10668 - TONY JOE WHITE - SWAMP MUSIC: THE COMPLETE MONUMENT RECORDINGS, DISC FOUR (2006)
TONY JOE WHITE
''SWAMP MUSIC: THE COMPLETE MONUMENT RECORDINGS, DISC FOUR''
SEPTEMBER 2006
290:28
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DISC ONE (75:06)
1 Willie And Laura Mae Jones (Remastered Version) 04:56
2 Soul Francisco (Remastered Version) 01:56
3 Aspen Colorado (Remastered Version) 02:48
4 Whompt Out On You (Remastered Version) 02:22
5 Don't Steal My Love (Remastered Version) 03:50
6 Polk Salad Annie (Remastered Version) 03:44
7 Who's Making Love (Remastered Version) 03:12 (Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Donald Davis)
8 Scratch My Back (Remastered Version) 03:03 (James Moore)
9 Little Green Apples (Remastered Version) 03:59 (Bobby Russell)
10 Wichita Lineman 02:51 (Jimmy Webb)
11 The Look Of Love (Remastered Version) 03:18 (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
12 Willie And Laura Mae Jones (Alternate Version) 03:51
13 I Protest (Remastered Version) 03:07 (Wayne Carson)
14 A Man Can Only Stand Just So Much Pain 02:31 (Mike Newbury)
15 Toil & Trouble (Early Version) 03:47
16 Georgia Pines (Remastered Version) 02:54
17 It's Not What You Got 03:09
18 Prison Song 02:18
19 Hung Up On You 02:20
20 Ten More Miles To Louisiana (Remastered Version) 02:24
21 Let The Party Roll On 02:29 (Joe South)
22 Watching The Trains Go By (Alternate Version) 02:46 (Dewey Oldham)
23 Georgia Pines (Alternate Version) 02:56 (John Rainey Adkins, Buddy Buie)
24 Baby Please Don't Go 04:25 (Big Joe Williams)
*****
DISC TWO (78:12)
1 Elements And Things (Remastered Version) 05:12
2 Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin Remastered Version) 03:05
3 Woodpecker (Remastered Version) 02:42
4 Rainy Night In Georgia (Remastered Version) 03:38
5 For Le Ann (Remastered Version) 03:21
6 Old Man Willis (Remastered Version) 03:10
7 Woman With Soul (Remastered Version) 03:16
8 I Want You (Remastered Version) 05:19
9 I Thought I Knew You Well (Remastered Version) 04:15
10 The Migrant (Remastered Version) 03:28
11 Watching The Trains Go By (Remastered Single Version) 03:05 (Dewey Oldham)
12 Old Man Willis (Remastered Single Version) 03:09
13 Funky Fingers 04:12
14 Soul Britches 05:00
15 Dusty Marshmellow 03:08
16 Toil & Trouble 05:52
17 What Does It Take To Win Your Love 03:40 (Vernon Bullock, Harvey Fuqua)
18 This Guy's In Love With You 02:53 (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
19 Woodpecker (Alternate Version) 02:41
20 Laying Out All Night 01:59
21 I Want Your Sweet Love 02:20
22 Keep A Movin' Train 02:36
*****
DISC THREE (72:48)
1 Stud Spider (Remastered Version) 05:37
2 High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parrish (Remastered Version) 03:50
3 Widow Wimberly (Remastered Version) 03:39
4 Conjure Woman (Remastered Version) 03:56
5 Save Your Sugar For Me (Remastered Version) 02:20
6 Hard To Handle (Remastered Version) 02:51 (Alvertis Isbell, Otis Redding)
7 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) 03:38 (Johnny Bristol, Vernon Bullock, Harvey Fuqua)
8 My Friend (Remastered Version) 03:07 (Donnie Fritts, Dewey Oldham)
9 Stockholm Blues (Remastered Version) 03:24
10 Boom Boom (Remastered Version) 07:50 (John Lee Hooker)
11 Groupy Girl (Remastered Version) 03:02
12 Prisoner 02:58
13 Do You Want My Love 05:01
14 Gospel Singer 03:18
15 I Hate To See You Cry 03:05
16 Dusty Marshmellow 03:38
17 I Can't Stand It 06:12
18 Mississippi River 05:13
*****
DISC FOUR (64:22)
1 Mississippi Delta 03:05 (Bobby Gentry)
2 Chain Of Fools 03:29 (Don Covay)
3 Woodpecker 02:29
4 The Ballad Of Hollis Brown 03:27 (Bob Dylan)
5 Blue Monday 03:53
6 Tobacco Road; Dead End Street 05:29 (John D. Loudermilk, Ben Raleigh, Lou Rawls)
7 Caress Me Babe! 03:17
8 Dusty Marshmellow 01:39
9 Just Look At You 02:03
10 Skinny Legs & All 03:16 (Joe Tex)
11 Boom Boom (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 03:47 (John Lee Hooker)
12 Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin) (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 05:26
13 I Want You (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 05:21
14 Groupy Girl (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 05:15
15 Stud Spider (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 02:56
16 Polk Salad Annie (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 06:33
17 Save Your Sugar For Me (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 02:48
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REVIEW/AMG
Hal Horowitz
This overstuffed box not only includes all three of Tony Joe White's initial albums for Monument, but adds dozens of extra songs and outtakes, most of which have never been heard before, and includes a fourth disc of previously unreleased live and studio tracks. It's a cornucopia of material, nearly all of it worth hearing, but due to its near obsessive vault clearing, the hefty list price, and its limited-edition status (only 5000 were pressed), it is clearly geared to the obsessive White enthusiast. Even though the singer/songwriter/guitarist was signed to Monument in 1966 (both sides of his rare debut single appear as extras on this set's version of Black and White), his first album was not recorded until 1969. By that time White had pretty much nailed the distinctive and ultimately trademark swamp sound that he mined for the rest of his career. The musky yet melodic songs, evocative lyrics and mid-tempo rhythms married to White's baritone voice reveled in his scrappy Louisiana roots. His first disc kicks off with "Willie and Laura Mae Jones," a steaming slice of the backwoods pop that, like most of his finest work, effortlessly combined blues, country and folk. While others had worked similar territory previously, in particular Bobbie Gentry (her "Ode to Billy Joe" was a major inspiration for White), he infused a rock and R&B sensibility that drove the music with gritty authenticity and his "whomper stomper" wah-wah pedal. Most impressive is the amount of material recorded during the period 1969-1971, the three years covered here. Of these 64 studio tracks and outtakes, all but approximately 20 are originals and most are well worth hearing. Billy Swan remained White's producer throughout these albums, and even though some critics find his strings and horns to be unnecessary embellishments, the sweetening seldom overwhelms the music. White rather reluctantly agrees in his interview available in the informative 36-page book that brings additional value to this compilation. The fourth disc features his entire seven-song performance at 1970s Isle of Wight concert. White is joined by Jeff Beck's drummer Cozy Powell, who he had first met earlier that day, and the duo burn through a sizzling set highlighted by a six-minute version of his biggest hit, "Polk Salad Annie." The compilers also unearth a previously unreleased, solo, ten track studio session recorded in Paris in March of 1969 where White covers Gentry's "Mississippi Delta" along with Bob Dylan, Don Covay and Joe Tex, along with a few originals. Not quite essential, it's still more than worthwhile and fans will enjoy experiencing White in his most stripped down format. It's a fitting coda for a long overdue and neatly packaged appreciation of Tony Joe White's significant influence on American roots music.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
John Bush
Tony Joe White has parlayed his songwriting talent into a modestly successful country and rock career in Europe as well as America. Born July 23, 1943, in Goodwill, Louisiana, White was born into a part-Cherokee family. He began working clubs in Texas during the mid-'60s and moved to Nashville by 1968. White's 1969 debut album for Monument, Black and White, featured his Top Ten pop hit "Polk Salad Annie" and another charting single, "Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Moccasin)." That same year, Dusty Springfield reached the charts with White's "Willie and Laura Mae Jones." Brook Benton recorded a version of White's "Rainy Night in Georgia" that hit number four early in 1970; the song has since become a near-standard with more than 100 credits. White's own "Groupie Girl" began his European success with a short stay on the British charts in 1970.
White moved to Warner Bros. in 1971, but success eluded him on his three albums: Tony Joe White, The Train I'm On, and Homemade Ice Cream. Other stars, however, continued to keep his name on the charts during the '70s: Elvis charted with "For Ol' Times Sake" and "I've Got a Thing About You Baby" (Top Five on the country charts), and Hank Williams, Jr. took "Rainy Night in Georgia" to number 13 on the country charts. White himself recorded Eyes for 20th Century Fox in 1976, but then disappeared for four years. He signed to Casablanca for 1980's The Real Thang but moved to Columbia in 1983 for Dangerous, which included the modest country hits "The Lady in My Life" and "We Belong Together."
White was inactive through much of the '80s, but worked with Tina Turner on her 1989 Foreign Affair album, writing four songs and playing guitar and harmonica. He released Closer to the Truth a year later for his own Swamp label and toured with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker to very receptive French crowds (Closer to the Truth has sold 100,000 copies in that country alone). His 1993 album Path of a Decent Groove was released only in France, though Warner's The Best of Tony Joe White earned an American release the same year. Lake Placid Blues (1995) and One Hot July (1998) were Europe-only efforts until 2000, when Hip-O Records brought out One Hot July in the U.S., giving White his first new major-label domestic release in 17 years. But White was just beginning to roll, or re-roll, as the case may be. The critically acclaimed The Beginning appeared from Swamp Records in 2001, followed by Heroines, featuring several duets with female vocalists, from Sanctuary in 2004, and a live Austin City Limits concert, Live from Austin, TX, from New West Records in 2006. In 2007 White released another live recording, Take Home the Swamp, as well as the compilation Introduction to Tony Joe White. In the summer of 2010 Rhino Handmade released a previously unissued live date from 1971 entitled That On the Road Look; later that fall, White's latest studio offering, The Shine, appeared through his Swamp Records imprint. The Shine gained enough attention that he then made the leap to the high-profile roots rock indie Yep Roc, which released Hoodoo in the fall of 2013.
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''SWAMP MUSIC: THE COMPLETE MONUMENT RECORDINGS, DISC FOUR''
SEPTEMBER 2006
290:28
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DISC ONE (75:06)
1 Willie And Laura Mae Jones (Remastered Version) 04:56
2 Soul Francisco (Remastered Version) 01:56
3 Aspen Colorado (Remastered Version) 02:48
4 Whompt Out On You (Remastered Version) 02:22
5 Don't Steal My Love (Remastered Version) 03:50
6 Polk Salad Annie (Remastered Version) 03:44
7 Who's Making Love (Remastered Version) 03:12 (Homer Banks, Bettye Crutcher, Donald Davis)
8 Scratch My Back (Remastered Version) 03:03 (James Moore)
9 Little Green Apples (Remastered Version) 03:59 (Bobby Russell)
10 Wichita Lineman 02:51 (Jimmy Webb)
11 The Look Of Love (Remastered Version) 03:18 (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
12 Willie And Laura Mae Jones (Alternate Version) 03:51
13 I Protest (Remastered Version) 03:07 (Wayne Carson)
14 A Man Can Only Stand Just So Much Pain 02:31 (Mike Newbury)
15 Toil & Trouble (Early Version) 03:47
16 Georgia Pines (Remastered Version) 02:54
17 It's Not What You Got 03:09
18 Prison Song 02:18
19 Hung Up On You 02:20
20 Ten More Miles To Louisiana (Remastered Version) 02:24
21 Let The Party Roll On 02:29 (Joe South)
22 Watching The Trains Go By (Alternate Version) 02:46 (Dewey Oldham)
23 Georgia Pines (Alternate Version) 02:56 (John Rainey Adkins, Buddy Buie)
24 Baby Please Don't Go 04:25 (Big Joe Williams)
*****
DISC TWO (78:12)
1 Elements And Things (Remastered Version) 05:12
2 Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin Remastered Version) 03:05
3 Woodpecker (Remastered Version) 02:42
4 Rainy Night In Georgia (Remastered Version) 03:38
5 For Le Ann (Remastered Version) 03:21
6 Old Man Willis (Remastered Version) 03:10
7 Woman With Soul (Remastered Version) 03:16
8 I Want You (Remastered Version) 05:19
9 I Thought I Knew You Well (Remastered Version) 04:15
10 The Migrant (Remastered Version) 03:28
11 Watching The Trains Go By (Remastered Single Version) 03:05 (Dewey Oldham)
12 Old Man Willis (Remastered Single Version) 03:09
13 Funky Fingers 04:12
14 Soul Britches 05:00
15 Dusty Marshmellow 03:08
16 Toil & Trouble 05:52
17 What Does It Take To Win Your Love 03:40 (Vernon Bullock, Harvey Fuqua)
18 This Guy's In Love With You 02:53 (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
19 Woodpecker (Alternate Version) 02:41
20 Laying Out All Night 01:59
21 I Want Your Sweet Love 02:20
22 Keep A Movin' Train 02:36
*****
DISC THREE (72:48)
1 Stud Spider (Remastered Version) 05:37
2 High Sheriff Of Calhoun Parrish (Remastered Version) 03:50
3 Widow Wimberly (Remastered Version) 03:39
4 Conjure Woman (Remastered Version) 03:56
5 Save Your Sugar For Me (Remastered Version) 02:20
6 Hard To Handle (Remastered Version) 02:51 (Alvertis Isbell, Otis Redding)
7 What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) 03:38 (Johnny Bristol, Vernon Bullock, Harvey Fuqua)
8 My Friend (Remastered Version) 03:07 (Donnie Fritts, Dewey Oldham)
9 Stockholm Blues (Remastered Version) 03:24
10 Boom Boom (Remastered Version) 07:50 (John Lee Hooker)
11 Groupy Girl (Remastered Version) 03:02
12 Prisoner 02:58
13 Do You Want My Love 05:01
14 Gospel Singer 03:18
15 I Hate To See You Cry 03:05
16 Dusty Marshmellow 03:38
17 I Can't Stand It 06:12
18 Mississippi River 05:13
*****
DISC FOUR (64:22)
1 Mississippi Delta 03:05 (Bobby Gentry)
2 Chain Of Fools 03:29 (Don Covay)
3 Woodpecker 02:29
4 The Ballad Of Hollis Brown 03:27 (Bob Dylan)
5 Blue Monday 03:53
6 Tobacco Road; Dead End Street 05:29 (John D. Loudermilk, Ben Raleigh, Lou Rawls)
7 Caress Me Babe! 03:17
8 Dusty Marshmellow 01:39
9 Just Look At You 02:03
10 Skinny Legs & All 03:16 (Joe Tex)
11 Boom Boom (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 03:47 (John Lee Hooker)
12 Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Mossacin) (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 05:26
13 I Want You (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 05:21
14 Groupy Girl (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 05:15
15 Stud Spider (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 02:56
16 Polk Salad Annie (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 06:33
17 Save Your Sugar For Me (Live Isle Of Wight Remastered) 02:48
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REVIEW/AMG
Hal Horowitz
This overstuffed box not only includes all three of Tony Joe White's initial albums for Monument, but adds dozens of extra songs and outtakes, most of which have never been heard before, and includes a fourth disc of previously unreleased live and studio tracks. It's a cornucopia of material, nearly all of it worth hearing, but due to its near obsessive vault clearing, the hefty list price, and its limited-edition status (only 5000 were pressed), it is clearly geared to the obsessive White enthusiast. Even though the singer/songwriter/guitarist was signed to Monument in 1966 (both sides of his rare debut single appear as extras on this set's version of Black and White), his first album was not recorded until 1969. By that time White had pretty much nailed the distinctive and ultimately trademark swamp sound that he mined for the rest of his career. The musky yet melodic songs, evocative lyrics and mid-tempo rhythms married to White's baritone voice reveled in his scrappy Louisiana roots. His first disc kicks off with "Willie and Laura Mae Jones," a steaming slice of the backwoods pop that, like most of his finest work, effortlessly combined blues, country and folk. While others had worked similar territory previously, in particular Bobbie Gentry (her "Ode to Billy Joe" was a major inspiration for White), he infused a rock and R&B sensibility that drove the music with gritty authenticity and his "whomper stomper" wah-wah pedal. Most impressive is the amount of material recorded during the period 1969-1971, the three years covered here. Of these 64 studio tracks and outtakes, all but approximately 20 are originals and most are well worth hearing. Billy Swan remained White's producer throughout these albums, and even though some critics find his strings and horns to be unnecessary embellishments, the sweetening seldom overwhelms the music. White rather reluctantly agrees in his interview available in the informative 36-page book that brings additional value to this compilation. The fourth disc features his entire seven-song performance at 1970s Isle of Wight concert. White is joined by Jeff Beck's drummer Cozy Powell, who he had first met earlier that day, and the duo burn through a sizzling set highlighted by a six-minute version of his biggest hit, "Polk Salad Annie." The compilers also unearth a previously unreleased, solo, ten track studio session recorded in Paris in March of 1969 where White covers Gentry's "Mississippi Delta" along with Bob Dylan, Don Covay and Joe Tex, along with a few originals. Not quite essential, it's still more than worthwhile and fans will enjoy experiencing White in his most stripped down format. It's a fitting coda for a long overdue and neatly packaged appreciation of Tony Joe White's significant influence on American roots music.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
John Bush
Tony Joe White has parlayed his songwriting talent into a modestly successful country and rock career in Europe as well as America. Born July 23, 1943, in Goodwill, Louisiana, White was born into a part-Cherokee family. He began working clubs in Texas during the mid-'60s and moved to Nashville by 1968. White's 1969 debut album for Monument, Black and White, featured his Top Ten pop hit "Polk Salad Annie" and another charting single, "Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Moccasin)." That same year, Dusty Springfield reached the charts with White's "Willie and Laura Mae Jones." Brook Benton recorded a version of White's "Rainy Night in Georgia" that hit number four early in 1970; the song has since become a near-standard with more than 100 credits. White's own "Groupie Girl" began his European success with a short stay on the British charts in 1970.
White moved to Warner Bros. in 1971, but success eluded him on his three albums: Tony Joe White, The Train I'm On, and Homemade Ice Cream. Other stars, however, continued to keep his name on the charts during the '70s: Elvis charted with "For Ol' Times Sake" and "I've Got a Thing About You Baby" (Top Five on the country charts), and Hank Williams, Jr. took "Rainy Night in Georgia" to number 13 on the country charts. White himself recorded Eyes for 20th Century Fox in 1976, but then disappeared for four years. He signed to Casablanca for 1980's The Real Thang but moved to Columbia in 1983 for Dangerous, which included the modest country hits "The Lady in My Life" and "We Belong Together."
White was inactive through much of the '80s, but worked with Tina Turner on her 1989 Foreign Affair album, writing four songs and playing guitar and harmonica. He released Closer to the Truth a year later for his own Swamp label and toured with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker to very receptive French crowds (Closer to the Truth has sold 100,000 copies in that country alone). His 1993 album Path of a Decent Groove was released only in France, though Warner's The Best of Tony Joe White earned an American release the same year. Lake Placid Blues (1995) and One Hot July (1998) were Europe-only efforts until 2000, when Hip-O Records brought out One Hot July in the U.S., giving White his first new major-label domestic release in 17 years. But White was just beginning to roll, or re-roll, as the case may be. The critically acclaimed The Beginning appeared from Swamp Records in 2001, followed by Heroines, featuring several duets with female vocalists, from Sanctuary in 2004, and a live Austin City Limits concert, Live from Austin, TX, from New West Records in 2006. In 2007 White released another live recording, Take Home the Swamp, as well as the compilation Introduction to Tony Joe White. In the summer of 2010 Rhino Handmade released a previously unissued live date from 1971 entitled That On the Road Look; later that fall, White's latest studio offering, The Shine, appeared through his Swamp Records imprint. The Shine gained enough attention that he then made the leap to the high-profile roots rock indie Yep Roc, which released Hoodoo in the fall of 2013.
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