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Sorry You Couldn't Make It

Swamp Dogg

Sorry You Couldn't Make It

Latest release from the R&B/soul singer features guest appearances from Channy Leaneagh (Polica), Jenny Lewis, John Prine, and Justin Vernon (Bon Iver)

ADM rating[?]

7.4

Label
Joyful Noise
UK Release date
06/03/2020
US Release date
06/03/2020
  1. 8.2 |   Paste Magazine

    Following an experimental, heavily auto-tuned record, the prolific musician responds with an album of country ballads
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  2. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    It is clear that Swamp Dogg is a man who understands both the character and tradition of country. You can hear it in his voice, it’s resonance and depth a perfect embodiment of all that human emotion
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  3. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Legendary psychedelic soulman Swamp Dogg reinvents his aesthetic or perhaps pulls back the layers to expose what he's been all along on Sorry You Couldn't Make It
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    An album of unashamed emotional purgation. ... Swamp's late renascence is wonderful. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    The lyrics are presented with such conviction that it becomes quietly devastating. Rather like Swamp Dogg himself
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  6. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    Billed as a country album, the latest LP from the idiosyncratic soul artist born Jerry Williams Jr. examines grief from a distance, taking time to savor life’s little sweetnesses
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  7. 7.0 |   All Music

    Sorry You Couldn't Make It declares there should be a place for Swamp Dogg in the country pantheon alongside Charley Pride, Stoney Edwards, Darius Rucker, and the other brave artists who've confronted the color line in Nashville
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  8. 7.0 |   Exclaim

    It's remarkable that Swamp Dogg is still making music this rich, with this spirit of exploration; hopefully he's got another 23 in him
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