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Harvest 50th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD)
by Doug Collette
To hear and see Neil Young express such deep-seated personal contentment near the end of his film Harvest Time is to understand more fully why he would go to some lengths to curate a box set of the album upon which the movie is based. While some of the content enclosed on the CDs and DVDs in the 50th Anniversary Edition of the 1972 album has been in unofficial circulation for awhile, immersion in the collection vividly depicts the vagaries ...
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by Chris M. Slawecki
You might not recognize Tony Joe White by name but chances are you recognize his songs. A musical lone wolf born and raised on a Louisiana cotton farm about twenty miles from the nearest town (Oak Grove), White's unique blend of country funk and blues proved fertile for soulful singers from Elvis Presley ("Poke Salad Annie") to Brook Benton ("A Rainy Night in Georgia") to Dusty Springfield ("Willie and Laura Mae Jones") to Eric Clapton ("Did Somebody Make ...
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by Doug Collette
If Tony Joe White's seventeenth album, Bad Mouthin', proves anything, it's how deeply evocative of his Southern heritage are his own songs, even as they stand next to--and sound of a piece with--those of Jimmy Reed, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker and Charlie Patton. Appropriately, virtually all twelve tracks on this LP find the author of “Polk Salad Annie" and “Rainy Night in Georgia" playing all by himself, reaffirming the strength in the simplicity of the blues. Not ...
read moreOne Track Mind: Tony Joe White, "Tell Me Why" (2010)
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Something Else!
By Nick DeRiso While much of Tony Joe White's new recording “The Shine" feels so bare-bones as to be undercooked, the muscular “Tell Me Why" bubbles up with the rough moral drama of a storyteller's yarn. Still standing, despite years unjustly spent outside fame's spotlight, White hasn't stopped believing in himself, and in his work: “It's all about the song, keeping it simple," he sings. “You gotta have passion, gotta have soul." The Oak Grove, Louisiana product's time-worn baritone has ...
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