MINT 1968 Orig TONY JOE WHITE BLACK & WHITE GRITTY SWAMP BLUES Funk Psych

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            1969  GRITTY  SWAMP  BLUES  GROOVER!!!

                                      TOP COPY!

      STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER!

                    TONY JOE WHITE

           BLACK AND WHITE                 

                     USA - MONUMENT RECORDS - SLP 18114 

     MINTY CLEAN VINYL with HARD TO FIND CLEAN COVER!

    STILL IN ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER

HIGHLY RATED   Original 1969 first pressing :::

It's 1969, and Tony Joe White has just unleashed his first Lp ...This swamp gator has a fire burnin' in his belly -- a grooved-out gritty moanin' blues cooker with infectious style and turned-on sound ...so good in fact, it delivers delightfully to the point where the listener is prone to flip it right back on ...

When "Polk Salad Annie" blared from transistor radio speakers in the summer of 1969, the first thought was of Creedence Clearwater Revival, for Tony Joe White's swamp rock bore more than a passing resemblance to the sound John Fogerty whipped up on Bayou Country and Green River. But White was the real thing -- he really was from the bayou country of Louisiana, while Fogerty's bayou country was conjured up in Berkeley, CA. Plus, White had a mellow baritone voice that sounded like it had been dredged up from the bottom of the Delta. Besides "Annie," side one of this album includes several other White originals. The best of these are "Willie and Laura Mae Jones," a song about race relations with an arrangement similar to "Ballad of Billie Joe," and "Soul Francisco," a groovin' tune of funked-out grit, wah wah guitar flashing all over (a big hit in Europe in 1968). 'Willie & Laura Mae Jones' hits a home run with awesome, swirling 'Ode to Billy Joe' arrangement, flute flourishes, clattering drum fills, and an utterly deranged fuzz guitar coda. 'Don't Steal My Love' is a wild, all-chugging, all-frugging wah-wah wig out monster, pure menacing drone, definitive swamp rock, with added tambourine. There's a stack of those kinds of tunes here ....Black And White is the album that followed his own 1969 US top ten hit Polk Salad Annie, the song and this album introduced swamp rock to the nation: funky rhythms, southern fried wah-wah guitar, alligator soul boogie and a voice as deep as his sideburns. Get on it....

Willie and Laura Mae Jones

Soul Francisco

Aspen Colorado

Whompt Out On You

Don't Steal My Love

 Polk Salad Annie

Who's Making Love?

 Scratch My Back

 Little Green Apples

 Wichita Lineman

 Look of Love

CONDITION: The cover: Solid all over, the black front cover is really hard to find without shelf wear being 43 years old...this copy is MINT ...still in original factory shrink wrapper ALL CLEAN ==> very collection worthy copy as it has not ANY of the usual shelf wear you find on this dark cover ... no delete marks, no seam splits, no bends, no writing

The vinyl: glowing M- clean ...plays fantastic, just had it on and was really enjoyable... 

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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