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I was a member of Joyful Noise's Early Bird VIP for a few years, and the last Swamp Dogg record that I received from the club, 2020's Sorry You Couldn't Make It, was very good. I meant to to go back into his long, storied discography after liking it so much but never did. Very much looking forward to diving into this one!

The new Blue Note series (Classics and Tone Poets) are all fire, so this one's a no brainer!
 
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Let's talk about this Swamp Dogg LP.

These songs are great, and his singing is superior to people less than half his age!

The production and mastering are fascinatingly inconsistent. It definitely lends a specific charm that is almost unnecessary, but I am wondering if this is a common thing with his albums. All the songs have their own sound, it's like almost no effort was made to make the production cohesive from track to track giving it a real DIY vibe.

Am I off base here? Anyone know anything about his studio methodology?
 
MadLucas said:
Let's talk about this Swamp Dogg LP.

These songs are great, and his singing is superior to people less than half his age!

The production and mastering are fascinatingly inconsistent. It definitely lends a specific charm that is almost unnecessary, but I am wondering if this is a common thing with his albums. All the songs have their own sound, it's like almost no effort was made to make the production cohesive from track to track giving it a real DIY vibe.

Am I off base here? Anyone know anything about his studio methodology?
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His joyful noise stuff was consistent in sound, one album was straight up country and the other varied in style. His older stuff, that I have, is straighter blues. I’ve had this one for a minute but not listened.
 
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MadLucas said:
Let's talk about this Swamp Dogg LP.

These songs are great, and his singing is superior to people less than half his age!

The production and mastering are fascinatingly inconsistent. It definitely lends a specific charm that is almost unnecessary, but I am wondering if this is a common thing with his albums. All the songs have their own sound, it's like almost no effort was made to make the production cohesive from track to track giving it a real DIY vibe.

Am I off base here? Anyone know anything about his studio methodology?
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He's put out some great albums. I get hooked on them every now and again and play certain songs on repeat until the ear worms fry my brain. Weird dude.
 
MadLucas said:
Let's talk about this Swamp Dogg LP.

These songs are great, and his singing is superior to people less than half his age!

The production and mastering are fascinatingly inconsistent. It definitely lends a specific charm that is almost unnecessary, but I am wondering if this is a common thing with his albums. All the songs have their own sound, it's like almost no effort was made to make the production cohesive from track to track giving it a real DIY vibe.

Am I off base here? Anyone know anything about his studio methodology?
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I love the disjointed nature of the production and think Jerry was very calculating in developing its sound.

This was Swamp's first record coming out of the pandemic. A couple years down the road, things had become relatively normal in most folks' perception but were still very far from normal in reality. Jerry melded the two pretty brilliantly. The humor is still there, but it's used in a more reality-based sense. He pretty much abandoned the crazy stuff on this record for a more straightforward soul songbook. This is the 'normalcy'. The production values represent the 'reality' - varying levels of autotune, a very DIY sound that could pass for something recorded alone in isolation, a crunchy, almost overdriven bottom end. Things are status quo - the songs- but things are also far from OK - the production. To me, it plays like a transmission from an isolated someone trying to preserve some normalcy for whoever is out there to listen and pass it on, but it's affected by and reflects the resources and the environment in which it's being created.
 
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