The Best of Tony Joe White Tony Joe White

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  • Release Date: 09/14/1993
  • Sales Rank: 9,506
  • Label: WARNER BROS / WEA
  • UPC: 093624530527

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The Best of Tony Joe White

1LISTENPolk Salad Annie 3:42
2LISTENSoul Francisco 1:57
3LISTENWillie and Laura Mae Jones 4:57
4LISTENRainy Night in Georgia 3:41
5LISTENRoosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Mossacin) 3:04
6LISTENStockholm Blues 3:25
7LISTENHigh Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish 3:50
8LISTENOld Man Willis 3:11
9LISTENThe Train I'm On 3:09
10LISTENIf I Ever Saw a Good Thing 3:21
11LISTENAs the Crow Flies 3:50
12LISTENEven Trolls Love Rock and Roll 4:50
13LISTENBackwoods Preacher Man 2:46
14LISTENTakin' the Midnight Train 4:05
15LISTENDid Somebody Make a Fool out of You 4:17
16LISTENThey Caught the Devil and Put Him in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas 3:49
17LISTENSaturday Night in Oak Grove, Louisiana 2:13
18LISTENI've Got a Thing About You Baby 2:42
19LISTENFor Ol' Times Sake 3:48
20LISTENOl' Mother Earth 3:06

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Twenty tracks from 1969-1973, the period of Tony Joe 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 down-home 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. Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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