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Tony Joe White: Snakey

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Label: Swamp Records
Released: 2002.11.05
Time:
 50:51
Category: Rock, Swamp Rock, Blues, Soul
Producer(s): Tony Joe White, Chet Hinesley
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tonyjoewhite.com
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Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Feeling Snakey (T.J.White) - 5:31
[2] Bayou Bleus (L.White/T.J.White) - 5:45
[3] Nothing I Would Not Do (T.J.White) - 5:26
[4] All Those Tomorrows (Ch.Hinesley/T.J.White) - 4:13
[5] Dark Horse Coming (T.J.White) - 4:49
[6] The Organic Shuffle (T.J.White) - 5:07
[7] Living Off the Land (T.J.White) - 4:34
[8] Rico (T.J.White) - 6:19
[9] Hard Time With Sunday (T.J.White) - 4:48
[10] Taste Like Chicken (T.J.White) - 4:19

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Tony Joe White - Harmonica, Keyboards, Percussion, Sound Effects, Vocals, Producer
Steve "Little Troll" Forrest - Bass
Steve "Boom Boom" Cohen - Drums
Carson "Dr Gloom" Whitsett - Keyboard on [3]

Chet Hinesley - Mastering, Mixing, Producer

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Why Tony Joe White isn't spoken of in the same revered tones as J.J. Cale is a mystery as well as a crime. White invented a brand of greasy, funky, deeply soulful Louisiana bayou rock that's been quoted by everyone from the Neville Brothers and the Meters to Marvin Gaye to the Red Hot Chili Peppers to ZZ Top to Funkadelic to the Cramps to the Gun Club to the White Stripes. Mark Knopfler owes his entire guitar playing approach to White. OK, enough bitching. Snakey is the most aptly titled Tony Joe record in some time. Here that shadowy guitar style, with its serpentine leads and chunky, syncopated chords, catches a groove that is echoed by Little Troll Forrest's basslines punching through the pocket just ahead of Boom Boom Cohen's drumming. The songs - whether it be "Feeling Snakey," with its screaming leads and soulfully regretful message about leaving the booze alone to uncoil the body and mind to boasting about how your woman knows how to make the crawfish boil, or the driving, fuzzed-out high-wire act that is "Bayou Blues" (ZZ Top got the entire Eliminator album from this sound) - are timelessly nasty in the best rock & roll sense of the word, with wickedly sly humor tossed in between lines for measure. Then there's the coolest, most ominous song ever written about hanging out in a health-food store in "The Organic Shuffle," which bleeds into the overdriven swamp-box guitar funkery of "Livin' off the Land." This doesn't mean that Tony Joe isn't capable of tenderness; far from it. "Rico," a gorgeous, slinky, mariachi-tinged country song, is subtitled "(14) Field Worker." It's an empathetic portrait of a migrant worker who accepts his situation while trying not to lose sight of his dreams, which have nothing to do with money. The balls-out funk of "Tastes Like Chicken" is White at his best, letting all of the country, soul, funk, blues, rock, and folk contradictions fall into one another. Lyrically the song is as hilarious as it is spooky, capping off yet another Swamp Fox masterpiece. Oh yeah, not only are there no bad Tony Joe White records, there aren't any mediocre ones, either; this man has the most remarkably consistent track in modern music, beginning in the late '60s and continuing to this day.

Thom Jurek - All Music Guide



Swamp rock? Forget Credence Clearwater Revival. Nice middle-class boys from California, down to their snakeskin boots. Tony Joe White has been the real deal for more than 30 years, part Cherokee and straight out of the Louisiana bayou. His first album since 1998 finds him smouldering pretty much as he has since “Polk Salad Annie”, and the chooglin’ guitars, steamy Southern beats and lyrics about rattlesnakes are as primordial as the swamp itself.

Uncut (8/03, p.112) - 3 stars out of 5



In 1969, Tony Joe White came howling out of the swamplands of Louisiana into the national spotlight with his classic, "Polk Salad Annie"-a Top 10 Hit, followed by Brook Benton's soulful rendition of Tony's timeless classic, "Rainy Night In Georgia" in 1970. Throughout the '70s, Tony Joe toured with some of the biggest artists of the decade including Credence Clearwater Revival and James Taylor. Thirty years later people are still "Searching For Tony Joe"…as witnessed by the award-winning documentary of the same name-winner of the Detroit Film Festival and recently featured in sellout performances at SXSW and The L.A. Film Festival. And thirty years later he's still doing just what he's always done: creating soul-flavored, blues-drenched, truth-injected songs about swamp characters and reflective soul-tinged ballads about life and love.

The 90s began with an explosion of activity as superstar Tina Turner recorded four of Tony Joe's songs, including the world-wide hit, Steamy Windows, on her multi-platinum selling Foreign Affairs album for which Tony produced the title track. With the advent of that project, Tony Joe formed an alliance with manager, Roger Davies and his career began to soar. While there was a certain "mystique" surrounding Tony Joe White in the United States, it was in Europe where he gained legendary status. French audiences eagerly embraced him as the 'Swamp Fox' and in 1991 he signed with Remark and debuted Closer To The Truth. He toured Europe in '91 and '92 with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker among others. He cut two more albums for Remark, The Path Of A Decent Groove and Lake Placid Blues, the latter garnering the first of two nominations for "Best R & B Album" from the Nashville Music Awards, (the second being, The Best Of Tony Joe White, a 1996 retrospective of his work on Warner Bros.). In addition, in1998 he was the subject of a French produced documentary: Tony Joe White-The Man From Down South.

Tony Joe has had songs recorded by dozens of major artists from Elvis to Ray Charles. From Hank, Jr. to Tim McGraw. From John Mayhall to Waylon Jennings, (who has recorded numerous Tony Joe White songs-including the '99 release, Closing In On The Fire). His On Silent Wings, for Tina featured Sting on her best-selling, Wildest Dreams. He has written and performed jingles for McDonalds and Levi's 501 Blues; been featured on movie soundtracks Millenium and Selena, Hotspot (starring Don Johnson), and recently had songs performed by Etta James on two HBO feature films; and worked with Marc Bryan (Hootie & The Blowfish) and Michael McDonald (with whom he recently co-wrote a song recorded by Joe Cocker). The critically heralded One Hot July was released in 1999. Tony Joe went back to his roots and recorded this album in the swamps of Louisiana. This release gave fans a another taste of the sound that made Tony Joe White the origianl Swamp Fox. In 2002, Audium and Koch entertainment released The Beginning. This acoustic masterpiece is getting worldwide recognition and five star ratings in virtually every country. For 2003, Munich Records is proud to announce the release of Snakey, a journey deep into the bayou of Tony Joe's youth.

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