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(Easy Eye Sound, 1/2) Polk Salad Annie by Elvis, Rainy Night in Georgia by Brook Benton, Steamy Windows by Tina Turner â Tony Joe White is probably best-known through others versions of his songs. But the Louisiana-born Swamp Fox, who died at 75 in 2018, was a mesmerizing performer in his own right. Smoke From the Chimney contains nine White guitar-and-voice demos fleshed out by producer Dan Auerbach with his usual stable of Nashville studio aces. The Black Keys frontman does a terrific job of capturing the deep-voiced singer s brooding swamp-rock essence, giving this American original a worthy send-off. Of course, it helps that White is in top form as a writer. The title song is a poetic evocation of grappling with old age and mortality, Listen to Your Song imparts a hard-earned lesson, and Scary Stories conjures a goosebump-inducing sense of menace. ....
Billy If you ve ever lost someone close to you, had the experience of going through their things and uncovering parts of their life you didn t know about or discovered unfinished projects they were working on, you might find an inkling of your experience in Jody White s. His father singer-songwriter Tony Joe White passed away in 2018. After, he found a bunch of Tony Joe s unreleased, unfinished songs. We talked to the younger White and his collaborator Dan Auerbach on how they brought new life to the songs that compose Tony Joe White s post-humous album, Smoke From The Chimney. ....
7 May 2021 Tony Joe White has always sung in a low growl that made him sound like an older man. Even as a 20-something-year old back in the 1960s when he crooned classic self-penned tunes like “Polk Salad Annie” (with the immortal line, “Gator’s got your granny, chomp chomp”) and “Rainy Night in Georgia”, White sounded like a grizzled musical veteran. His voice never changed much. It got a bit deeper, darker, and murkier as he aged, but his distinctive style remained easily recognizable. White died of a heart attack at the age of 75 back in October 2018. He left nine unfinished vocal and guitar demos that had never seen the light of day. The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach has produced and arranged these songs for a posthumous release called, ....
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. ....