Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted

The movie offers full-on immersion, or perhaps submersion, in Swamp Dogg’s world.

Overall, Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted is good for a few laughs, possibly some tears and a level of reflection that is at least adjacent to profundity.

Music documentaries have been almost irritatingly omnipresent in recent years, but “Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted” is a refreshing change of pace that should delight even the most genre-fatigued viewer.

Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted acts simultaneously as a celebration of the guy as well as a clear introduction and character sketch.

A pleasure on several levels: the discovery of a fascinating musician and his role in a remarkable variety of hit songs, a emblematically American version of a resolute original, and a near idyllic story of a life of creation.

Swamp Dogg on camera feels so blisteringly authentic that it’s near impossible to imagine he’s any different once the lights go off.

Among its many other virtues, "Gets His Pool Painted" underlines how much better the world would be if more people lived in such situations, bonded by professional and personal affinity.

I’m ashamed to say I’d never heard of Jerry Williams, or his alter ego, “Swamp Dogg,” before directors Isaac Gale and Ryan Olson brought him to my attention. And, boy, am I thankful that they did.

...uses unconventional methods to tell us a fascinating musical history. And it's just a plain old great hang.


Smartly eschews the "could have been huge" narrative for one that's more nuanced, empathetic and turns traditional notions of showbiz success on its head.