| features in: Album Chart of 1973 ● Album Chart of the Decade: 1970s |
“Gag A Maggot” is the fourth album in four years from the prolific soul maverick, now on his own label, Stone Dogg Records. There are 7 originals and 1 cover on this one – a somewhat unremarkable rendition of Wilson Pickett’s “Midnight Hour”. Album highlight is “Please Let Me Kiss You Goodbye” as Swamp brilliantly channels his inner Van Morrison and “Mighty Mighty Dollar Bill”, a funky little groover that really gets under your skin after a few spins – very much in the same kind of way as Joe Tex would later do in the disco-era with “Aint Gonna Bump No More”. As always, the brilliance is occasionally undermined, here it’s on “T.T.” a lame pop piece where Dogg proclaims “I cant live without my T.T.”. Presumably, it’s not a song about The Isle Of Man races. It’s a downward turn in any event, although his “humour” is not always lost on me; one of the album’s better love songs is called “I Couldn’t Pay For What I Got Last Night”. Dogg’s not always vital, but he’s always worth checking out…
The Jukebox Rebel
14–Jan–2010
| Tracklist |
| A1 | [03:28]  Swamp Dogg - Wifesitter (Jerry Williams Jr., Stan McKenney) Soul |
| A2 | [05:29]  Swamp Dogg - Choking To Death From The Ties That Bind (Jerry Williams Jr., Stan McKenney) Soul |
| A3 | [02:49]  Swamp Dogg - I Couldn’t Pay For What I Got Last Night (Jerry Williams Jr.) Disco / Funk |
| A4 | [05:00]  Swamp Dogg - Mighty Mighty Dollar Bill (Jerry Williams Jr., Stan McKenney) Disco / Funk |
| B1 | [02:46]  Swamp Dogg - Midnight Hour (Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper) Soul |
| B2 | [03:20]  Swamp Dogg - Please Let Me Kiss You Goodbye (Jerry Williams Jr.) Soul |
| B3 | [02:50]  Swamp Dogg - T.T. (Jerry Williams Jr.) Pop |
| B4 | [03:17]  Swamp Dogg - Why Must We Fall (When We Fall In Love) (Jerry Williams Jr., Stan McKenney) Soul |
| B5 | [03:50]  Swamp Dogg - Plastered To The Wall (Higher Than The Ceiling) (Jerry Williams Jr.) Blues / Rhythm n Blues |
