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b'PART 2 OF 2: R&B cult favorite Jerry \\u201cSwamp Dogg\\u201d Williams is best known as the co-writer, with Gary U.S. Bonds, of the cross-genre classic, \\u201cShe\\u2019s All I Got,\\u201d which became a Top 10 R&B single for Freddie North and a #2 country hit for Johnny Paycheck in 1971. Tracy Byrd recorded it in 1996, hitting #4 on\\xa0Billboard\\u2019s Country rankings and introducing the song to a new generation of fans. Williams\\u2019 career began in 1954 when, at the age of 12, he made his first record, \\u201cHTD Blues.\\u201d He found success in the 1960s, recording the Top 40 R&B hit \\u201cBaby You\\u2019re My Everything\\u201d under the name Little Jerry Williams, and writing songs for other artists, including Gene Pitney\\u2019s Top 20 Pop single, \\u201cShe\\u2019s a Heartbreaker.\\u201d He became Atlantic Records\\u2019 first African American staff producer in 1968, but left the following year to pursue independent projects in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. By the 1970s he was an in-demand producer and songwriter, penning Top 40 R&B hits for Doris Duke, Arthur Conley, and Dee Dee Warwick. Around the same time, he reinvented himself as Swamp Dogg, releasing a series of eccentric deep soul albums whose gonzo lyrics were marked by frank sexuality, biting satire, radical politics, and provocative social observations. His debut LP,\\xa0Total Destruction to Your Mind, was eventually certified Gold, while subsequent releases, including\\xa0Gag a Maggott,\\xa0I\\u2019m Not Selling Out \\u2013 I\\u2019m Buying In,\\xa0An Awful Christmas and a Lousy New Year, and\\xa0The White Man Made Me Do It\\xa0have earned considerable accolades among underground music lovers and earned Swamp what one journalist described as \\u201ca cultural niche somewhere between Rudy Ray Moore and Frank Zappa.\\u201d In recent years, his vast catalog has been sampled by Kid Rock, Talib Kweli, DMX, and others.'