Swamp Dogg - Swamp Dogg

I’ve had this album filed under ‘shite’ in my mind for years – my memory of it is that it was full of terrible disco. (Now, I love a bit of disco as much as the next man - more probably – but terrible disco is indeed terrible), so it probably hasn’t been put on a turntable for twenty years. Until today, when I thought I’d give it another whirl.

This came out in 1982, by which time Black American dance music had moved on from the classic disco sound towards what would become known as post-disco or boogie. Not for Swamp Dogg though. Oh no. This album is largely made up of attempts at the classic disco sound, none of which really hit the mark, despite employing every disco cliché in the big glittery book. Here’s the kicker, though – even listening to it with retro ears, it sounds sub-par, both from a disco perspective and from a Swamp Dogg one.

The exception is the first track, the only one which follows more usual Swamp Dogg country-soul lines.

It's back on to the shelf for this one.

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