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The Best of Tony Joe White (feat. Polk Salad Annie)

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Download links and information about The Best of Tony Joe White (feat. Polk Salad Annie) by Tony Joe White. This album was released in 1993 and it belongs to Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Rock & Roll, Country, Pop genres. It contains 20 tracks with total duration of 01:09:10 minutes.

Artist: Tony Joe White
Release date: 1993
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Rock, Rock & Roll, Country, Pop
Tracks: 20
Duration: 01:09:10
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Polk Salad Annie 3:41
2. Soul Francisco 1:55
3. Willie and Laura Mae Jones 4:55
4. Rainy Night In Georgia 3:40
5. Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Mossacin) 3:03
6. Stockholm Blues 3:23
7. High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish 3:48
8. Old Man Willis 3:09
9. The Train I'm On 3:07
10. If I Ever Saw a Good Thing 3:19
11. As the Crow Flies 3:48
12. Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll 4:48
13. Backwoods Preacher Man 2:45
14. Takin' the Midnight Train 4:04
15. Did Somebody Make a Fool Out of You 4:15
16. They Caught the Devil and Put Him In Jail In Eudora, Arkansas 3:47
17. Saturday Night In Oak Grove, Louisiana 2:11
18. I've Got a Thing About You Baby 2:40
19. For Ol' Times Sake 3:46
20. Ol' Mother Earth 3:06

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The years 1968 to 1973 were prolific and musically mind-blowing for singer/songwriter Tony Joe White. His music is filled with dirt-poor characters and themes that detail the South. There are alcoholic hillfolk (“Old Man Willis”), detached lawmen (“High Sheriff of Calhoun County”), wild pokeweed and mean alligators (“Polk Salad Annie,” his massive hit), iterant hell drivers (“Backwoods Preacher Man”), futile racism (“Willie and Laura Mae Jones”), and nights spent circling the local Dairy Queen (“Saturday Night in Oak Grove, Louisiana”). Strings, horns, Jew’s harps, guitars, Hammond organs, and lots of acoustic instruments uphold arrangements that shift effortlessly from spare, haunting folk to shuffle-country boogie to charging R&B and rock ’n’ roll (the kind popularized by Creedence Clearwater Revival). White shows how music only hits the soul when it’s rooted in some kind of authenticity. That’s why he’s the master of the swamp song: an ear-bending blend of R&B, gospel, soul and rock ’n’ roll. Noted producers on this set include Tom Dowd, Jerry Wexler, Billy Swan, and Peter Asher.