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Tony Joe White: Best of Tony Joe White

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Label: Warner Bros. Records
Released: 1973
Time:
 69:59
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Tony Joe White, Peter Asher, Tom Dowd
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tonyjoewhite.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 1999.12.18
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] Polk Salad Annie (White) - 3:41
[2] Soul Francisco (White) - 1:55
[3] Willie And Laura Mae Jones (White) - 4:54
[4] Rainy Night In Georgia (White) - 3:40
[5] Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The... (White) - 3:02
[6] Stockholm Blues (White) - 3:22
[7] High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parrish (White) - 3:48
[8] Old Man Willis (White) - 3:09
[9] The Train I'm On (White) - 3:08
[10] If i Ever Saw A Good Thing (White) - 3:19
[11] As The Crow Flies (White) - 3:48
[12] Even Trolls Love Rock And Roll (White) - 4:48
[13] Backwoods Preacher Man (White) - 2:45
[14] Takin' The Midnight Train (White) - 4:03
[15] Did Somebody Make A Fool Out Of You (White) - 4:14
[16] They Caught The Devil And Put Him In... (White) - 3:47
[17] Saturday Night In Oak Grove,... (White) - 2:11
[18] I've Got A Thing About You Baby (White) - 2:40
[19] For Ol' Times Sake (White) - 3:45
[20] Ol' Mother Earth (White) - 3:05

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Tony Joe White - Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals

Tippy Armstrong - Acoustic Guitar
Ronnie Barron - Conga, Organ, Electric Piano, Vibraphone
Barry Beckett - Clavinet, Organ, Piano
David Briggs - Keyboards, Organ, Piano
Jerry Carrigan - Drums
Charles Chalmers - Saxophone, Background Vocals
Lou Collins - Tenor Saxophone
Sammy Creason - Drums
Jack Hale - Trombone
Roger Hawkins - Cowbell, Drums, Jew's-Harp, Maraccas
David Hood - Bass
Roger Hopps - Trumpet
John Hughey - Pedal Steel Guitar
Wayne Jackson - Trumpet
Andrew Love - Tenor Saxophone
Kenny Malone - Drums
Tommy McClure - Bass
Robert McGuffie - Bass
James Milhart - Drums
James Mitchell - Baritone Saxophone
Nashville Horns
Norbert Putnam - Bass
Mike Utley - Organ

Jerry Masters - Background Vocals
Donna Rhodes - Background Vocals
Sandra Rhodes - Background Vocals
George Soulé - Background Vocals
Tom Dowd -  Background Vocals
Terry Woodford - Background Vocals

Tom Dowd - Arranger, Producer
Gregg Geller - Compilation Producer
Jeri Heiden - Art Direction
Lee Herschberg - Digital Mastering
Robert K. Oermann - Liner Notes
Bergen White - Arranger

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s

1973 LP Warner Bros. 56149
1993 CD Warner Bros. 45305
1993 CS Warner Bros. 45305
1994 CD Warner Archives 45305
1994 CD BCD 74177
1998 CD BCD 74177



Tony Joe White has parlayed his songwriting talent into a modestly successful country and rock career in Europe as well as America. Born July 23, 1943, in Goodwill, LA, White was born into a part-Cherokee family. He began working clubs in Texas during the mid-'60s, and moved to Nashville by 1968. White's 1969 debut album for Monument, Black and White, featured his Top Ten pop hit "Polk Salad Annie" and another charting single, "Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Moccasin)." That same year, Dusty Springfield reached the charts with his "Willie and Laura Mae Jones." Brook Benton recorded a version of White's "Rainy Night in Georgia" that hit number four early in 1970; the song has since become a near-standard with over 100 credits. Tony Joe White's own "Groupie Girl" began his European success with a short stay on the British charts in 1970.

White moved to Warner Brothers in 1971, but success eluded him on his three albums - Tony Joe White, The Train I'm On and Homemade Ice Cream. Other stars, however, continued to keep his name on the charts during the '70s: Elvis charted with "For Ol' Times Sake" and "I've Got a Thing About You Baby" (Top Five on the Country charts), and Hank Williams, Jr. took "A Rainy Night in Georgia" to number 13 Country. White himself recorded Eyes for 20th Century Fox in 1976, but then disappeared for four years. He signed to Casablanca for 1980's The Real Thang but moved to Columbia in 1983 for Dangerous, which included the modest country hits "The Lady in My Life" and "We Belong Together."

Tony Joe White was inactive through much of the '80s, but worked with Tina Turner on her 1989 Foreign Affair album, writing four songs and playing guitar and harmonica. He released Closer to the Truth a year later for his own Swamp label, and toured with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker to very receptive French crowds. (Closer to the Truth has sold 100, 000 copies in that country alone.) His 1993 album Path of a Decent Groove was released only in France, though Warner's The Best of Tony Joe White earned an American release the same year. One Hot July followed in 1999.

John Bush - All Music Guide



Twenty tracks from 1969-1973, the period of Tony Joe White's greatest success, including "Polk Salad Annie" and White's own version of his composition "Rainy Night in Georgia." Most of this is quality swamp rock with pop-soul-conscious production; on cuts like "High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish," it sounds very much like he was trying to achieve a groove in the mold of Bobbie Joe Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe." Sometimes he gets real down-home in a stomping backwoods blues style that makes him sound a little like a White counterpart to John Lee Hooker, as on "Stockholm Blues." If there's any criticism to be levied against this music, it's in its occasional lack of variety, White mining staple swamp rock boogie riffs for all they're worth. However, few, if any, performers and writers were as skilled as White in doing so, and he has a fine knack for sharp storytelling lyrics.

Richie Unterberger - All Music Guide



Tony Joe Whites grummelnde Südstaatenstimme wird primär mit seinem Swamp- Rockhit von 1969, Polk Salad Annie, verbunden. Kaum registriert wurde jedoch, wie erfolgreich der Gitarrist aus Louisiana als Autor war: für Elvis Presley (I've Got A Thing About You Baby), Brook Benton (Rainy Night In Georgia) und - erst in jüngerer Zeit - Tina Turner (Steamy Windows). 20 Stücke aus seinen sechs Alben von 1969 bis '73 bündeln Whites Talente in 70 Minuten zum Midprice so kompakt, daß sein sumpfiger Southern Rhythm'n Blues bestimmt neue Liebhaber findet.

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Tony Joe White, vielen erst durch seine Zusammenarbeit mit Tina Turner ein Begriff, debütierte als engagierter Folksinger Ende der 60er Jahre: "Willie And Laura Mae Jones" oder "Polk Salad Annie" waren treffsichere Songstudien aus dem amerikanischen Süden. Die CD "Best Of" macht mit Whites Swamp Music vertraut, einer Mischung aus Rhythm & Blues, Country-Klängen und kreolischem Jazz. ** Interpret.: 06-09 ** Klang.: 05-06

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