Tony Joe White: Collected 2LP 180g Vinyl

Why you'll love it

This Music On Vinyl 2LP set comes on 180g vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with liner notes. It runs from White's 1969 Top 10 hit "Polk Salad Annie" to "Steamy Windows," a hit for Tina Turner in 1989.

This edition

2LP set
180g vinyl
Gatefold jacket
Liner notes included
Numbered

About the album

They called him the Swamp Fox, and it fit. Tony Joe White grew up on a cotton farm in Goodwill, Louisiana, fell for Lightnin' Hopkins records, and started writing songs after hearing Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe." What came out was a sound all his own: low, growling vocals over murky guitar, somewhere between country, blues and soul.

Collected follows that sound across the decades. "Rainy Night In Georgia" is the song he wrote and Brook Benton made famous; "Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin)" and "Groupy Girl" are prime early swamp rock; "Steamy Windows" came by way of his friend Mark Knopfler, who was producing Tina Turner at the time. Later gems like "Ain't Going Down This Time" and "On The Return To Muscle Shoals" show the voice getting deeper and the grooves getting slower, in the best way.

Elvis Presley, Tom Jones and Joe Bonamassa all took a run at "Polk Salad Annie," and White toured with everyone from Creedence to Eric Clapton. Twenty-odd songs on four sides is a generous helping; pour something cold and let it simmer.

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Tracklist

Side A
1. Rainy Night In Georgia
2. Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin)
3. Polk Salad Annie
4. Groupy Girl
5. Hard To Handle
6. They Caught The Devil And Put Him In Jail In Eudora, Arkansas
7. I Just Walked Away

Side B
1. Even Trolls Love Rock And Roll
2. Backwoods Preacher Man
3. Ol' Mother Earth
4. Soulful Eyes
5. I Get Off On It
6. Steamy Windows

Side C
1. (You're Gonna Look) Good In Blues
2. Ain't Going Down This Time
3. On The Return To Muscle Shoals
4. I Want My Fleetwood Back
5. Ice Cream Man

Side D
1. Can't Go Back Home
2. Closing In On The Fire
3. Playa Del Carmen Nights
4. Did Somebody Make A Fool Out Of You
5. Louvelda