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Live Music Info: Harelbeke (Belgium). |
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Live Music Info
Harelbeke R&B festival. In 1969, Tony Joe White introduced the Swampblues into our world. His "Polk Salad Annie" immediately became a top ten hit in the US. Only a year later, soulsinger Brook Benton covered Tony's ageless classical "Rainy Night in Georgia". During the seventies, Tony Joe toured around with many great artists like Creedence Clearwater Revival and James Taylor. Thirty years later, this brilliant artist hasn't paid in any of his relevance. He continues writing and singing songs with a high level of blues and soul, he creates realistic swampcharacters and writes real stories about life and love. In the nineties, Tony Joe experienced some huge commercial successes when superstar Tina Turner recorded 4 of his numbers. The worldhit "Steamy Windows" is on Tina's "Foreign Affairs" album, which made platinum several times. By the way, Tony Joe White was the producer of this title-song. In our part of the world Tony Joe White enjoyed a status as a living legend. In the meantime he toured in '91 and '92 with Eric Clapton and Joe Cocker. He recorded two albums for Remark: "The Path of a Decent Groove" and "Lake Placid Blues". This last album received a nomination for the best R&B album from Nashville Music Awards. The songs written by Tony Joe White have been recorded by the greatest artists: from Elvis to Ray Charles, Hank Williams Jr. to Tim McCraw, John Mayall to Waylon Jennings. He made contributions to the soundtracks of Millennium and Selena and Hotspot (with Don Johnson). Recently, he worked with Marc Bryan from Hootie & The Blowfish and with Michael McDonald. In 2002, Tony Joe White released "The Beginning". An acoustic masterpiece from an artist, who after all these years still amazes us. |
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Live Music Info May 2002 |
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