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Tony Joe White: That On the Road Look (Live)

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Label: Rhino Handmade Records
Released: 1971
Time:
 66:44
Category: Rock, Swamp Rock, Blues, Soul
Producer(s): Tony Joe White
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] Roosevelt And Ira Lee (T.J.White) - 5:03
[2] A Night In The Life Of A Swamp Fox (T.J.White) - 6:45
[3] Rainy Night In Georgia (T.J.White) - 4:56
[4] Mississipi River (T.J.White) - 5:02
[5] Lustful Earl And The Married Woman (T.J.White) - 4:09
[6] Willie And Laura Mae Jones (T.J.White) - 5:35
[7] Back To The Country (T.J.White) - 3:33
[8] Band Introduction (T.J.White) - 0:14
[9] Traveling Bone (T.J.White) - 3:56
[10] Stormy Monday (T.J.White) - 5:24
[11] My Kind Of Woman (T.J.White) - 6:03
[12] Polk Salad Annie (T.J.White) - 10:32
[13] That On The Road Look (T.J.White) - 5:34

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Tony Joe White - Voice, Guitar, Harmonica, Whomper Stomper, Producer
Donald "Duck" Dunn - Bass, Yo-yo
Sammy Creason - Drums
Mike Utley - Organ, Piano

Russ Geary - Engineer
Terry Manning - Mixing
Barry Plummer - Photography
Jim Marshall - Photography

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2010 Rhino Handmade RHM2 542696

The “rumored” and previously unreleased 1971 live album.



Before his song “Polk Salad Annie” went Top 10 in 1969, Tony Joe White learned to how to put on a good show as a survival skill while paying his dues in some of Texas and Louisiana’s roughest honky-tonks. His hit led to a U.S. tour where unsuspecting audiences were mesmerized by the guitarist’s fiery performances and his frenzied command of the whomper stomper (aka wah-wah pedal). Rhino Handmade preserves an unreleased 1971 live album from the self-styled Swamp Fox with THAT ON THE ROAD LOOK. The album’s 12 unreleased performances find White locked in watertight with his longtime drummer Sammy Creason and keyboardist Michael Utley along with legendary bassist Donald “Duck” Dunn. Thought to be a rumor for the longest time, not much is known about this unreleased treasure, including the exact location where it was recorded. One thing is certain, the boys rip the roof off of wherever they are for more than an hour, mixing cuts from White’s 1971 Warner Bros. debut – “A Night In The Life Of A Swamp Fox” and “Traveling Bone” – with his earlier recordings for Monument Records – “Roosevelt And Ira Lee” and a 10-minute rave-up of “Polk Salad Annie.” THAT ON THE ROAD LOOK also spotlights White’s uncanny ability to make every song his own with a cover of T-Bone Walker’s “Stormy Monday."Writing in the album’s liner notes, Ben Vaughn says: “What we have here is Exhibit A, proof that the self-named Swamp Fox was a bona fide barnstormer. Or barnburner. Or both. When you cue up this disc, Tony Joe and his three-piece band are already in fourth gear. Later for that lazy, laid-back vibe. What we have here is a sense of purpose.”As for the origin of the album, White believes it could have been recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in London during a tour opening for Creedence Clearwater Revival. White recalls the tour vividly in the liner notes: “Creedence tried to burn us down and we tried to burn them down, ’cause they were goin’ around, ‘Swamp this and swamp that,’ and ol’ Duck and me was real tight—we were fishin’ buddies and we got talkin’ one night, and he told ’em, ‘You know, Fogerty, there ain’t no alligators in Berkeley.’ From then on, it was war every night onstage.”

© 2015 Rhino Entertainment



Existing only as rumors for decades, Tony Joe White’s 1971 live album That on the Road Look finally surfaced as a Rhino Handmade release in the summer of 2010. Specifics about this performance are not known - they were unable to pinpoint where it was recorded, although White maintains it could have come from an opening spot for Creedence Clearwater Revival at Royal Albert Hall - but details don’t quite matter in this case because the music is excellent: thick, sweaty swamp-rock that digs deep and jams long - “Polk Salad Annie” runs 10 minutes - but remains compelling as White works his funky grooves. Sometimes he does this with no more than an acoustic guitar - there’s a stretch in the middle where he performs “Lustful Earl and the Married Woman” and “Willi and Laura Mae Jones” on his own - but the record really cooks when he’s supported by his entire band, turning in hotter performances than he got in the studio. To be sure, this is something of a subtle difference - the arrangements are no different and those studio recordings are pretty funky in their own right - but for those that can’t get enough of Tony Joe White at his peak, this is necessary.

Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide



The latest Rhino Handmade title is That On the Road Look “Live,” a rumored live album by Tony Joe White – finally revealed to be true.

White was a Louisiana-bred guitarist famous mostly for his compositions rather than his own performances. “Polk Salad Annie” was his biggest hit, but it’s primarily known as a concert staple during Elvis’ last decade. “Rainy Night in Georgia” was also his composition, though Brook Benton made it a gold-seller in 1970. But this live set – the recording date and venue of which are unknown – is all White’s. Thirteen tracks, recorded alongside Sammy Creason on drums, Michael Utley on keyboards and Donald “Duck” Dunn on bass guitar, of White burning through his own tunes available on LPs from Warner Bros. and Monument Records, and a cover of “Stormy Monday” to boot. This sounds like it should be a hit for the swamp-rock, Creedence Clearwater Revival-esque crowd (White speculates in the liner notes that the show may indeed come from a show where White opened for CCR).

Mike Duquette - July 29, 2010
Copyright © 2015 The Second Disc



Tony Joe White has made a career out of being laconic, and his matter-of-fact delivery lent a homespun truthfulness to race relations in “Willie and Laura Mae Jones,” a subtle wink to “Polk Salad Annie” and a mournful quality to “Rainy Night in Georgia.” When he dueted with Shelby Lynne on “Can’t Go Back Home,” each sang with the hushed awareness that they’d crossed lines they couldn’t come back from.

The memory of that Tony Joe White makes That on the Road Look Live a revelation. This live album from 1971 featuring MG Duck Dunn on bass presents White in a context closer to the blues bands he musically grew up in, singing with ferocity and raving up many songs past the five minute mark and “Polk Salad Annie” for more than ten.

According to White’s liner notes, the recording came from a Creedence Clearwater Revival tour, where John Fogerty’s swamp imagery collided with a real, live Louisianan. “They tried to burn us down and we tried to burn them down,” White says, and the show is as hot as that suggests without being showy. “A Night in the Life of a Swamp Fox”—White’s “Ballad of John and Yoko”—moves with the drive of a song that knows it’s running late and will do so again tomorrow, even as it documents the indignities of the road. The live version of “Polk Salad Annie” was clearly the blueprint for Elvis’ treatment.

As powerful as the band is, White plays a number of songs on his own with just his acoustic guitar, and the effect is sufficiently entrancing that when someone unplugs him near the end of a song, he announces he was unplugged, finishes the song and the audience loved it as if nothing happened. He plays “Willie and Laura Mae Jones” on the acoustic, letting the story’s drama play out on its own terms. Those moments serve as a reminder that Tony Joe White not only has one of rock’s most singular voices and grooves, but songs that hold up, despite being from “another place and another time.”

Alex Rawls - September 1, 2010
© 2015 Offbeat Magazine



Tony Joe White is, by radio standards, a "one-hit wonder."  His Polk Salad Annie reached number 8 in 1969 and he never made the top forty again, yet his long career continues today for those who love swamp rock and Americana and his song Rainy Night in Georgia (a hit for Brook Benton) has become a standard.

Rhino Handmade has unearthed a rare recording of a 1971 show by White with support from drummer Sammy Creason, keyboard player Mike Utley (now with Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band) and legendary bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn.  Little is known about the show, including the venue, although liner notes writer Ben Vaughn thinks it may have been from a Royal Albert Hall concert in London opening for Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Vaughn writes in the liner notes "What we have here is Exhibit A, proof that the self-named Swamp Fox was a bona fide barnstormer. Or barnburner. Or both. When you cue up this disc, Tony Joe and his three-piece band are already in fourth gear. Later for that lazy, laid-back vibe. What we have here is a sense of purpose."

Included are versions of Rainy Night in Georgia, Roosevelt and Ira Lee, T-Bone Walker's Stormy Monday and a ten-minute version of Polk Salad Annie.  

vintagevinylnews.com



In the life of every gifted bandleader comes one tour where everything clicks: the right band, the right songs, the moment when technical command ripens before inspiration declines. For Tony Joe White, it was his 1971 tour as the opening act for Creedence Clearwater Revival in Europe and North America. The band featured bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, keyboardist Michael Utley and drummer Sammy Creason.

A long-lost tape from that tour (no one is sure of the date or place) has been released as "That on the Road Look." Louisiana native White embodied the swampy country-soul sound that California's Creedence was trying to imitate. A funky guitarist and fine blues singer, White sang five songs alone with acoustic guitar and/or harmonica, one R&B ballad and six stomping swamp-rockers that climaxed in a 10-minute "Polk Salad Annie" of excruciating tension and exhilarating release. This is one of the greatest live rock-and-roll albums of all time.

At 67, White knows his high-voltage days are behind him, so he wisely takes an understated approach to his new studio album, "The Shine." Unfortunately, he understates his 10 original songs so much- murmuring the vocals over his quartet's laid-back picking - that they seem more sleepy than subtle. It's too bad, for the legendary songwriter has come up with some terrific tunes - "Ain't Doing Nobody No Good," "All" and "Long Way From the River" - that deserve to boil rather than simmer.

Geoffrey Himes - October 22, 2010
© 2010 The Washington Post
 

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