Swamp Dogg - This Is My Dream
Swamp Dogg - "This Is My Dream" from his new album Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th ST. Purchase/save here: https://ohboy.lnk.to/blackgrass
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This Is My Dream (LYRICS)
This is my dream
Oh please
don’t try to take it away from me
I’m dreamin
you know I’m in love with you
and you’re saying you love me too
I know dreams are not real
their fake an imitation
please let me hold on to this dream
all though it’s a figment
of my imagination
Let me sleep on
don’t say it’s over
show a little pity for this poor thing
give my heart a chance
to catch up with my mind
and maybe mind will explain the pain
as long as I’m dreamin’
I don’t have to accept you’re gone
If I dream long enough
oh I might dream you back home
If fairy tales are real
ginger bread houses do exist
if the cow did jump over the moon
then you and I can make it through this
this is still my dream with a place for you
you’ll be in my heart always
if it’s just to make me blue
Hailed by Pitchfork as “one of pop’s great cult acts,” Swamp Dogg has spent the better part of the last 70 years pushing the boundaries of soul, funk, and R&B, rebelling against the confining racial and commercial politics of the music industry with more than two dozen critically acclaimed albums ranging from the radically subversive to the downright absurd.
With his remarkable new collection, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th St., Swamp Dogg adds yet another chapter to his endlessly surprising career, celebrating the sounds he grew up on in 1940s Virginia while at the same time shining a spotlight on bluegrass music’s deep African American roots. Produced by Ryan Olson and recorded with an all-star band including Noam Pikelny, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas, Chris Scruggs, Billy Contreras, and Kenny Vaughan, the collection is a riotous blend of past and present, one that filers the sacred and profane through a progressive Appalachian lens that nods to tradition without ever being bound by it. Special guests like Margo Price, Vernon Reid, Jenny Lewis, Justin Vernon, and The Cactus Blossoms all add to the excitement, but it’s ultimately the 81-year-old Swamp Dogg’s delivery—sly and playful and full of genuine joy and ache—that steals the show. The result is a record that’s as reverent as it is raunchy, a work that challenges conventional notions of genre and race as it combines lust and heartbreak, pain and ecstasy, revolution and ridiculousness the way only Swamp Dogg can.
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