Swamp Dogg: The White Man Made Me Do It

IN 1970, JERRY WILLIAMS was a writer, performer and producer, whose clients included Gene Pitney and Doris Duke — for whom he masterminded the deep soul classic 'I'm A Loser'. His own solo career, however, was frustrating. A victim, he recently revealed, of child rape who debuted on record aged 12, Williams' dissatisfaction with chitlin circuit stereotyping erupted after an involuntary LSD experience and a dispiriting A&R stint under Jerry Wexler at Atlantic.