Tony Joe White

A genuine icon of swamp rock and roll, Tony Joe Light parlayed his songwriting skill and idiosyncratic vocals right into a modestly successful nation and rock and roll career in European countries in addition to America. Blessed July 23, 1943, in Goodwill, Louisiana, Light was born right into a part-Cherokee family members. He began functioning clubs in Tx during the middle-’60s and shifted to Nashville by 1968. White’s 1969 debut recording for Monument, Monochrome, featured his TOP pop strike “Polk Salad Annie” and another charting solitary, “Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Nights the Moccasin).” That same yr, Dusty Springfield reached the graphs with White’s “Willie and Laura Mae Jones.” Brook Benton documented a edition of White’s “Rainy Night time in Georgia” that strike number 4 early in 1970; the music has since turn into a near-standard with an increase of than 100 credits. White’s personal “Groupie Young lady” started his European achievement with a brief stick to the British graphs in 1970. He shifted to Warner Bros. in 1971, but achievement eluded him on his three albums: Tony Joe White colored, The Teach I’m On, and Homemade Snow Cream. Other celebrities, however, continued to maintain his name for the charts through the ’70s: Elvis charted with “For Ol’ Instances Sake” and “I’ve Got something About You Baby” (Best Five on the united states graph), and Hank Williams, Jr. took “Rainy Night time in Georgia” to quantity 13 on the united states chart. White colored also had written music for and made an appearance within the 1974 rock and roll musical film Capture My Soul. White colored himself recorded Eye for 20th Hundred years Fox in 1976, but vanished for four years. He authorized to Casablanca for 1980’s THE TRUE Thang but shifted to Columbia in 1983 for Harmful, including the modest nation hits “THE GIRL in My Existence” and “We Belong Collectively.” White colored was inactive through a lot of the ’80s, but caused Tina Turner on her behalf 1989 Foreign Affair record, writing four tracks and playing electric guitar and harmonica. He released Nearer to the reality a season afterwards for his very own Swamp label and toured with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker to extremely receptive French crowds (Nearer to the Truth provides marketed 100,000 copies for the reason that nation by itself). His 1993 record Path of the Decent Groove premiered just in France, though Warner’s THE VERY BEST of Tony Joe Light gained an American discharge the same season. Lake Placid Blues (1995) and something Popular July (1998) had been Europe-only initiatives until 2000, when Hip-O Information presented One Popular July within the U.S., providing White colored his first fresh major-label domestic launch in 17 years. But White colored was just starting to move, or re-roll, because the case could be. The critically acclaimed THE START made an appearance from Swamp Information in 2001, accompanied by Heroines, offering many duets with feminine vocalists, from Sanctuary in 2004, along with a live Austin Town Restricts concert, Live from Austin, TX, from New Western Records, made an appearance in 2006. In 2007, White colored released another live documenting, COLLECT the Swamp, along with the compilation Intro to Tony Joe White colored. In the summertime of 2010, Rhino Handmade released a previously unissued live day from 1971 entitled That on the highway Look; later on that fall, White’s most recent studio giving, The Shine, made an appearance through his Swamp Information imprint. The Sparkle gained enough interest that then produced the leap towards the high-profile origins rock and roll indie Yep Roc, which released Hoodoo in nov 2013. In 2015, White’s edges for Warner Bros. got a fresh lease on lifestyle with the discharge from the collection THE ENTIRE Warner Bros. Recordings by Genuine Gone Information. White’s second record for Yep Roc, Rainfall Crow, premiered in 2016. Made by Tony Joe’s boy Jody Light, the record included a visitor appearance by musician and professional Billy Bob Thornton.