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The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings

The late, great, Louisiana-born Tony Joe White first gained fame mainly

through his songwriting; 1969's "Polk Salad Annie" was his only Top

Ten hit, but artists such as Dusty Springfield ("Willie and Laura Mae

Jones"), Brook Benton ("Rainy Night in Georgia") and Elvis Presley

("For Ol' Times Sake"; "I've Got a Thing About You Baby") took his

songs to the charts. But White was always been a singular performer

in his own right; the honeyed burr of his baritone, his alternately tough

and tender vocal delivery and liberal use of his "whomper stomper"

wah-wah pedal lend him a completely distinctive sound. Simply

put, nobody, but nobody, sounds like Tony Joe White, and on this

2-CD collection, we've rounded up all three of the classic albums

he recorded for Warner Bros. in the early '70s--all of which are out of print and

costing a mint online--plus non-LP singles to create The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings. Recorded

in Memphis (partly at Ardent Studios of Big Star fame), 1971's Tony Joe White paired him with producer

Peter Asher (James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt) and shifted the focus slightly from the fuzz-drenched swamp rock

of White's Monument recordings to a more introspective style, though "They Caught the Devil and Put Him

in Jail in Eudora, Arkansas" and "My Kind of Woman" could blow the doors off any roadhouse south of the

Mason-Dixon line. White's next album, 1972's The Train I'm On, continued this gentler, more vulnerable style to

great effect; produced by the legendary team of Jerry Wexler and Tom Dowd, with the mighty Muscle Shoals

sessioneers in support, Train's set of songs tackled complex themes of dislocation, alienation and loss with a

blend of blues, soul and folk highlighted by some beautiful acoustic guitar work by White and Tippy Armstrong.

It's a masterpiece. And 1973's Homemade Ice Cream might be even better; White's original version of "For

Ol' Times Sake" is just devastating, and "I Want Love ('Tween You and Me)," "Taking the Midnight Train"

and the title track are every bit as good. Co-producer Tom Dowd and a crack band of guitarist Reggie Young,

bassist Norbert Putnam, drummer Kenny Malone and keyboardist David Briggs catch every nuance of these

deceptively simple songs.

//INCL. 6 NON-LP SINGLES