Swampblood

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Andrew Gilstrap of popmatters.com rated the album at 7/10, commenting, "Swampblood finds the band in something of a high-octane back-to-basics blues mode".[2] Embo Blake of HybridMagazine noted that the band, in this album, "maintain[ed] their distinctive sound and superb musical quality".[3] Keith Carman, writing in Fast Forward Weekly (of Calgary), considered, "Swampblood is as weird as it is wicked, as slick as it is sinister and sensational".[4]

1. "Dawn" – 0:34
2. "Old Spur Line" – 3:47
3. "Hellwater" – 2:12
4. "Easter Flesh" – 2:16
5. "Swampblood" – 3:10
6. "Dusk" – 0:16
7. "Cheat the Hangman" – 1:36
8. "Born Again Again" – 2:18
9. "The Deadenin'" – 2:48
10. "Down and Out" – 3:11
11. "Jimblyleg Man" – 2:39
12. "He Ain't Right" – 2:10
13. "Angel Lust" – 1:55
14. "Preachin' at Traffic" – 1:38
15. "When I Die" – 1:14
16. "Bright and Sunny South" – 1:02

Swampblood is the third and final installment of the "Southern Gothic" rock band Th' Legendary Shack Shakers' "Tentshow Trilogy", which began with Believe in 2004, and continued with Pandelirium in 2006. The subject matter of Believe was that of a tent revival, and of Pandelirium a circus sideshow. The tent theme surrounding Swampblood is of a graveside funeral service.[5]

• Col. J.D. Wilkes – vocals, mouth harps, piano, organs, tape effects
• Mark Robertson – upright bass, bass guitar, baritone guitars, bgvs
• DavidLee – guitar
• Brett Whitacre – drums
• Steve Mabee – engineer, mixing

• Rich Gilbert – saw on "The Deadening"
• Jordan Richter – additional engineering on "Born Again Again"
• Paulie Simmons – drums on "Born Again Again"
• Steve Latanation – shaker, backing vocals
• Ward Stout – fiddle
• Fats Kaplan – mandolin on "Born Again Again"
• Kristi Rose – backing vocals on "Born Again Again"
• Jack Irwin – piano and organ on "Born Again Again"