Tony Joe White - Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings (4 CD BoxSet) (2006) FLAC

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1). Digitally remastered four CD set containing all three of White's Monument Records albums in their entirety plus a slew of unreleased tracks, including ten 1969 Paris sessions and seven live performances from the Isle Of Wight. Recorded with such Muscle Shoals musicians as David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan, White's first album, 1969's Black And White, featured such originals as "Willie And Laura Mae Jones" and "Polk Salad Annie," along with such covers as Jimmy Webb's "Wichita Lineman." Released later that year, White's second album, ...Continued, featured the same Muscle Shoals players, along with Mike Utley, Tommy McClure, and Sammy Creason. Tony Joe came out in 1970, revealing an absence of the horns that had been so dominant on the previous records, and anchored by White's acoustic guitar. Following an electrifying performance at the legendary Isle Of Wight festival, White moved to Warner Bros. Records, ending this first chapter. Rhino. 2006.
2). Tony Joe White was raised on a cotton farm in Goodwill, Louisiana. Swamp country. His parents played country and gospel at church, but the blues were Tony Joe's calling. Years later, White's "Rainy Night In Georgia" would be immortalized as a hit by Brook Benton. But let's not forget the magical material he recorded under his own name...
"One day my brother brought home an album by Lightnin' Hopkins, and that was it for me," says White in the liner notes to this release. "That's when I started grabbing dad's guitar and shutting myself in the bathroom or bedroom, just playing for hours on end until it started to sound like something

Tony Joe White Swamp Music The Complete Monument Recordings 4 CD BoxSet 2006 FLAC

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