Raw Spitt

Raw Spitt was the pseudonym used by singer <a href="spotify:artist:6tQ9qv3wEzIG8OBO50bl58">Charlie Whitehead</a> on the <a href="spotify:artist:6ZEUa75BqZkvpjhuVzCsdX">Swamp Dogg</a>-produced 1970 album Raw Spitt, as well as on the 1971 non-LP single "Songs to Sing"/"That Ain't My Wife." As <a href="spotify:artist:6ZEUa75BqZkvpjhuVzCsdX">Swamp Dogg</a> also co-wrote or wholly wrote most of the songs released under the Raw Spitt name, while <a href="spotify:artist:6tQ9qv3wEzIG8OBO50bl58">Whitehead</a> only contributed to the composition of one of those songs, Raw Spitt sometimes seemed at least as much of a <a href="spotify:artist:6ZEUa75BqZkvpjhuVzCsdX">Swamp Dogg</a> project as a <a href="spotify:artist:6tQ9qv3wEzIG8OBO50bl58">Whitehead</a> one. The Raw Spitt LP, like much of <a href="spotify:artist:6ZEUa75BqZkvpjhuVzCsdX">Swamp Dogg</a>'s material from the period, is likeable gritty early-'70s soul with dashes of funk and rock, as well as some reflective and humorous lyrics about African-American identity, racial/social injustice, and sex. It's not as eccentric as <a href="spotify:artist:6ZEUa75BqZkvpjhuVzCsdX">Swamp Dogg</a>'s own output, however, and <a href="spotify:artist:6tQ9qv3wEzIG8OBO50bl58">Whitehead</a>'s voice is both less colorful and distinctive than that of his producer. <a href="spotify:artist:6tQ9qv3wEzIG8OBO50bl58">Whitehead</a> also recorded under his own name in the late '60s and 1970s, collaborating with <a href="spotify:artist:6ZEUa75BqZkvpjhuVzCsdX">Swamp Dogg</a> on those as well. The entire Raw Spitt album, as well as the "Songs to Sing"/"That Ain't My Wife" single, was issued as part of the 2006 CD compilation Songs to Sing: The Charlie Whitehead Anthology 1970-76. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi