Swamp Dogg - Your Best Friend
Swamp Dogg - "Your Best Friend" from his new album Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th ST. Purchase/save here: https://ohboy.lnk.to/blackgrass
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Your Best Friend (LYRICS)
Your best friend
tell me just how this can be
that i mean nothing more to you
cause you mean the world to me
yeahhh
your best friend
the one you come a crying too
when some guys let you down
girl
is that all I mean to you
oooohhh
doesn't it strike you kind of strange now
that im always free
anytime at all
that you call on me
if you read between the lines girl
when im talkin to you
ohh youll find that I say one word for him
but myself i say two
yeah
ohhhh
to miss, the little extra thing i do
and youll see your best friend
is not in love with you
im in love with you
hey
got to love you baby
got to love you baby
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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