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The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings
Tony Joe White
The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings
Tony Joe White
The late, great, Louisiana-born Tony Joe White first gained fame mainly
through his songwriting; 1969's "Polk Salad Annie" was his only Top
Ten hit, but artists such as Dusty Springfield ("Willie and Laura Mae
Jones"), Brook Benton ("Rainy Night in Georgia") and Elvis Presley
("For Ol' Times Sake"; "I've Got a Thing About You Baby") took his
songs to the charts. But White was always been a singular performer
in his own right; the honeyed burr of his baritone, his alternately tough
and tender vocal delivery and liberal use of his "whomper stomper"
wah-wah pedal lend him a completely distinctive sound. Simply
put, nobody, but nobody, sounds like Tony Joe White, and on this
2-CD collection, we've rounded up all three of the classic albums
he recorded for Warner Bros. in the early '70s--all of which are out of print and
costing a mint online--plus non-LP singles to create The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings. Recorded
in Memphis (partly at Ardent Studios of Big Star fame), 1971's Tony Joe White paired him with producer
Peter Asher (James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt) and shifted the focus slightly from the fuzz-drenched swamp rock
of White's Monument recordings to a more introspective style, though "They Caught the Devil and Put Him
in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas" and "My Kind of Woman" could blow the doors off any roadhouse south of the
Mason-Dixon line. White's next album, 1972's The Train I'm On, continued this gentler, more vulnerable style to
great effect; produced by the legendary team of Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd, with the mighty Muscle Shoals
sessioneers in support, Train's set of songs tackled complex themes of dislocation, alienation and loss with a
blend of blues, soul and folk highlighted by some beautiful acoustic guitar work by White and Tippy Armstrong.
It's a masterpiece. And 1973's Homemade Ice Cream might be even better; White's original version of "For
Ol' Times Sake" is just devastating, and "I Want Love ('Tween You and Me)," "Taking the Midnight Train"
and the title track are every bit as good. Co-producer Tom Dowd and a crack band of guitarist Reggie Young,
bassist Norbert Putnam, drummer Kenny Malone and keyboardist David Briggs catch every nuance of these
deceptively simple songs.
//INCL. 6 NON-LP SINGLES
Medie | Musik CD (Compact Disc) |
Antal discs | 2 |
Udgivet | 5. november 2021 |
EAN/UPC | 0848064003298 |
Udgiver | Real Gone RG329 |
Genre | R&b |
Mål | 216 g |
Trackliste
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1. CD
- They Caught the Devil and Put Him in Jail in Eudora, Arkansa
- The Change
- My Kind of Woman
- The Daddy
- Black Panther Swamps
- Five Summers for Jimmy
- A Night in the Life of a Swamp Fox
- Traveling Bone
- I Just Walked Away
- Copper Kettle
- Voodoo Village
- Lustful Earl and the Married Woman
- Delta Love
- That on the Road Look the Train I'm on
- I've Got a Thing About You Baby
- The Family
- If I Ever Saw a Good Thing
- Beouf River Road
- The Train I'm on
- Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll
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2. CD
- As the Crow Flies
- Take Time to Love
- 300 Pounds of Hongry
- The Migrant
- Sidewalk Hobo
- The Gospel Singer Homemade Ice Cream
- Saturday Night in Oak Grove Louisiana
- For Ol' Times Sake
- I Want Love (Tween You and Me)
- Homemade Ice Cream
- Ol' Mother Earth
- Lazy
- California on My Mind
- Backwoods Preacher Man
- Takin' the Midnight Train
- No News is Good News
- Did Somebody Make a Fool out of You
- Sign of the Lion
- Don't Let the Door (Hit You in the Butt)
- Wishful Thinking