One of the great characters in rock and soul music is Jerry Williams, better known as the eccentric, idiosyncratic and always entertaining Swamp Dogg.
A Virginia native, Williams invented his own legend by claiming that he had little proper schooling, only to wake up one day and find himself a musical genius (his words). Actually, Williams is very talented - an early association with Jerry Wexler and Phil Walden led to him working for a number of years as a producer, engineer and occasional songwriter with Atlantic in the 1960s.åÊ