Swamp Dogg is coming to Jackson, Mississippi!
He’ll be a guest/cookbook panelist at the Mississippi Book Festival in Jackson on September 13th. His new cookbook, If You Can Kill It, I Can Cook It is out now.
Our Jackson location in Fondren will also be hosting Swamp Dogg for a meet+greet and record signing later that afternoon, Saturday, September 13th at 3 p.m. He’ll be at the shop signing copies of his latest album, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St. The record will also be our Record of the Month Club selection for September–signed by Swamp Dogg!
“Swamp Dogg’s Blackgrass is one of the best country albums of the year.” -NPR’s Fresh Air (read article here)
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.
