Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife As he approaches his 84th birthday, Swamp Dogg has run out of time for foolishness. The veteran singer/songwriter’s (aka Jerry Williams, Jr.) 27th album is appropriately titled Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife. Instead of making a last-ditch effort to pass through the Pearly Gates, though, Williams chooses to focus on […]
Road Trip Earworms 2024 – Editor’s Pick for Favorite Songs There’s nothing like an earworm, sounding so good no matter how many times you play it. I’ve been an earworm listener since I was a kid – hitting repeat to keep that feeling going for hours. There were a lot of them this year. I […]
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AmericanaFest 2024 “Must See” It’s time for AmericanaFest 2024! I’m highlighting some must-sees for anyone else who’s making the trek to Nashville, as well as sharing my choices for the Americana Awards (to be held Wednesday evening at the Ryman Auditorium). My ground rules for the musts – they have to be folks I haven’t […]
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Favorite Albums of May 2024 You voted! And now the results from the readers’ vote for favorite albums of May 2024 releases are in! Congratulations top twelve! What a great bunch of albums this month, and this month’s competition was fierce! We had almost 18,000 voters! Check out this list just to see what else […]
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Swamp Dogg – Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St Perhaps beginning with the banjo, which has its origins with African and Caribbean slaves, bluegrass music has very deep roots with Black musicians, a fact muddied roughly a century ago when genres were essentially separated by race to market music more directly. Of course, that […]
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