A wildly entertaining and fittingly unconventional music documentary about convention-defying singer, songwriter and record producer Jerry Williams, AKA Swamp Dogg, will screen February 3 at the Price Center in San Marcos. Considered one of the great cult figures of 20th-Century American music whose singular voice and ideas have shaped the history of soul music, Country, Hip-Hop and other genres, the 2024 documentary was directed by Isaac Gale, Ryan Olson and David McMurry.
According to Wikipedia, after recording as Little Jerry and Little Jerry Williams in the 1950s and 1960s, “Williams reinvented himself as Swamp Dogg, releasing a series of satirical, offbeat, and eccentric recordings, as well as continuing to write and produce for other musicians. He debuted his new sound on the “Total Destruction to Your Mind” album in 1970. In the 1980s, he helped to develop Alonzo Williams’ World Class Wreckin’ Cru, which produced Dr. Dre among others.”
While he never achieved mainstream fame, the film profiles Williams who lives with his friends and colleagues Larry “Moogstar” Clemons and David “Guitar Shorty” Kearney in a modest home in the San Fernando Valley.
