Total Destruction to Your Mind

Total Destruction to Your Mind is the debut album by the American musician Swamp Dogg (Jerry Williams, Jr.), released in 1970.

[14] After years as a minor, and conventional, songwriter and singer, Williams adopted the Swamp Dogg persona due to disgust with the music industry, and in order to write about more personal topics; the inspiration came to him while looking through old Atlantic albums in Tom Dowd's office.

"[22] The New Yorker labeled Total Destruction to Your Mind "a crazed, brilliant blast of protest soul that compared favorably with the best work of Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and Funkadelic.

"[25] In 2018, Pitchfork called it "an irreverent, rollicking spin on the southern soul music of Muscle Shoals Sound Studio.

"[26] Reviewing the 2013 rerelease, The Sunday Times called Swamp Dogg "the missing link between Otis Redding and Frank Zappa.