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You soul fans out there need to spring for the following record immediately. If you're on my side of the pond, it'll cost you about twenty bucks as an import, but believe me, it's worth it. Lee Moses only made one album and a handful of singles, and it's a total mystery why he never got over. He's like Sam and Dave singing simultaneously (and as big as both men combined), maybe with a little Bobby Womack thrown in. And like Womack, he's an excellent, expressive guitar player. Was friends with Hendrix, and they pulled session work together. Turned down Gladys Knight's offer to be her guitarist because he wanted to do his own thing. Hailed from Atlanta but is now deceased, which is one less brother Nerbly has to worry about getting mugged by.

cigarettesmoking man wrote:i would highly recommend hannibalism by the mighty hannibal. willie mitchell is really great too. but the hannibal is where it's at.

Lee Moses played guitar on a number of Hannibal's records.

Kyle Motor wrote:What's your take on Swamp Dogg, either as performer or songwriter/producer? I've got this fantastic early-70s Irma Thomas LP that he wrote and produced. Its basically a concept album about cheating, each song from a different point of view of all the people involved.

That sounds interesting...

I'll have to second Swamp Dogg. Total Destruction of Your Mind is a great, great album.

I'd also recommend - well, it isn't soul, but it's hard New Orleans funk. That's right, the Meters. Funkify Your Life is a 2-disc anthology collecting their greatest jams. "Cissy Strut" is one of the funkiest 3-minute jams ever recorded. It is all about Ziggy Modeliste.

Kyle Motor wrote:What's your take on Swamp Dogg, either as performer or songwriter/producer? I've got this fantastic early-70s Irma Thomas LP that he wrote and produced. Its basically a concept album about cheating, each song from a different point of view of all the people involved.

Which Irma Thomas record would that be? I love Swamp Dogg, and his writing/production on Doris Duke's I'm a Loser is stellar.

As stated elsewhere, Total Destruction is an excellent record. Rat On has some good stuff, too. My friend Chris heard a brand new Swamp Dogg track called "Resurrection" on Oakland radio recently. He said it's really great.

Interestingly, Swamp Dogg co-wrote one of Johnny Paycheck's biggest hits, "She's All I Got," lending support to my theory that Swamp Dogg is the black David Allan Coe.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

Kyle Motor wrote:
What's your take on Swamp Dogg, either as performer or songwriter/producer? I've got this fantastic early-70s Irma Thomas LP that he wrote and produced. Its basically a concept album about cheating, each song from a different point of view of all the people involved.

Which Irma Thomas record would that be? I love Swamp Dogg, and his writing/production on Doris Duke's I'm a Loser is stellar.

As stated elsewhere, Total Destruction is an excellent record. Rat On has some good stuff, too. My friend Chris heard a brand new Swamp Dogg track called "Resurrection" on Oakland radio recently. He said it's really great.

Interestingly, Swamp Dogg co-wrote one of Johnny Paycheck's biggest hits, "She's All I Got," lending support to my theory that Swamp Dogg is the black David Allan Coe.

It's called In Between Tears. And apparently, you can get a CD-R copy from Swamp Dogg himself.

Swamp Dogg, aka Jerry Williams, has written so many songs, and not just soul but country and pop. Every time I find a record somewhere that has his name on it I pick it up. Doesn't matter if he wrote it, produced it, arranged it or whatever, its usually at the very least interesting. He wrote a couple of Gene Pitney songs that are fantastic.

I found this compilation to be pretty good:

http://lostin-tyme.blogspot.com/2007/05 ... -rare.html

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Interestingly, Swamp Dogg co-wrote one of Johnny Paycheck's biggest hits, "She's All I Got," lending support to my theory that Swamp Dogg is the black David Allan Coe.

Explain your theory, sir!

SecondEdition wrote:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Interestingly, Swamp Dogg co-wrote one of Johnny Paycheck's biggest hits, "She's All I Got," lending support to my theory that Swamp Dogg is the black David Allan Coe.

Explain your theory, sir!

Both men are way too mercurial, eclectic, and eccentric for their desired demographics, leading to cult oddity status.

Both men are stone braggarts obsessed with their lack of acclaim as evidenced in hilariously over-the-top self-penned liner notes.

Both men are flamboyant and weird yet supremely talented.

Both have excellent taste in covers, both obvious and obscure.

Both wrote huge hits for Johnny Paycheck.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Interestingly, Swamp Dogg co-wrote one of Johnny Paycheck's biggest hits, "She's All I Got," lending support to my theory that Swamp Dogg is the black David Allan Coe.

Explain your theory, sir!

Both men are way too mercurial, eclectic, and eccentric for their desired demographics, leading to cult oddity status.

Both men are stone braggarts obsessed with their lack of acclaim as evidenced in hilariously over-the-top self-penned liner notes.

Both men are flamboyant and weird yet supremely talented.

Both have excellent taste in covers, both obvious and obscure.

Both wrote huge hits for Johnny Paycheck.

I see.

Your theory is quite interesting. If anything, they are both really weird and really talented. Didn't know about the Johnny Paycheck thing, but then I know absolutely nothing about Johnny Paycheck other than that he was a singer.

I guess Swamp Dogg never wrote a song called "Cracker Fucker," and I am probably thankful he never did.

On the other hand, I have a feeling it'd be funnier than David Allan Coe's song with that other racial epithet.

SecondEdition wrote:I guess Swamp Dogg never wrote a song called "Cracker Fucker," and I am probably thankful he never did.

No, but he did cover Joe South's "Redneck" pretty convincingly ("Don't It Make You Want to Go Home," too). And his cover of "Sam Stone" has to be heard to be believed.