Few second acts in American life have been as fun to experience as that of Swamp Dogg, the bluesman turned self-proclaimed king of 1970s sleaze-and-skeeze satirical country R&B who, in 2018, released Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune with Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and Poliça’s Ryan Olson as producers. Since then, the smooth, salty songwriter worked with Vernon and the lit-folksy likes of the late John Prine and Jenny Lewis on albums such as 2020’s Sorry You Couldn’t Make It and 2022’s I Need a Job…So I Can Buy More Auto-Tune, with Lewis also winning a place on Dogg’s latest album, Swamp Dogg Contemplates the Afterlife, as the maestro covers her eerily delicate “Acid Tongue” as something roughly soulful, brass-and-organ grinding, and salvation-filled.

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