Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’
03-05-2025 11:30 via theguardian.com

Eccentric musician Swamp Dogg at 82: ‘There’s no sympathy for octogenarians’

The genre-bending cult singer is the subject of an offbeat new documentary where he invites people into a long life filled with ups, downs and LSDSwamp Dogg has only just stopped seeing monsters. Since being spiked with LSD back in the 1960s, which also influenced his distinct take on left-field soul music, the 82-year-old says he could still feel the impacts of it up until just a few years ago. “I was paranoid of crowds and paranoid of being alone,” he says. “I had high anxiet
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