R.I.P. Tony Joe White

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Hear Tony Joe White’s Epic Bass-Fishing Song ‘Bubba Jones’
Swampy tune appears on the posthumous collection ‘Smoke From the Chimney,’ produced by Dan Auerbach

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/tony-joe-white-new-song-bubba-jones-1143787/?fbclid=IwAR0xC0hjS0x90735_iav50KaKFacxVyLtBFSBUNYL4kkXEIKIHrRAJFnALQ

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The title track is now online as well.


Listen Now: A Lost Song from Tony Joe White

A treasure trove of unreleased works from the late Louisiana songwriter will finally see the light of day on the Dan Auerbach–produced Smoke from the Chimney


https://gardenandgun.com/articles/listen-now-a-lost-song-from-tony-joe-white/?fbclid=IwAR0Uo4oaYmFCBJgBU618wedTI_ELBppn8yN0M2uPkSlY058cLF7pVYvwzpE




Tony Joe White - "Smoke from the Chimney" [Official Video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWHuYvwK6Cw



Some of the sounds remind me of Dennis' "Holy Man". And of course a very Harrison-esque guitar solo.

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More new songs:

Tony Joe White - "Over You" [Official Audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfm5b9nxEDM



Tony Joe White - "Del Rio, You're Making Me Cry" [Official Audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3U_EF1hm_I



Tony Joe White - "Billy" [Official Audio]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0fVh_jJ3ko



On ‘Smoke From the Chimney,’ Tony Joe White’s Storytelling Lives On

https://thebluegrasssituation.com/read/on-smoke-from-the-chimney-tony-joe-whites-storytelling-lives-on/?fbclid=IwAR1QIZleWxLW0w4-MjNhR6NCVpd5DDPYlPrZjDDrIKI_COv0MHE3ihHj_-4

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Unreleased Tony Joe White Songs Are Brought To Live, After His Death

If you've ever lost someone close to you, had the experience of going through their things and uncovering parts of their life you didn't know about or discovered unfinished projects they were working on, you might find an inkling of your experience in Jody White's.His father — singer-songwriter Tony Joe White — passed away in 2018. After, he found a bunch of Tony Joe's unreleased, unfinished songs.We talked to the younger White and his collaborator Dan Auerbach on how they brought new life to the songs that compose Tony Joe White's post-humous album, Smoke From The Chimney.


https://www.npr.org/2021/05/14/996876936/unreleased-tony-joe-white-songs-are-brought-to-live-after-his-death

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Jody White and Dan Auerbach discuss the making of the posthumous Tony Joe White new album
In an exclusive teaser for our cover feature on the late, great TONY JOE WHITE, the Swamp Fox’s son and manager Jody White and producer and Black Keys lynchpin Dan Auerbach talk to MARTIN RUDDOCK about the new album Smoke From The Chimney

https://www.shindig-magazine.com/?p=4782&fbclid=IwAR3osofDhBcWMYYi6QL925uo5KcMsgCnMDd4-6UX12I9I37_XTFAtzFDIDE

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Hear Tony Joe White’s Rare Country-Disco Cut ‘Alone at Last’
Previously unreleased track appears on ‘Country Funk Volume III’ alongside songs by J.J. Cale and Conway Twitty


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/country-funk-tony-joe-white-alone-at-last-1207781/?fbclid=IwAR1vMe5CVJW5FDuDGogqSere6GsUp2Npki40tV1Q8d5UdWGqkcd7iXrmhQ4


The melody sounds very much like the one on his 1980 "Feelin' loose"

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There was a "new" Tony Joe White song released yesterday in celebration of his birthday. Sounds like classic TJW


Panther Ridge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF1b-vmuizI


From the newsletter:


Today would have been Tony Joe's 81st birthday. To commemorate and keep the love for the Swamp Fox going, the previously unheard 'PANTHER RIDGE' has been released across all streaming platforms.

This song was originally recorded in 2000 at TJ's studio in Franklin, TN. It was recently discovered on an old reel to reel transfer and we are excited to share it with you. We hope you enjoy and remember the Swamp Fox on his birthday.

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No other info that I could find about this but a recording of TJW performing Ben E. King's "Stand by me" was released. Quite nice.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acJjJusJkq8

[Rocker]

Here's more information from the TJW team:


Back in 2011, TJW recorded a cover of the classic 'Stand By Me'. The song was supposed to be used in a war-themed movie trailer, which never came to fruition. We recently uncovered the track and decided to release it digitally across all streaming services. Since TJ did not intend for this to be part of an album, we decided to just release the single. We hope you enjoy!

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/4s9AtHAiC3KcXJldBwYFnq?nd=1&dlsi=2fe613c19c3649b5

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Yes, one of my favorite TJW albums!



EXCLUSIVE: An Expanded Version of Tony Joe White's Overlooked Eighties Album The Real Thang announced with 'Cowboy Singer' co-written with Waylon Jennings


In a month when Charley Crockett and Gavin Adcock are squabbling like school boys over what it means to be an authentic cowboy singer and HARDY and ERNEST are rewriting Bro Country as being akin to the original Outlaw Country movement, it feels particularly poetic that two of country music's greatest genuine innovators and renegades should reappear from beyond the grave to knock all their bloody heads together.

"So you wanna be a cowboy singer and pick them 'ol guitars every night," sings Tony Joe White on the newly unearthed 'Cowboy Singer', written with Waylon Jennings in the 1980s. "Well, if you're ever down around Corpus Christi, Texas, be sure and tell 'em all I said hi / Tell 'em me and ol' Waylon said hi."

Spanning five decades from the late 60s up until his death in 2018, the beloved Louisiana singer-songwriter and guitarist Tony Joe White - a.k.a. “The Swamp Fox” - pushed the boundaries of what country music was expected to be. From the swampy country funk of 'Polk Salad Annie' and dreamy '70s folk of songs like 'Homemade Ice Cream' to dark outlaw country ballads like ' High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish,' the straight up countrypolitan of 'Rainy Night in Georgia' and Tina Turner's twangy pop smash 'Steamy Windows,' his songs have been cut by everyone from Ray Charles and Kenny Chesney to Tim McGraw, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley and Dusty Springfield, and in his own studio recordings he never stopped bringing in sounds from the leftfield of country and reimagining country as something entirely unheard of before.

In 2014, when Tony Joe White appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman alongside the Foo Fighters to perform 'Polk Salad Annie,' the TV host famously pointed at White, telling the audience, "Holy cow! ... If I was this guy, you could all kiss my ass. And I mean that."

Originally released back in 1980, at a time when traditional country artists seemed to be struggling to understand where their sound would fit in with the newly polished production of the time, his eight-song collection The Real Thang was only released on vinyl and met with mixed reviews when it came out. Listening to it now, it's odd to think that the album's blend of White's signature swamp rock sound and smooth late 70s disco was so cruelly overlooked, because it feels totally in step with a lot of other things that were happening in country in the early 1980s.

45 years on and it fits perfectly on any playlist of whatever Kenny and Dolly were up to at the time, Glen Campbell's 80s weird country masterpiece Its The World Gone Crazy, Merle Haggard's 'That's the Way Love Goes' or Waylon Jennings' seminal Music Man.

It's Waylon who rides shotgun as The Real Thang is taken once more around the block with White’s estate, helmed by his son, Jody White, announcing a grand unearthing of the album with a deeper dive into what made the era so intriguing, kicking off with the release of the album's first previously unreleased bonus cut, 'Cowboy Singer' co-written with Waylon Jennings.

“The original album included 8 songs from this wildly experimental time in Tony Joe's career,” says Jody. “As I began to explore a re-release of this lost album, I discovered that TJW had written and recorded many more songs during this period of exploration, but most of them had never seen the light of day. They were kept locked away in his large stash of studio reel-to-reels, and nobody was able to listen... until now.”

The new version of The Real Thang is a tale of two albums. The first half is a showcase of White’s singing and songwriting as a country artist and includes several songs he wrote and sang with Waylon Jennings during their time together in the ‘70s. The back half finds White moving into more of the “swamp funk” jam sessions, which became instrumental in his live shows.

“The result,” says Jody, “is eighteen songs that take the listener on a ride from the Texas countryside into the swamps of Louisiana, and a journey through a forgotten time of ‘The Swamp Fox.’”

Waylon Jennings released his own disco country version of the song for his 1983 duets album, Waylon and Company, with Tony Joe White as his duet partner amongst other collabs on the record with Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Jessi Colter, Hank Williams Jr. and Mel Tillis, as 'So You Want to Be a Cowboy,' but the newly unearthed Tony Joe White version is a moodier, softer affair as White refines his home baked recipe of swampy country funk and bluesy guitar licks with a pinch of bouncy '80s disco.

"This track was co-written with Waylon Jennings and depicts the story of being on the road as a country singer in the 1970's," says Jody White recalling the poetry of lyrics like "The lines on my face won't tell you where I'm going, but they sure as hell can tell you where I've been" from it. "The song depicts the life of being on the road as a country music superstar. Traveling the country in private jets, meeting new women and living a country singer's life on the road that "can make you rich... or make you poor."


https://holler.country/news/breaking/exclusive-an-expanded-version-of-tony-joe-whites-overlooked-eighties-album-the-real-thang/





"Cowboy singer": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SojSuICkPYs&t=179s