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(PRE​-​ORDER) Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St

by Swamp Dogg

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    Pre-order of (PRE-ORDER) Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases May 31, 2024

      $7 USD  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Release date: May 31, 2024 - Pre-Order includes limited edition Colored Vinyl.

    Includes digital pre-order of (PRE-ORDER) Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 31, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $23.98 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Release date: May 31, 2024

    Includes digital pre-order of (PRE-ORDER) Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 31, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      $12.98 USD or more 

     

1.
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Ugly Mans Wife
3.
Curtains On The Window
4.
Have A Good Time
5.
To The Other Woman (Feat. Margo Price)
6.
Songs To Sing
7.
Count The Days (Feat. Jenny Lewis)
8.
Gotta Have My Baby Back
9.
Your Best Friend
10.
This Is My Dream
11.
Rise Up (Feat. Vernon Reid)
12.
Murder Ballad

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“Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music, but it came from Black people. The banjo, the washtub, all that stuff started with African Americans. We were playing it before it even had a name.” - Swamp Dogg

Produced by Ryan Olson (Bon Iver, Poliça) and recorded with an all-star band including Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas, Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, and Kenny Vaughan, the collection is a riotous blend of past and present, mixing the sacred and the profane in typical Swamp Dogg fashion as it blurs the lines between folk, roots, country, blues, and soul. The tracklist is an eclectic one—brand new originals and vintage Swamp Dogg classics sit side by side with reimaginings of ’70s R&B hits and timeless ’50s pop tunes—but the performances here are thoroughly cohesive, filtering everything through a progressive Appalachian lens that nods to tradition without ever being bound by it. Special guests like Margo Price, Vernon Reid, Jenny Lewis, Justin Vernon, and The Cactus Blossoms all add to the excitement, but it’s ultimately the 81-year-old Swamp Dogg’s delivery—sly and playful and full of genuine joy and ache—that steals the show. The result is a record that’s as reverent as it is raunchy, a collection that challenges conventional notions of genre and race while at the same time celebrating the music that helped make Swamp Dogg the beloved iconoclast he’s known as today.

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releases May 31, 2024

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In 1970 the Southern soul music maverick Jerry Williams, Jr. made the most radical move of his career. Frustrated with music business politics Williams reinvented himself as Swamp Dogg, an irreverent anti-hero smashing the conventions of commercial R&B music. ... more

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