''Tony Joe'' /ref> was the third studio album released by
Tony Joe White
Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit " Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first ...
. It was released on
Monument Records
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and contained the singles "High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish" and "Save Your Sugar For Me". It was recorded at RCA Victor Studios,
Nashville
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and Lyn-Lou Studios,
Memphis
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in 1970. It was produced by
Billy Swan
William Lance Swan (born May 12, 1942) is an American country singer-songwriter, best known for his 1974 single " I Can Help".
Background
Swan was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri southeast of St. Louis on the Mississippi River. As a child, ...
. A mixture of original recordings and covers, it featured White's versions of "Hard To Handle" made popular by
Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. ...
and "Boom Boom" by
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he develo ...
.
The album was re-released on by Movieplay/Intermusic from Portugal in 1993 with a different cover and another title (''Groupy Girl''). In 1997 it was rereleased by
Warner Brothers
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containing two additional songs - "I Protest" (by
Wayne Carson
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) and "A Man Can Only Stand So Much Pain" (
Mickey Newbury
Milton Sims "Mickey" Newbury Jr. (May 19, 1940 – September 29, 2002) was an American singer-songwriter and a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Early life and career
Newbury was born in Houston, Texas, on May 19, 1940, to Mam ...
Robert Christgau
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wrote: "Because he sticks to his roots, White has those who don't trust rock-as-art all hot and bothered. Well, I don't trust rock-as-art myself, but I don't trust these
bayou
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set pieces either. White's tales of spiders, widders, conjure wimmin, and wayward rich girls all sound like I've seen them on television, only there they had endings. Nor do the
Otis Redding
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and
Junior Walker
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covers teach me anything new. The
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he develo ...
is better. As are 'Save Your Sugar for Me,' about teenage sex, and 'Stockholm Blues,' about a songwriter from the bayous who goes somewhere in an airplane."
Track listing
All tracks composed by Tony Joe White, except where indicated
;Side one
# "Stud-Spider"
# "High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish"
# "Widow Wimberly"
# "Conjure Woman"
# "Save Your Sugar For Me"
;Side two
# "Groupie Girl"
# " Hard to Handle" (
Otis Redding
Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues. ...
,
Alvertis Isbell
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, Allen Jones)
# "What Does It Take" (Vernon Bullock,
Johnny Bristol
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,
Harvey Fuqua
Harvey Fuqua ( ; July 27, 1929 – July 6, 2010) was an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive.
Fuqua founded the seminal R&B/doo-wop group the Moonglows in the 1950s. He is notable as one of the k ...
)
# "My Friend" (
Donnie Fritts
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,
Spooner Oldham
Dewey "Spooner" Lindon Oldham Jr. (born June 14, 1943) is an American songwriter and session musician. An organist, he recorded in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, at FAME Studios as part of the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on such hit R&B songs as Percy ...
)
# "Stockholm Blues"
# "
Boom Boom
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" (
John Lee Hooker
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)
Personnel
*Tony Joe White – guitar, harmonica
*
Norbert Putnam
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– bass
*
Mike Utley
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– organ
*
Jerry Carrigan
Jerry Kirby Carrigan (September 13, 1943 – June 22, 2019) was an American drummer and record producer. Early in his career he was a member of the original Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and later worked as a session musician in Nashville for over ...
– drums
*Tommy McClure – bass
* David Briggs – organ
*
Sammy Creason
Sammy Lee Creason (27 November 1944 – 21 December 1995) was an American session drummer who played with Tony Joe White, Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan amongst others.
Life and career
Growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States, he l ...