Tony Joe White
Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings


Tracks:

CD 1 (Black and White / 1969)

1.1 Willie and Laura Mae Jones
1.2 Soul Francisco
1.3 Aspen Colorado
1.4 Whompt Out on You
1.5 Don't Steal My Love
1.6 Polk Salad Annie
1.7 Who's Making Love
1.8 Scratch My Back
1.9 Little Green Apples
1.10 Wichita Lineman
1.11 Look of Love
1.12 Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Alternate Version) [bonus track]
1.13 I Protest [bonus track]
1.14 A Man Can Only Stand Just So Much Pain [bonus track]
1.15 Toil & Trouble (Early Version) [bonus track]
1.16 Georgia Pines [bonus track]
1.17 It's Not What You Got [bonus track]
1.18 Prison Song [bonus track]
1.19 Hung Up on You [bonus track]
1.20 Ten More Miles to Louisiana [bonus track]
1.21 Let the Party Roll On [bonus track]
1.22 Watching the Trains Go by (Alternate Version) [bonus track]
1.23 Georgia Pines (Alternate Version) [bonus track]
1.24 Baby Please Don't Go [bonus track]

CD 2 (...Continued / 1969)

2.1 Elements and Things
2.2 Roosevelt and Ira Lee
2.3 Woodpecker
2.4 Rainy Night in Georgia
2.5 For Lee Ann
2.6 Old Man Willis
2.7 Woman With Soul
2.8 I Want You
2.9 I Thought I Knew You Well
2.10 The Migrant
2.11 Watching the Trains Go by (Single Version) [bonus track]
2.12 Old Man Willis (Single Version) [bonus track]
2.13 Funky Fingers [bonus track]
2.14 Soul Britches [bonus track]
2.15 Dusty Marshmallow [bonus track]
2.16 Toil & Trouble [bonus track]
2.17 What Does It Take [bonus track]
2.18 This Guy's in Love With You [bonus track]
2.19 Woodpecker (Alternate Version) [bonus track]
2.20 Laying Out All Night [bonus track]
2.21 I Want Your Sweet Love [bonus track]
2.22 Keep a Movin' Train [bonus track]

CD 3 (Tony Joe / 1970)

3.1 Stud-Spider
3.2 High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish
3.3 Widow Wimberly
3.4 Conjure Woman
3.5 Save Your Suger for Me
3.6 Hard to Handle
3.7 What Does It Take [To Win Your Love]
3.8 My Friend
3.9 Stockholm Blues
3.10 Boom Boom
3.11 Groupy Girl
3.12 Prisoner [bonus track]
3.13 Do You Want My Love [bonus track]
3.14 Gospel Singer [bonus track]
3.15 I Hate to See You Cry [bonus track]
3.16 Dusty Marshmallow [bonus track]
3.17 I Can't Stand It [bonus track]
3.18 Mississippi River [bonus track]

CD 4 (Previously Unissued)

* Barclay Studio, Paris - March 1969

4.1 Mississippi Delta
4.2 Chain of Fools
4.3 Woodpecker
4.4 The Ballad of Hollis Brown
4.5 Blue Monday
4.6 Tobacco Road / Dead End Street
4.7 Caress Me Babe
? 4.8 Dusty Marshmallow
4.9 Just Look at You
4.10 Skinny Legs & All

* Recorded Live on the Isle of Wight - August 28, 1970

4.11 Boom Boom
4.12 Roosevelt and Ira Lee
4.13 I Want You
4.14 Groupy Girl
4.15 Stud Spider
4.16 Polk Salad Annie
4.17 Save Your Sugar for Me

Line up:

Tony Joe White – Guitar, Vocals
Cozy Powell – Drums (CD 4 track 11-17)

Record Label / Year of Release:

Rhino 2006

Notes:

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 was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who was a friend of White. "Polk Salad Annie" was also recorded by Joe Dassin, Elvis Presley, and Tom Jones.

In his club days, Tony Joe played as a two-piece, just him and a drummer. The last half of the final disc captures him in front of 600,000 people at the Isle of Wight fest in that setup. As he was about to go on alone, Jeff Beck's drummer Cozy Powell offered to join him onstage. The seven songs they played together were at times ragged, but always spirited and fiery. White's electric guitar style is rhythmic and full, making the absence of a bass player a moot point, and Powell's rock-solid percussive backing frees him to wail and moan like an electric guitar god. You don't even miss the horns on "Polk Salad Annie" as the duo smokes like a power trio stoked on greens from down on the bayou.