Song lyrics, vinyl records and decorated jackets hang from the walls as you enter the Louisiana Swamp Pop museum in Ville Platte. The tunes of some of the genre's biggest stars play in the background ...

Swamp Dogg has never performed a lot in public, so when I had a chance to see him at South by Southwest in 1998, I arrived early to make sure I got close enough to the stage to see. After all, he is ...

This is FRESH AIR. Jerry Williams Jr. began his career in the 1960s, writing songs and producing acts such as Patti LaBelle and Gene Pitney. In 1970, he released an explosive, wildly unique album ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At one point in the free-wheeling music documentary “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted,” the eccentric 82-year-old musician is ...

Over the course of his seven-decade long career, the Virginia-born, Los Angeles based artist, songwriter and producer Swamp Dogg has firmly established himself as one of the most eccentric and ...

There’s something about the swamp—the place and the sound. It’s dark, it’s grimy, it’s sinister. And it’s beautiful. “The sonic, emotional vibe of the swamp is [a feeling of] imminent danger,” says ...

Even if you're bored to tears of music documentaries, this one is worth coming out of retirement for. At one point in the free-wheeling music documentary “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted,” the ...