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Tony Joe White: One Hot July

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Label: Mercury Records
Released: 1998
Time:
 65:04
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Roger Davies, Tony Joe White
Rating: *******... (7/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tonyjoewhite.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2000.05.04
Price in €: 15,99



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[1] Crack The Window Baby (White) - 4:13
[2] Gumbo John (White) - 4:15
[3] Across From Midnight (White, White) - 4:39
[4] Goin' Down Rockin' (White) - 4:05
[5] Cold Fingers (White) - 4:32
[6] I Want My Fleetwood Back (White) - 5:04
[7] I Believe I've Lost My Way (White) - 7:00
[8] Don't Over Do It (White) - 3:59
[9] The Delta Singer (White) - 4:35
[10] Ol' Black Crow (White, Chet Hinesley) - 5:34
[11] One Hot July (White) - 6:20
[12] Conjure Woman (White) - 5:35
[13] Selena (White) - 4:33
[14] One Hot July - String Ensemble (White) - 0:40

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Tony Joe White - Guitar and Harmonica

Eric Watkins - Bass Guitar
Carson Whitsett - Keyboards
Marc Cohen - Drums
Luis Conte - Percussion
Michelle White - Synthesizer (on "Ol' Black Crow")
Chet Hinesley - Steak Tongs/Keychain (on "Ol' Black Crow")
Rachel Jordan - String Section (on "One Hot July")
Elizabeth Plju - String Section (on "One Hot July")
Amy L. Thiaville - String Section (on "One Hot July")
Bill Schultz - String Section (on "One Hot July")

Bas Hartong - Executive Producer
Eileen Cleary - Project Management
Chet Hinesley (Tony Joe White's nephew) - Project Management
Gene Foster - Recording at Studio in the Country, Bogalusa, LA
Chris Lord-Alge - Mixing at Image Recording, Los Angeles, CA
Greg Calbi - Mastering at Masterdisk, New York, NY

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To make a long story short: there are two new songs on this album ("Don't Over Do It" - my personal favorite - and "One Hot July") and eleven others which are more or less re-recordings of songs that already appeared on his last three albums (with the exception of "Conjure Woman" - that song originates from his third album "Tony Joe"). Of course - all these well known songs have new words. Don't get me wrong: if you liked what he did on his last albums you'll like this one, too. I would rate it somewhere between "Lake Placid Blues" and "The Path Of A Decent Groove". It doesn't really match the quality of "Closer To The Truth".



With his first album for a new label (named after the birthplace of Elvis, who covered many of White's songs) Tony Joe fashions more tales from the swamps of his childhood and the bedroom where things get even steamier. Crack the Window Baby shows his mojo’s still working and the likes of Gumbo John. And I Want My Fleetwood Back indicate his story telling abilities are intact. Taking lessons. From his own life for his writing as ever, it is easy to swallow his notion that 'they say 1 might be lazy but 1 call it a little laid back' but on what he shows here no one is going to believe he has lost his way or has Cold Fingers. This as consistently fine a record as he has ever made. Blues drenched, yet distilled through R&B, soul and country too, these 13 songs were laid down in quick time (four nights) in a studio in rural Louisiana, after White returned from his 1997 Australian tour. ncluttered with just his harmonica and snaking guitar cutting through the restful haze, White's voice shows the signs of decades of tobacco intake but what it isn't doing for his health sure adds to the mellowness of the mood. In the true spirit of the great bluesmen, White continues to improve with age. And he was hot as hell to begin with.

Polly Coufos
Xpress Magazine in Western Australia (8/4/99)
 

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