Listen to the full conversation in the player above. "In 1970, I had '69 Silver Shadow Rolls but I drove it to death. I want to make more money because there's still things that I want to buy," he says. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly spoke to Swamp Dogg about his long career of reinventions, writing music that, according to him, ranges from incoherent to genuinely heartfelt and what he looks forward to doing next. I feel phenomenal and I don't want a bunch of old people around me," Williams says. "It was great because I'll be 78 in July, but I keep forgetting my age. On his latest album, the 77-year-old artist collaborates heavily with a younger generation of musicians, including Justin Vernon of Bon Iver ( whom he's previously worked with), Jenny Lewis and Poliça's Channy Leaneagh and Chris Bierden. 13,855 views Great Country/Soul/Popcorn issued on Swamper Records. "I wanted to be able to talk about sex, religion, politics I wanted to sing about everything." His song She’s All I Got was covered by Johnny Paycheck and reached 2 on the country charts way back in 1971. This album is hardly the performer’s first recorded foray into country. "I needed an alter ego because I wanted to say some things," he says. Country heartbreak and hard times soul hard times and heartbreakit all sounds like the same song when Swamp Dogg sings it. Then in 1970, he started going by his current moniker and presenting himself as an outsider soul artist. The third epic in our trilogy, featuring the patented start slow and then speed up formula. When Daniels talks in the verses, he tells of a greedy old man who hides his. In the '60s, he released a string of R&B records under his given name, Jerry Williams. An epic Southern Rock song, like Free Bird, a real classic, with Hughie Thomasson singing and playing to beat the band. 'The Legend Of The Wooley Swamp' is a lot more rocking than some of these tunes but the subject matter is quite ghastly. Swamp Dogg's first song came out in 1954, when he was just 12-years-old it was called " HTD Blues" and credited to Little Jerry. It's not all that unexpected for someone who has been making music and reinventing himself for over 65 years. On his new album, Sorry You Couldn't Make It, Swamp Dogg leans into country music.
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