2018 CATALOG # : JNR269 LP-C1 UPC: 714270692321 GOLD VINYL AVAILABLE FORMATS : LP-C1 / LP / CD GENRE : Soul / R&B BOX LOT QUANTITY : 10 LP / 30 CD LP UPC: 714270692314 BLACK VINYL PACKAGING : JACKET / WALLET VINYL NON-RETURNABLE. VINYL INCLUDES DOWNLOAD CD UPC: 714270692338 TRACK LISTING : OVERVIEW : In 1970 the Southern soul music maverick Jerry Williams, Jr. made the most radical move of his 1 Answer Me, My Love 2:53 career. Frustrated with music business politics Williams reinvented himself as Swamp Dogg, an 2 Lonely 2:39 irreverent anti-hero smashing the conventions of commercial R&B music. Swamp Dogg’s debut release Total Destruction to Your Mind featured a post-apocalyptic take on the Muscle Shoals’ 3 I'll Pretend 4:25 sound, with lyrics inspired by the revolutionary politics and psychedelic drugs of the late ‘60s. 4 I'm Coming With Lovin' On My Mind 4:05 The music on Total Destruction to Your Mind stood worlds apart from the formulaic pop tunes Williams started cutting in 1954 under the name Little Jerry, and Swamp Dogg hasn’t looked 5 $$$ Huntin' 5:31 back since. 6 I Love Me More 3:36 Now, nearly fifty years after his debut release, Swamp Dogg stands on the precipice of 7 Sex With Your Ex 4:32 another radical reinvention. His latest creation is titled Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune a nine song 8 She's All Mind All Mind 4:32 collection featuring production by Poliça’s Ryan Olson. Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune finds Swamp Dogg’s bluesy southern soul colliding head-on with 21st Century electronic music 9 Star Dust 3:48 production techniques. The reference to Auto-Tune in the title is not incidental, the album’s sound is built around Swamp Dogg’s experimentation with the ubiquitous vocal processor. While Auto-Tune has RECOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE : become a fixture of the modern pop music landscape, this is Swamp Dogg’s first major Swamp Dogg exploration of the device. “Every time I listen to some new music that everybody thinks is the Frank Zappa greatest thing since hot biscuits, it's full of Auto-Tune,” Swamp Dogg says. His use of Auto-Tune technology is not gratuitous. Like Kanye West on 808s & Heartbreak, Swamp Dogg utilizes the Captain Beefheart cold digital tone of Auto-Tune to convey a sense of emotional detachment during the album’s Gnarls Barkley most anguished moments. Curtis Mayfield "The songs are about being lonely,” Swamp Dogg says of Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune. The feeling of loneliness is particularly palpable on the hauntingly beautiful “I’ll Pretend,” which features vocals from Justin Vernon. Swamp Dogg describes the song as a character study QUOTES : about “a guy sitting in a restaurant by himself losing his fucking mind because he’s hoping his woman is gonna walk by, but she's at a Ramada Inn somewhere fucking somebody else to death." Despite the record’s overriding theme of loss, Swamp Dogg’s warped sense of humor is still intact. Let’s remember that we’re talking about an artist who released a “greatest hits” album in 1976 filled entirely with new songs! Swamp’s comic side is evident on “$$$ Hunting,” which rolls out with a funky Zapp-like bounce. There’s also “Sex With Your Ex,” where Swamp Dogg extols the benefits of the song’s title theme over random bursts of feedback and noise. Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune is a gem, a unique and unpredictable moment in the life of a unique and unpredictable artist that some consider a national treasure. “I might be the only one,” Swamp Dogg says. “But I think Swamp Dogg is a national treasure.” joyful noise recordings 1030 Orange St | Indianapolis, IN 46203 joyfulnoiserecordings.com [email protected].