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After Tony Joe White died, his son took to the archives.  He dug through a Franklin storage unit, finding boxes of reel-to-reel tapes with hundreds of demos from White's five-decade career as an enigmatic swamp-rock singer-songwriter.  "My dad didn't have a record deal from '78 until the '90s, but he had a home studio — which was a dangerous combination," said son-manager Jody White. "He was always making music and always recording and always putting it to tape."  Jody White fired off one track in an email to Nashville producer-Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who talked for years with...

Nashville Tennessean Yola, a Grammy-nominated artist self-described as the British "queen of country soul," releases her anticipated sophomore album "Stand For Myself" this July.  The record finds Yola returning to producer and Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound in Nashville, the same room where she delivered her 2019 breakthrough debut "Walk Through Fire."  "Stand For Myself" drops July 30 via Auerbach's label Easy Eye Sound.   Yola, born Yolanda Quartey, gave listeners a taste of "Stand For Myself" on Thursday with new new single "Diamond Studded Shoes." The song hears Y...

Dan Auerbach (left) Marcus King at Easy Eye Sound Studio in Nashville in 2019. Growing up in a musical family in Greenville, S.C., Marcus King was “really into counterculture — especially anything guitar-oriented,” recalls the 25-year-old. By high school, he was spending his afternoons studying jazz theory at art school and his evenings at punk shows or DIY house concerts. “All those kids were really into The Black Keys,” says King, noting that the rock duo’s 2011 album, El Camino, had recently come out (and hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200). “I was like, ‘This is mainstream...

  On May 7th, Smoke from the Chimney, a nine-song album of never-before-heard Tony Joe White tunes, will be released on Easy Eye Sound. Produced by Dan Auerbach and rounded out by Nashville’s most seasoned studio musicians, Smoke from the Chimney started out as a number of unadorned voice and guitar demos from White’s home studio before being transformed into full band arrangements harkening back to the albums he recorded in the late 60s and early 70s in Nashville and Muscle Shoals—just as he was emerging as an internationally recognized songwriter and recording artist. It takes a k...

Tony Joe White's 'Smoke from the Chimney,' with nine never-before-heard songs, will be released by Easy Eye Sound on May 7.