SWAMP DOGG Total Destruction To Your Mind (CD)

(Alive Records) 12 tracks, digipack - new promo copy with black mark on barcode 

“Total Destruction to Your Mind” is the first studio album from Jerry Williams' gnarled alter ego Swamp Dogg. Obsessed with sex, class, drugs, politics and all things crude. All the various undercurrents of the late 60s and early 70s counterculture, but the twist of his 1970 debut is how he embeds all these obsessions within the framework of Deep Southern Soul. Sure, there are elements of rock, funk and even country - wah-wah guitars pound over hard four-on-the-floor beats, and Dogg covers an inordinate number of songs by Joe South - but all that flair essentially serves as an accessory to hard, gritty Southern soul in the tradition of Muscle Shoals.