Though Tony Joe White reached his commercial zenith as a performer with his 1968 debut, Black and White and its single “Polk Salad Annie,” he’s continued makin music ever since. In the nearly fifty years since that debut, he’s released […]
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Has anybody ever gotten more out of less for longer than Tony Joe White. Not “less” in terms of artistry, vision or focus, all of which the Louisiana musical mainstay has in abundance. But less in terms of fewer elements—basic, […]
As an examination of the moment when down-home whites and their equally down-home but somewhat less privileged black neighbors could no longer speak to each other, Tony Joe White’s “Willie And Laura Mae Jones” is as valuable a ’60s document […]
The old swamp dog’s voice has thickened and his range is even more restricted than it used to be, but Tony Joe White’s lyrical vision remains as sharp as a cottonmouth’s fang, and he can still pack more emotional wallop […]
Tony Joe White’s brand of measured, southern country-soul was already something of an anachronism in 1969, when his breakout hit “Polk Salad Annie” splashed some tall-tale hickster funk on the Aquarian Age. The following year, Brook Benton’s deathless (if barely […]
In the late 1960s, Tony Joe White came up to Music City from the Louisiana Delta and, for a brief time, became a star. His swamp-rockin’ “Polk Salad Annie” spent the summer of 1969 in the pop Top 10, his […]
Rising up grumpily from a sticky bed made of a swirling B-3, stinging guitar and insistent, on-the-one tub-thumping, the too-long-AWOL Polk Salad Tony thickly slurs the album’s sultry opening command: “Crack the window, baby, it’s hot in this bedroom/There may […]
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