Best of Tony Joe White
by Tony Joe White$10.95 Free Shipping
- Released
- 17/12/89
- Music Genre
- Blues, Folk
Description
Twenty tracks from 1969-73, the period of 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 downhome 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.
Product Details
- Artist
- Tony Joe White
- Year of release
- 1993
- Label / Studio
- WAR
- Media Content Format
- Album
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #21559
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Number of Discs
- 1
- Run Time (minutes)
- 69
- Original year of release
- 1993
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #15281
- Cast & Crew
- Tony Joe White (Music Performer)
- Gregg Geller (Compilation) (Producer)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
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Polk Salad Annie
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Soul Francisco
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Willie and Laura Mae Jones
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Rainy Night in Georgia
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Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Mossacin)
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Stockholm Blues
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High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish
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Old Man Willis
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Train I'm On
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If I Ever Saw a Good Thing
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As the Crow Files
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Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll
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Backwoods Preacher Man
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Takin' the Midnight Train
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Did Somebody Make a Fool Out of You
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They Caught the Devil and Put Him in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas
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Saturday Night in Oak Grove Louisiana
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I've Got a Thing About You Baby
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For Ol' Times Sake
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Ol' Mother Earth
