An endearing portrait of the R&B/country/etc. musician
Born Jerry Williams Jr. in the Portsmouth, VA of 1942, our hero made good-not-great R&B records for about 15 years before adopting his nickname and cutting the 1970 album, as trippy a soul album as has existed outside the Funkadelic empire.
Over the next 50-odd years, Swamp cut dozens of albums of his own psychedelic admixture of R&B, funk, country, and disco, doing time in scenes everywhere from New York to Muscle Shoals and Macon to Nashville before settling in Los Angeles. His business affairs were conducted by his adored wife Vivian and he seemed to do alright, a legend to some and unknown to most.
His neurologist daughter comes around to check on her dad . His wife Vivian had died some time earlier and, well, he wanted his pool painted. Gale and Olson bring a stoner energy to the proceedings, funny and a little hyper, amplifying Swamp’s stories with titles dropped into the footage and animated bits à la Mike Judge’s totally excellent seriesJudge pops in, in fact, as do Johnny Knoxville and voice actor Tom Kenny, mostly just to shoot the breeze with Swamp, poolside.
Swamp reveals himself to be a genuinely sweet, gentle man, a quiet citizen of the San Fernando Valley who happens to make music and film now and then with his roommates – he just happens to be doing it in his late 70s rather than his late 20s. If anything,will make any music nerd with a pulse snap up everything these three guys put their hand to. Long may Swamp vibe.
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