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Tony Joe White
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Member Since5/16/2006
Band Websitewww.tonyjoewhite.com
Band MembersTony Joe White - vocals, guitar, harmonica

Jeff Hale - drums

Tyson Rogers - keys
InfluencesLightnin' Hopkins
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Record LabelSWAMP RECORDS
Type of LabelIndie


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   About Tony Joe White

DEEP CUTS


Revered as one of the originators of swamp rock, Tony Joe White has recast a number of his classic songs on Deep Cuts, proving that time has no jurisdiction over funky. His signature groove, starting from his 1969 hit “Polk Salad Annie,” is what he uses to paint a vivid picture of the world he experienced growing up, where poverty provided unity between otherwise divided races and bad-news women were sometimes too good to pass up.

Tony Joe cut the tracks with his son Jody providing a rich palette of beats and loops, utilizing both digital and live drums, strings, organs, and the unmistakable timbre of his guitar. White’s time-worn baritone is positively haunting, like a restless spirit conjured by the funk that was always the core of his music.

As a collective work, Deep Cuts portrays the complications of living on the cusp of impending danger — be it an encounter with a brutal country sheriff or a poisonous snake — through the eyes of a master songwriter who has seen and lived all of it. Deep Cuts not only updates a cache of classic songs for a contemporary audience, it reframes them, revisiting his timeless imagery in a new, modern context. With Deep Cuts, Tony Joe reveals that there is still plenty to be gleaned from his irresistible, timeless groove.

DEEP CUTS hit the stores June 10, 2008, with the following track listing:

1. Set The Hook
2. As The Crow Flies
3. Willie And Laura Mae Jones
4. Soul Francisco
5. Run With The Bulls
6. High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish
7. Aspen, Colorado
8. Homemade Ice Cream
9. Swamp Water
10. Roosevelt and Ira Lee


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The CBS hit television series CSI featured Tony Joe White songs from Deep Cuts on back-to-back episodes, as "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" appeared on April 23, while "Set the Hook" was featured on April 30.





Tony Joe White's "Way Down South" is featured on Alif Tree's new release Clockwork. For more on the album, head over to Alif Tree's MySpace page, or download the track from iTunes.





Number 7 album of 2008

Tony Joe White's newest album Deep Cuts was chosen as the 7 album of 2008 by American Songwriter's senior editor Paul Zollo. To check out the rest of American Songwriter's picks for the year, click here.





4 out of 5 stars!
by ANDY GILL

Swamp-rock auteur Tony Joe White is best known for "Polk Salad Annie", so it's surprising it's not on this set of revisitations.

But the rest of his Louisiana characters reappear, from the vengeful "High Sheriff (of Calhoun Parish)" to hapless "Roosevelt & Ira Lee" and downhome chums "Willie and Laura Mae Jones", in new arrangements framing White's baritone and distorted fuzz-wah guitar lines in beats and loops furnished by his son Jody.

The result is a series of evocative grooves, like the dark "As the Crow Flies" and the strangely sinister instrumental "Homemade Ice Cream". "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" becomes a sort of trip-hop swamp-funk, while his ambivalent celebration of hippie culture, "Soul Francisco", is a haunted miasma of organ, strings and fuzz guitar.

Pick of the album:'Soul Francisco', 'Willie and Laura Mae Jones', 'Swamp Water'





by JONNY WHITESIDE

The venerable swamp-rock auteur Tony Joe White — whose songs have been covered by Elvis Presley, Tom Jones, Dusty Springfield, Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jr. — roars back into town not only with an impeccable four-decade musical pedigree but also a positively brain-pulping new album. A master of dirty-toned electric-guitar eloquence and off-kilter, ultra-maxi groove mongering, White has consistently explored forbidding musical territory, areas fraught with menace and passion, and he has an abiding insight when it comes to matters of human folly. On the just-released Deep Cuts, the singer-guitarist’s perspective is as resolutely insightful and deeply funk-informed as ever; produced with tastefully apocalyptic doses of severe techno-distortion by his son Jody, it’s a kaleidoscopic mixture of instrumental thrillers and some startling remakes (“Soul Francisco” becomes an ominous, symphonic fuzz and wah-wah workout thrilling in its audacity and execution), all perfectly framing White’s richly muddy, near-subsonic vocals and lowdown, incendiary guitar style. White remains a fabulously individualistic artist, and one who rocks with a vengeful intensity that’s nothing short of wondrous.




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Rita





Jul 2 2009 3:34 PM

As the Crow Flies is almost as good as Steamy Windows. Love your music.
DownTown Mystic





Jul 1 2009 7:13 PM

Hi Tony Joe...it's gr8 2 have U as 1 of R Guitar Heroes 2day...cheers!
MEME





Jun 30 2009 5:50 PM

THANKS FOR THE ADD!
Fordie Hays





Jun 30 2009 5:50 PM

thanks for the add
Very Independent Pluggers





Jun 30 2009 5:50 PM

Thank you!
Dominic Francis





Jun 29 2009 5:57 PM

thanks for having me Tony

hope you like my tunes too

Dominic Francis
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Jun 29 2009 5:56 PM

have a rocking weekend Pictures, Images and Photos
Kebo Cyrus fan site
Cathy
Rita





Jun 26 2009 4:09 PM

Had to get my "fix" of some more Tony Joe White.
The Robin Hoare Band





Jun 25 2009 4:54 PM

Hi Tony!
I hope all's well with you. Thanks for all those great songs.
Best wishes,
Robin :)
mary





Jun 25 2009 4:54 PM

Hey Tony Joe hi from the great state of maine. thanks for the add
Taquinho Noronha





Jun 25 2009 4:54 PM

Tony Joe White dear:
Your rock music is great so keep on rocking this guitar of yours, singing and pepping up the lovers of
rock everywhere. Accept an embrace from your Brazilian fan,

Taquinho Noronha
ritchy





Jun 25 2009 4:54 PM

love that swamp music.
BELVA J





Jun 23 2009 4:21 PM

Love ya cuz,
Chris & Belva
Colossus





Jun 23 2009 4:21 PM

Hey Tony Joe,
thanks for the add!!!

COLOSSUS (Scotland)
Jeffrey Whitman





Jun 23 2009 4:21 PM

Hey Tony Joe !

Greetings from Tampa Bay !
Thank You Sir !
Great to meet You !

I don't get to say this very often.
" It's an Honor to be here !"
Jeffrey Whitman
Rita





Jun 22 2009 6:02 PM

Yikes, some powerful stuff here. Just can't seem to get enough of the good "swamp" music of Tony Joe White this evening. Thanks
IN STORES NOW!





Jun 22 2009 6:01 PM

Thanks for joining us...good to see you again.
THE most blocked artist ON myspace





Jun 19 2009 10:07 PM


thanks for adding me, you think it's End Times?
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Jun 18 2009 9:15 PM

Hello Tony, Thanks for the friendship. Have a Good One my Friend!
LONGHUNTER
Black Cat Bone





Jun 18 2009 9:14 PM

Hi Tony,
Thanks so much for the add. You sound great!
Greetings from Germany & all the best,
Uli / BCB




Nancy





Jun 18 2009 9:14 PM

Just had to stop by and get a little TJW.
COLD SNAP





Jun 18 2009 9:14 PM

We are huge TJW fans! Hope you dig our House Rockin' Chicago Blues too. We do a mean live version of Polk Salad Annie at our shows...Our own little tribute to TJW :)
Arpege





Jun 18 2009 9:14 PM

Hi Tony,

I'm glad to have a friendship with a so great musician with a so particular voice.

All the best

L'Abripom

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will nolan





Jun 18 2009 9:13 PM

hello there
thanks for accepting my request
cheers from ireland
,,will,,
AXTEC GUITAR WORKS





Jun 17 2009 9:30 PM

so glad your still putting it out there.havent heard the troll loves r&r sence hamburg live dont stop the gift you give is real the world needs it
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