Tony Joe White (born July 23, 1943, Oak Grove, Louisiana, United States) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie"; "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970; he also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent For The Blues" both big hits for Tina Turner in 1989, those two songs came from Tina’s producer at the time, Mark Knopfler who is a friend of Tony. "Polk Salad Annie" was also recorded by Elvis Presley and Tom Jones.
Hoodoo, which may be Tony Joe White’s best album, is a record full of laidback, shuffling blues and murmured intimacies, with the enigmatic “Holed Up” hitting a JJ Cale-like hypnotic groove. Elsewhere are reminiscences of his childhood as a poor cotton-farmer’s kid (“9 Foot Sack”), two perilous extreme-weather songs, “The Flood” and “Storm Comin’”, and a warning never to linger in “Alligator, Mississippi”.
White’s trademark swamp-rock style is best represented by “The Gift”, in which ghosts of bluesmen past appear to him in a graveyard vision, perhaps drawn by the sinister scrawl of fuzz-guitar and the miasmic electric piano. A true original, at his very best.
Tracklist:
1. The Gift
2. Holed Up
3. Who You Gonna Hoodoo Now?
4. 9 Foot Sack
5. Alligator, Mississippi
6. The Flood
7. Storm Comin'
8. Gypsy Epilogue
9. Sweet Tooth
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