White is probably best known for the song "Polk Salad Annie," which he wrote and which was a Top Ten hit in the U.S. in 1969. He also wrote "Rainy Night in Georgia," which was a Top Ten hit for Brook Benton in 1970, and was included in Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the top 500 songs of all time. White's career faded into obscurity in the late 1970s, done in by disco like so many others at the time. But he had a revival in the 1990s, including writing some hits for Tina Turner.
Here's his Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:
I just posted a BBC concert by Labelle. I mentioned there that I'd found a couple more episodes of the early 1970s BBC TV show "In Concert." The Labelle one was one, and this is the other one. Let's hope still more of these emerge. Like the Labelle one, the date I'm using here is the broadcast date. If anyone knows the recording let me know, so I can use that instead.
This album is 30 minutes long.
01 Polk Salad Annie (Tony Joe White)
02 talk (Tony Joe White)
03 Rainy Night in Georgia (Tony Joe White)
04 talk (Tony Joe White)
05 Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Tony Joe White)
06 talk (Tony Joe White)
07 Groupy Girl (Tony Joe White)
08 talk (Tony Joe White)
09 The Migrant (Tony Joe White)
10 talk (Tony Joe White)
11 Roosevelt and Ira Lee [Night of the Moccasin] (Tony Joe White)
12 talk (Tony Joe White)
13 Save Your Sugar for Me (Tony Joe White)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/CjTmC2f8
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/V4jkix92Huy6GgT/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert.
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