If You Can Kill It I Can Cook It By Swamp Dogg.

Before there was Snoop Dogg there was Swamp Dogg. The original was born Jerry Williams Jr. in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1942. He first won fame as a 12-year old soul singer called Little Jerry–before he later decided, at the end of the 1960s and after several hit records, to create a new identity for making music and mischief.  Thus did Little Jerry become Swamp Dogg—a  legendary singer, songwriter and record producer whose singular voice and ideas have shaped the history not merely of soul music, but of country and hip-hop and a dozen other genres.  He also made history in the music business, early in his career, as the first Black  A&R man at Atlantic Records, where he oversaw music by The Drifters and Gary US Bond–just two of the storied acts whose sounds he’s shaped.  .    Pioneer Works Press Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 210 pgs / 275 color / 30 bw. Pub Date 7/29/2025   But if music is Swamp Dogg’s first love, this fabled man of taste has another one: food.  In 1972, Swamp Dogg