TONY JOE WHITE Black & White VINYL Lp Swamp Blues Funk Psych Groover ORIG UK '69
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Description
TONY JOE WHITE
BLACK AND WHITE
SIDE ONE
Willie and Laura Mae Jones
Soul Francisco
Aspen Colorado
Whompt Out On You
Don't Steal My Love
Polk Salad Annie
SIDE TWO
Who's Making Love?
Scratch My Back
Little Green Apples
Wichita Lineman
Look of Love
RECORD DETAILS
VERY RARE ORIGINAL UK STEREO PRESS VINYL LP RELEASED ON THE 'MONUMENT' RECORD LABEL IN 1969.
THE VINYL LOOKS TO BE IN EXCELLENT+ CONDITION WITH A NICE SHINE TO IT.
THE SLEEVE IS IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION WITH SOME LIGHT MARKS ON THE BACK COVER.
IT HAS NICE CLEAN MONUMENT LABELS.
IT HAS A POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE.
SUMMARY
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....
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