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From An Archive Of Demo Tapes, A New Album Revives Tony Joe White's Unique Voice wmot.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wmot.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I was blown away, Auerbach told The Tennessean. There s so much variation. It wasn t just one thing. That s obvious because it s Tony Joe. But when you re faced with this whole little bundle of brand new songs and they all fit together like some strange puzzle, even though they re not the same genre, I just love that so much. [It s] stuff that makes you feel good. I connected to that. Tony Joe White recorded the backbone of Smoke From The Chimney roughly three to five years before death, per his son. But the songs time-travel through decades and genres impacted by the singer. ....
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 Jody White about making a record with his dad but never previously connected. ....
Jim Marshall/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Jim Marshall/Courtesy of the artist Singer-songwriter and guitarist Tony Joe White was best known for writing Rainy Night in Georgia, made popular in 1970 by Brook Benton. Jim Marshall/Courtesy of the artist I think it was the first time I heard Brook Benton s Rainy Night In Georgia, Dan Auerbach says during a call from his Nashville studio about discovering Tony Joe White. I d heard the song a bunch already, and I just figured it was a Ray Charles song or something. But then I heard Tony Joe s version and everything about it just blew my mind. ....
How Dan Auerbach Made An Album With Tony Joe White's Previously Unreleased Demos bpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.