“I’m Not Selling Out, I’m Buying In” by Swamp Dogg - album review

features in: Album Chart of 1981 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1980s

LOL! Check that cover! Swamp Dogg, black man standing tall on a boardroom table, bedecked in resplendent white suit, complete with matching top hat and cane. Once again he’s looking down on the bemused boardroom’s natural inhabitants – all of whom happen to be white men dressed in dark suits. I guess these are the “Low Friends in High Places, Just A Bunch Of Devil’s wearing angel faces” that he sings about in the album. Any wise words (and he has quite a few) completely lose their impact on me with the lame brand of funky session pop that’s on offer. Dire starter “Swamping Salutations” sets a fake Rock n Roll tone. Ouch. He’s turned into Meat Loaf? Any recovery from thereon is slight and not a single track packs a punch. It’s a sad day when the best thing about an album is its cover…

The Jukebox Rebel
15–Jan–2010

Tracklist

A1	[04:02] Swamp Dogg - Swamping Salutations / Wine, Women And Rock ’N’ Roll (Jerry Williams Jr.) Rock n Roll / Rockabilly
A2	[05:02] Swamp Dogg - It’s Just A Little Time Left (Jerry Williams Jr.) Pop
A3	[04:50] Swamp Dogg - The Love We Got Ain’t Worth Two Dead Flies (Jerry Williams Jr., Maurice McCormick, Obie Jessie, Yvonne Williams) Pop
A4	[04:28] Swamp Dogg - Low Friends In High Places (Jerry Williams Jr., Tony Davis) Pop
B1	[05:06] Swamp Dogg - A Hundred And … (Jerry Williams Jr.) Disco / Funk
B2	[04:04] Swamp Dogg - Total Destruction To Your Mind Once Again (Jerry Williams Jr., Tony Davis) Disco / Funk
B3	[04:24] Swamp Dogg - California Is Drowning And I Live Down By The River (Jerry Williams Jr., Yvonne Williams) Pop
B4	[03:29] Swamp Dogg - Sexy, Sexy, Sexy #3 (Jerry Williams Jr.) Disco / Funk

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