Tony Joe White

So I thought we would do that today.

So Who Dis is Tony Joe White.

And you probably know Tony Joe White from this song right here.

I have to say, even though I was in radio for a long time.

Actually, did you ever see that movie with Christian Bale and Matt Damon? Ford vs.

Really? Yeah.

I always thought

Tony Joe White was black.

There were all sorts of new sounds on the charts in 1969.

The swamp rock of Creedence Clearwater Revival or Tony Joe White, the psychedelic soul of The Temptations and Sly and the Family Stone, the horn-driven rock of Blood, Sweat and Tears, which a listener might have pointed to and said, that's what music is going to sound like in the 70s.

And to an extent they would have been right.

All of those strands of music were popular and influential throughout the decade, but nobody would have guessed that possibly the most consequential record to be released that year would be a novelty track that seemed for a couple of years as if it would be a one-hit wonder.

I've told the story many times over the years.

Ray Wiley Hubbard is our guest, by the way, of how you helped me get Tony Joe White.

He wouldn't return our calls.

And then he called you and said, who is this guy, Michael Berry? And why does he want me to come play his place? And what is it? And you said, yes, yes, you must play his place.

After listening to Joe Conker's album, Have a Little Faith, I was looking at the writing credits for each song and came across one that jiggled a memory.

The song Let the Healing Begin was written by Tony Joe White.

Oh, I remember Tony Joe White.

So I looked him up in Apple Music, and boy, was I impressed with Tony's career.

So I offer up Tony Joe White for your consideration.

Songs I consider buzzworthy.

Poke Salad Annie.

And would I be going too far when I say that there's sort of a bit of a gospel feel with the backing vocals?

Yeah, it's interesting because Tony Joe White, if you've ever heard his version of it, it's like a very stripped down, acoustic, like very laid back version.

country folk kind of feel.

Yeah.

Naughty lady.

By Tony Joe White.

I already like it.

I already like it.

A slice of the stinky potential southern yacht for your review.

The swamp fox himself, Tony Joe White, went full smooth in 1983 with his yachtiest album, Dangerous.

Naughty Lady has a solid E-piano, sexy sax, and the album cover has him looking divorced as fuck.

Sports coat, jeans, glass of red wine, table for one.

The first one was, I believe, a gentleman named Tab Benoit, who's out of Louisiana.

I wasn't familiar, but I was familiar with the second one, which is from Tony Joe White.

If you think of Pork Salad Annie, that song back in the day, Elvis loved it, etc.

Had a pretty good career.

And this is one of Chad's favorite artists.

So I like Tony Joe White.

I have some Tony Joe White records.

It just turned out that when we were doing one of our various tours of the property, he had a listening group in and he was playing this recording in one of his listening areas and it sounded magnifique.

He released more than 70 albums and was the only musical artist in Portugal's history to have sold over 10 million albums.

Tony Joe White passed away in 2018 at the age of 75 from a heart attack.

He was nicknamed the Swamp Fox.

He was an American singer-songwriter who helped to pioneer the Louisiana swamp rock genre, had hits like Poke Salad Annie and also Rainy Night in Georgia.

Meaning, you know, Chad, there's new projects, there's new releases, there's this new church series that you're doing.

I bought the Tony Joe White, matter of fact.

Sounded great when we went through the pop-up.

We finished the tour and we ended at the pop-up, which I think is probably the move, you know what I mean? Because you have this, we went from the manufacturing to the warehouse to where the shipping is to the pop-up.

I believe that's probably a good thing the lay of the land because then maybe we'll spend some money.

And when we went in, I think Chad had another group in for some listening session that had started previously.

And they were playing this Tony Joe white recording.

He recorded in the blue heaven studios over at the church previously.