Tony Joe White "rain crow"

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Tony Joe White "rain crow"

online Spotify listen last night:

ok,
I picked this one because it debuted at #2 on the UK
country charts this last week and looking at the cover picture
Tony looks has a resemblance to Neil Young IMO....
I also picked country because I have covered metal, pop,
jazz, alt rock, prog, rap etc this week with new album listens and thought
it needed balancing up with some country....!
so, never heard of him, knew nothing about him at all,
so I Wiki'd him....
Christ, the guy is 71, been making records since the late 1960s...
damn it!, he wrote "polk salad annie", "rainy night in Georgia",
"for ol' times sake", "ive got a thing 'bout you baby" etc etc...
man this guy has history and wrote several songs that Presley recorded
in the 1970s (three of those are mentioned above)...
he also wrote for Dusty Springfield and we all know how particular
she was with selecting songs to record!...
anyway,
on to the album...
they call it country, and I guess he was at some point,
tracks on here have a similar crossover sound like "polk salad annie"
and "ive got a thing 'bout you baby"...both of which I love!
its rootsy, its bluesy, its almost raunchy (if that's the right word
to describe it???!!!!)...
theres bits of CCR's "swamp rock"/"southern rock" sound tinged with
country throughout this one...
love the guy's big booming deep vocals also...
I like this one and am seriously in need of checking out his
obviously fast back catalogue...
im sure Music Head has heard o this guy and I wouldn't be surprised
if he has at least one studio album from back in the day on vinyl...
I guess we'll find out when he returns after his current bout of pneumonia!)

from the album, the title track:

[video=youtube;c5epBL_L8-Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5epBL_L8-Y[/video]

[SteveO]

Polk Salad Annie is a decent song!

[bob_32_116]

I don't own any of Tony Joe's stuff, but I always enjoyed his songs when they came on the radio.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

ive ordered a compilation from my mate Adrian, hoping to get it at the end of this week.

I cannot recall ever hearing anything by him so it will be a real treat to play it when I get it!