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Gary U.S. Bonds / photo by John Cavanaugh
Swamp Dogg Contemplates The Afterlife is thought to be the artist’s 27th full length and finds the artist participating in a broad range of promotional activities in support of the album, including tour dates and pre-release special events in New York, Nashville and Los Angeles. These include a discussion and performance event at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville on June 6, followed a special “The Drop” event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on June 9. On June 17, Swamp Dogg will perform an album release show at New York’s Mercury Lounge as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Additional summer dates are listed below.
The album was produced by Jerry “Swamp Dogg” Williams, Michael Mangini, Sam Hollander and the aforementioned Steve Greenberg, who collectively came to the Swamp Dogg project having worked with a range of artists including Joss Stone, Andy Grammer, Tom Jones, the O’Jays, Betty Wright, Jonas Brothers and Hanson. The album was recorded at Brooklyn’s Mission Sound studios with guitarist Sherod Barnes, bassist Jerry Barnes, drummer Steve Wolf, trumpet player Jesse Klirsfeld, organ/piano player Raymond Angry and saxophonist Morgan Price, as well as Moogstar, Swamp Dogg’s live-in keyboardist.
PRE-SAVE SWAMP DOGG CONTEMPLATES THE AFTERLIFE
Swamp Dogg Contemplates The Afterlife was produced by the artist, né Jerry Williams, Jr., along with S-Curve founder Steve Greenberg, Mike Mangini and Sam Hollander, Grammy winners who’ve individually and collectively produced artists including Joss Stone, Tom Jones, the O’Jays, Betty Wright & the Roots, Andy Grammer, Jonas Brothers, Hanson, Digable Planets and Public Enemy. The album’s June 19 release date is a nod to Black Music Month. One of the few first-generation soul artists still recording and touring, Swamp Dogg’s music has been embraced by successive generations who are taken with his musical mastery and iconoclastic approach to both his craft and life writ large. Testimony to his ecumenism is found in the fact that he’s been warmly embraced within the Americana world, and in his recent headlining appearance aboard the SiriusXM Outlaw Country Cruise. He has also made waves of late with the release of the critically lauded documentary film Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted, currently streaming.
Swamp Dogg Contemplates The Afterlife
Tracklist:
1. Searching for Heaven
2. Acid Tongue
3. Knock Knock (Memories)
4. Waka Waka Waka (feat. Gary U.S. Bonds)
5. A Million Tears Ago
6. Unhappy Song
7. Please Don’t Bury Me
8. Hot To Trot
9. Daddy's Little Girl
10. Final Approach
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