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American musician (1943–2018)

Tony Joe White
Tony Joe White with guitar.jpg
Groundwork data
As well known as Swamp Fox
Born July 23, 1943
Louisiana, U.S.
Origin Oak Grove, Louisiana, U.S.
Died October 24, 2018(2018-10-24) (aged 75)
Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Genres Swamp rock, funk, dejection
Occupation(due south) Musician, songwriter
Instruments Guitar, vocals, harmonica
Years active 1967–2018
Labels Monument, Warner Bros., Polydor, Aye Roc, Like shooting fish in a barrel Eye Audio
Website tonyjoewhite.com

Musical artist

Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox,[ane] was an American vocalist-songwriter and guitarist, all-time known for his 1969 hitting "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Nighttime in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular past Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Hush-hush Agent for the Dejection", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the fourth dimension, Mark Knopfler, who was a friend of White. "Polk Salad Annie" was also recorded by Joe Dassin, Elvis Presley, and Tom Jones.

Biography [edit]

Tony Joe White was the youngest of seven children who grew upwardly on a cotton farm near Oak Grove, Due west Carroll Parish, Louisiana, U.s.a..[2] His song "One-time Man Willis" takes place in West Carroll Parish. He first began performing music at schoolhouse dances, and after graduating from high schoolhouse he performed in night clubs in Texas and Louisiana.[3]

1960s–1970s [edit]

In 1967, White signed with Monument Records, which operated from a recording studio in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville, Tennessee, and produced a variety of sounds, including rock and gyre, country and western, and rhythm and blues. Billy Swan was his producer on his beginning 3 albums.[two]

Over the next three years, White released iv singles with no commercial success in the U.S., although "Soul Francisco" was a striking in France. "Polk Salad Annie" had been released for nine months and written off equally a failure by his tape label when it finally entered the U.Southward. charts in July 1969.[2] It climbed to the Top Ten by early August and somewhen reached No. 8, becoming White'southward biggest hit.

White's starting time album, 1969's Blackness and White,[4] was recorded with Musculus Shoals/Nashville musicians David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan, and featured "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" and "Polk Salad Annie", along with a cover of Jimmy Webb'due south "Wichita Lineman". "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" was covered by Dusty Springfield[2] and released as a single, later added to reissues of her 1969 anthology Dusty in Memphis.

Iii more than singles quickly followed, all small hits, and White toured with Steppenwolf, Anne Murray, Sly & the Family unit Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival and other major rock acts of the 1970s, playing in France, Frg, Belgium, Sweden and England.

In 1973, White appeared in the pic Catch My Soul, a rock-opera adaption of Shakespeare'due south Othello. White played and sang 4 songs and composed seven for the musical.

In late September 1973, White was recruited by record producer Huey Meaux to sit in on the Memphis sessions that became Jerry Lee Lewis'southward Southern Roots anthology.[5] These sessions were a three-day, around-the-clock party, which not only reunited the original MGs (Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. of Booker T. and the MGs fame) for the first time in iii years, merely also featured Carl Perkins, Mark Lindsay (of Paul Revere & the Raiders), and Wayne Jackson plus The Memphis Horns.

1980s [edit]

From 1976 to 1983, White released three more albums, all on different labels. Trying to combine his own swamp-rock audio with the popular disco music at the fourth dimension, the results were not met with success and White gave upwards his career as a singer and concentrated on writing songs. During this fourth dimension frame, he collaborated with American expat Joe Dassin on his merely English-linguistic communication album, Dwelling Made Ice Cream, and its French-language counterpart, Blueish Country.

1990s comeback [edit]

In 1989, White produced i non-single runway on Tina Turner's Foreign Affair anthology, the rest of the album being produced by Dan Hartman. Playing a variety of instruments on the album, he also wrote iv songs,[4] including the title song and the hit unmarried "Steamy Windows".[two] As a result of this he became managed by Roger Davies, who was Turner's manager at the time, and he obtained a new contract with Polydor.

The resulting anthology, 1991'southward Closer to the Truth, was a commercial success[ commendation needed ] and put White back in the spotlight. He released two more albums for Polydor: The Path of a Decent Groove and Lake Placid Blues, which was co-produced past Roger Davies.

In the 1990s, White toured Federal republic of germany and France with Joe Cocker and Eric Clapton, and in 1992 he played the Montreux Festival. During the late 1990s, White also toured with Waylon Jennings.

In 1996, Tina Turner released the vocal "On Silent Wings" written by White.

2000s [edit]

In 2000, Hip-O Records released One Hot July in the U.South., giving White his first new major-label domestic release in 17 years. The critically acclaimed The Get-go appeared on Swamp Records in 2001, followed by Heroines, featuring several duets with female vocalists including Jessi Colter, Shelby Lynne, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Michelle White, on Sanctuary in 2004, and a alive Austin Metropolis Limits concert, Live from Austin, TX, on New West Records in 2006. In 2004, White was the featured guest artist in an episode of the Legends Rock Television receiver Show and Concert Series, produced by Megabien Entertainment.

In 2007, White released some other alive recording, Take Dwelling the Swamp, every bit well as the compilation Introduction to Tony Joe White. Elkie Brooks recorded one of White'southward songs, "Out of The Rain", on her 2005 Electric Lady album. On July 14, 2006, in Magny-Cours, French republic, White performed as a warm-up act for Roger Waters' The Night Side of the Moon concert. White's album, entitled Uncovered, was released in September 2006 and featured collaborations with Mark Knopfler, Michael McDonald, Eric Clapton, and J.J. Cale.

The song "Elements and Things" from the 1969 album ...Continued features prominently during the horse-racing scenes in the 2012 HBO television series "Luck".

In 2013, White signed to Yep Roc Records and released Hoodoo.[6] Female parent Jones called the album "Steamy, Irresistible"[seven] and No Depression noted Tony Joe White is "the real rex of the swamp".[8] He as well fabricated his Alive...with Jools Kingdom of the netherlands debut in London, playing songs from Hoodoo.[nine]

On October xv, 2014, White appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman aslope the Foo Fighters to perform "Polk Salad Annie". Pointing to White, Letterman told his TV audience, "Holy cow! ... If I was this guy, yous could all kiss my ass. And I hateful that."[ten]

In May 2016, Tony Joe White released Rain Crow on Yeah Roc Records.[xi] The atomic number 82 track "Hoochie Woman" was co-written with his wife, Leann.[11] The rails "Conjure Kid" is a follow up to an earlier song, "Conjure Adult female".[eleven]

The album Bad Mouthin' was released in September 2018 once more on Yep Roc Records. The anthology contains six self-penned songs and five blues standards written by, amongst others, Charley Patton and John Lee Hooker. On the album White besides performs a cover of the Elvis Presley song "Heartbreak Hotel". White plays acoustic and electrical guitar on the album which was produced past his son Jody White and information technology has a signature Tony Joe White laidback audio.[12]

The posthumous album Smoke from the Chimney was released May vii, 2021, on Easy Centre Sound. The album features nine vocal and guitar demo recordings of White, fully realized and arranged by producer Dan Auerbach. The tracks characteristic many tiptop Nashville session players, including drummer Gene Chrisman, keyboardist Bobby Forest, bassist Dave Roe, guitarist Marcus King, and others.[13]

Death [edit]

White died of a heart attack on October 24, 2018, at the age of 75.[14] [1] "He wasn't ill at all. He just had a heart assail...there was no pain or suffering", said his son, Jody White. He died at his dwelling house in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee.[15]

Discography [edit]

  • 1969 – Black and White (Monument Records #18114)
  • 1969 – ...Continued (Monument Records #18133)
  • 1970 – Tony Joe (Monument Records #18142)
  • 1971 – The Best Of Tony Joe White (Monument Records #10000) – compilation of the three Monument albums. (No U.S. release)
  • 1971 – Tony Joe White (Warner Bros. Records #1900)
  • 1972 – The Train I'g On (Warner Bros. Records #2580)
  • 1973 – Homemade Ice Foam (Warner Bros. Records #2708)
  • 1973 – Catch My Soul – original soundtrack (Metromedia Records/RCA #BML1-0176)
  • 1975 – The All-time Of Tony Joe White (Warner Bros. [UK] Records #56149) – compilation of the 3 Warner Bros. albums.
  • 1976 – Eyes (20th Century Records #T-523)
  • 1980 – The Real Thang (Casablanca Records #NB-7233)
  • 1983 – Unsafe (Columbia Records #FC-38817)
  • 1986 – Tony Joe White Live! (Dixiefrog [France] Records #DFG-8407) – a alive recording from 1971.
  • 1991 – Closer to the Truth (Remark Records/Polydor #511 386–2; likewise on Swamp Records #723-two)
  • 1993 – The Path Of A Decent Groove (Remark Records/Polydor #519 938–2)
  • 1993 – The Best Of Tony Joe White Featuring Polk Salad Annie (Warner Bros. Records #45305) – CD compilation
  • 1995 – Lake Placid Blues (Remark Records/Polydor #527 530–2)
  • 1997 – Collection (RDM Festival [Commonwealth of australia] Records #D-31737) – compilation
  • 1998 – Live In Europe 1971 (Wise Buy Records #WB-885972; as well on Delta Music #MCPS-23114) – a release of earlier alive and possibly bootleg concert textile.
  • 1998 – Groupie Girl (Movieplay/Intermusic #MPG 74023) – another release of earlier live and perchance bootleg concert material.
  • 1999 – One Hot July (Remark Records/Polydor #558 894–ii; reissued on Hip-O Records/Mercury #562 720–2)
  • 2000 – Greatest Hits And More (Polydor [Netherlands] Records #541 396–two) – 2CD compilation
  • 2000 – Tony Joe White In Concert (Brilliant [Great britain] Records #BT-33053) – a live recording from 1969 or 1970. *** Notation: this material has besides been issued equally Difficult To Handle on Fruit Tree [Italy] Records #FT-836; as Polk Salad Annie Live on Wonderful Music Of [Netherlands] Records #90382; and as Night Of The Moccasin (#250022) and Have Domicile The Swamp (#250096) on Music Avenue [Belgium] Records.
  • 2001 – The Kickoff (Swamp Records #82268 55520 21; reissued on Audium Records/Koch #8139)
  • 2002 – Snakey (Swamp Records #75887 70724 21; also on Munich [Netherlands] Records #MRCD-241)
  • 2003 – Dangerous Eyes (Raven [Australia] Records #RVCD-159) – CD reissue/compilation of 1976's Optics and 1983'south Dangerous.
  • 2004 – The Heroines (Sanctuary Records #06076 86366 20)
  • 2006 – Live From Austin TX (New West Records #NW-6092) – a live recording from 1980.
  • 2006 – Uncovered (Swamp Records #75887 70724 38; also on Munich [Netherlands] Records #MRCD-279)
  • 2006 – Swamp Music: The Consummate Monument Recordings (Rhino Handmade Records #RHM2 7731) – limited edition four-CD box fix compilation
  • 2008 – Live At The Basement (ZYX/Pepper Records #PEC-20392) – a live recording from 2002.
  • 2008 – Deep Cuts (Swamp Records #75887 70834 34; as well on Munich [Netherlands] Records #MRCD-295)
  • 2010 – The Smooth (Swamp Records #82268 57220 28; also on Munich [Netherlands] Records #MRCD-323)
  • 2010 – That On The Road Look 'Live' (Rhino Handmade Records #RHM2 542696) – reissue of the Dixiefrog release.
  • 2010 – Live In Amsterdam (Munich [Netherlands] Records #MRCD-325) – CD + DVD philharmonic
  • 2011 – Tony Joe White Collection (Cargo [Germany] Records #87121 770583 ten) – 3CD compilation
  • 2012 – Collected (Universal [Poland] Music #6007 533767 06) – 3CD compilation
  • 2013 – Hoodoo (Yep Roc Records #2348)
  • 2015 – The Consummate Warner Bros. Recordings (Real Gone Music #8480 640032 98) – 2CD compilation
  • 2015 – Swamp Fox: The Definitive Drove 1968–1973 (Marriage Square [United kingdom] Records #6984 588225 29) – 2CD compilation
  • 2016 – Rain Crow (Yep Roc Records #2450)
  • 2018 – Bad Mouthin' (Yep Roc Records #2593)[16]
  • 2021 – Fume from the Chimney (Easy Eye Audio)

References [edit]

  1. ^ a b "Tony Joe White, 'Swamp Rock' Singer and Songwriter, Dies at 75". nytimes.com. October 25, 2018. Archived from the original on Oct 26, 2018. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Curtailed ed.). Virgin Books. p. 1247/viii. ISBN1-85227-745-9.
  3. ^ "Tony Joe White biography". IMDb.com . Retrieved July four, 2015.
  4. ^ a b Bush, John. "Tony Joe White: Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved May 8, 2011.
  5. ^ "Jerry Lee Lewis – Southern Roots (2CD Ready) | Louisiana Music Mill".
  6. ^ "Tony Joe White'due south Steamy 'Hoodoo' Stone". Npr.org. November xxx, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  7. ^ Jon Young. "Tony Joe White's Steamy, Irresistable [sic] "Hoodoo"". Motherjones.com . Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  8. ^ Lehmann, Ted (June 25, 2015). "CD Review: Hoodoo – Tony Joe White". Nodepression.com . Retrieved July iv, 2015.
  9. ^ "BBC Two – Later... with Jools Holland, Series 43 Live, Episode 2". Bbc.co.great britain. September 24, 2013. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  10. ^ "Foo Fighters with Tony Joe White 'Polk Salad Annie' David Letterman". YouTube. Archived from the original on Dec 22, 2021. Retrieved July 4, 2015.
  11. ^ a b c from an interview on Americana Music Show #300, published May 17, 2016
  12. ^ "Tony Joe White – Bad Mouthin'". Bluesmagazine.nl. June 13, 2018. Retrieved Oct 20, 2018.
  13. ^ Warren, Bruce (February xviii, 2021). "How Dan Auerbach Made An Album With Tony Joe White'south Previously Unreleased Demos". NPR . Retrieved Feb 24, 2021.
  14. ^ "State bluesman, hit songwriter Tony Joe White dies". ABC News. Archived from the original on October 26, 2018. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
  15. ^ "'Polk Salad Annie' songwriter Tony Joe White dead at 75, family cites heart attack". European union.usatoday.com . Retrieved November 11, 2018.
  16. ^ Gage, Jeff (June 7, 2018). "Hear Tony Joe White'south Gritty New Version of 'Bad Mouthin'". Rolling Stone . Retrieved September 28, 2018.

External links [edit]

  • Official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Joe_White

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