" We'll all be dead in a hundred years "
The S.G. SWAIN STORY
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| S.G. started early in what would be a an eclectic life of music and literature. |
Rehersal photo from the 1976 never released but often bootlegged album "Never Mind the Noise, We're the Rock Bottom Band". |
| A rare photo from the 1950's shows S.G. Sr. with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. (Yes, it's really them.) Bluegrass historians have long speculated that he was the ghost writer of many Flatt and Scruggs' works. The young S.G. spent many a late evening watching his father and the boys work out new songs. S.G. Sr. also bears a striking resembalance to Lee Harvey Oswald, a fact recently brought out in one of Oliver Stone's many conspiracy theories. |  |
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Another influence in S.G.'s development was his Uncle Russell; shown here in a rare color photo. Uncle Russell instilled the values of hard work for little pay, allowing S.G. to cope with his early years in the music business. | ||
| Ginny Mitchum, S.G.'s first childhood sweetheart, who broke his heart deeply, and inspired many of his early songs of loveloss, pity, grief, and despair, and later became a major character in WARREN GRUBBER'S GUTS the first novel by Swain. |  |
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| S.G. at Jefferson's Monticello in '76 and at Mark Twain's grave in Elmira, New York in '85. Mark Twain has been a major literary influence and his all time personal hero. |
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| S.G. was inspired to rock after attending Doobie Brothers Concert in Richmond Virginia. Subsequently showed up on album cover of "Vices". |  |
 TO S.G. SWAIN'S MUSIC
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| (If you're now wondering "What the hell?") |