You'd think you were talking to a White country boy compared to what he used to sound like. This sonofabitch talks country in everyday life. "Nobody was ready to push a Black country act, and I'm talking country. "Bakersfield, California, was very, very responsible for pushing Charley Pride through," he tells. After all, Charley Pride and his wife were there."īut as Williams is quick to remind us, Pride did not get to that dinner table on his own. I want to feel that we got overlooked because the mailroom people were incompetent, not because we were black. they never sent us an invitation to the dinner, that they were sorry we missed. "We were in the top five for a writer's award for the year 1972. Bonds and I received when we entered the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee for the Country Music Awards," Williams writes in regards to the album's title. So when he saw his name back in Billboard, it got him thinking about the reception a hit country tune written by two black men had been received, which he recounts in the liner notes he penned on the back cover of his latest album, Sorry You Couldn't Make It. A second country version of the song was also recorded by Conway Twitty in 1972. 2 on the country music charts that year as well. Bonds that became a hit not only on the R&B chart for the singer Freddie North, but another version of the song by outlaw legend Johnny Paycheck peaked at No. Yet it wasn't the success of Love, Loss and Auto-Tune that inspired Williams' latest Swamp Dogg classic as much as the hit that preceded it nearly 50 years ago "She's All I Got," which Williams co-wrote with Gary U.S. "The greatest one was making the Heatseekers chart, where I came in at No. "In fact, the album hit the chart with all kinds of numbers," Williams tells. Jerry Williams, the 77-year-old soul legend otherwise known as Swamp Dogg, had a funny thing happen to him a couple of years back when he scored his first Billboard chart hit since 1971 with his 2018 LP Love, Loss and Auto-Tune.
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