Tony Joe White - Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings (2006)

Artist: Tony Joe White
Title: Swamp Music: The Complete Monument Recordings
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Rhino/Warner Records
Genre: Blues Rock, Country
Audio codec: FLAC
Rip type: image+.cue
Audio bitrate: lossless
Total Time: 04:50:59

Tracklist:
CD1
1. Tony Joe White - Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Remastered Version)
2. Tony Joe White - Soul Francisco (Remastered Version)
3. Tony Joe White - Aspen Colorado (Remastered Version)
4. Tony Joe White - Whompt out on You (Version; Remastered)
5. Tony Joe White - Don't Steal My Love (Remastered Version)
6. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie (Remastered Version)
7. Tony Joe White - Who's Making Love (Remastered Version)
8. Tony Joe White - Scratch My Back (Remastered Version)
9. Tony Joe White - Little Green Apples (Remastered Version)
10. Tony Joe White - Wichita Lineman (Remastered Version)
11. Tony Joe White - The Look of Love (Remastered Version)
12. Tony Joe White - Willie and Laura Mae Jones (Alternate Version)
13. Tony Joe White - I Protest (Remastered Version)
14. Tony Joe White - A Man Can Only Stand Just so Much Pain (Remastered Version)
15. Tony Joe White - Toil & Trouble (Early Version)
16. Tony Joe White - Georgia Pines (Remastered Version)
17. Tony Joe White - It's Not What You Got
18. Tony Joe White - Prison Song
19. Tony Joe White - Hung up on You
20. Tony Joe White - Ten More Miles to Louisiana (Remastered Version)
21. Tony Joe White - Let the Party Roll On
22. Tony Joe White - Watching the Trains Go By (Alternate Version)
23. Tony Joe White - Georgia Pines (Alternate Version)
24. Tony Joe White - Baby Please Don't Go

CD2
1. Tony Joe White - Elements and Things (Remastered Version)
2. Tony Joe White - Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Night of the Mossacin) (Remastered Version)
3. Tony Joe White - Woodpecker (Remastered Version)
4. Tony Joe White - Rainy Night in Georgia (Remastered Version)
5. Tony Joe White - For Le Ann (Remastered Version)
6. Tony Joe White - Old Man Willis (Remastered Version)
7. Tony Joe White - Woman with Soul (Remastered Version)
8. Tony Joe White - I Want You (Remastered Version)
9. Tony Joe White - I Thought I Knew You Well (Remastered Version)
10. Tony Joe White - The Migrant (Remastered Version)
11. Tony Joe White - Watching the Trains Go By (Single Version; Remastered)
12. Tony Joe White - Old Man Willis (Single Version; Remastered Version)
13. Tony Joe White - Funky Fingers
14. Tony Joe White - Soul Britches
15. Tony Joe White - Dusty Marshmallow (Version 1)
16. Tony Joe White - Toil & Trouble (Later Version)
17. Tony Joe White - What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)
18. Tony Joe White - This Guy's in Love with You
19. Tony Joe White - Woodpecker (Alternate Version)
20. Tony Joe White - Laying out All Night
21. Tony Joe White - I Want Your Sweet Love
22. Tony Joe White - Keep a Movin' Train

CD3
1. Tony Joe White - Stud Spider (Remastered Version)
2. Tony Joe White - High Sheriff of Calhoun Parrish (Remastered Version)
3. Tony Joe White - Widow Wimberly (Remastered Version)
4. Tony Joe White - Conjure Woman (Remastered Version)
5. Tony Joe White - Save Your Sugar for Me (Remastered Version)
6. Tony Joe White - Hard to Handle (Remastered Version)
7. Tony Joe White - Tony Joe White - What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) (Remastered Version)
8. Tony Joe White - My Friend (Remastered Version)
9. Tony Joe White - Stockholm Blues (Remastered Version)
10. Tony Joe White - Boom Boom (Remastered Version)
11. Tony Joe White - Groupy Girl (Remastered Version)
12. Tony Joe White - Prisoner
13. Tony Joe White - Do You Want My Love
14. Tony Joe White - Gospel Singer
15. Tony Joe White - I Hate to See You Cry
16. Tony Joe White - Dusty Marshmallow (Version 2)
17. Tony Joe White - I Can't Stand It
18. Tony Joe White - Mississippi River

CD4
1. Tony Joe White - Mississippi Delta
2. Tony Joe White - Chain of Fools
3. Tony Joe White - Woodpecker
4. Tony Joe White - The Ballad of Hollis Brown
5. Tony Joe White - Blue Monday
6. Tony Joe White - Tobacco Road _ Dead End Street
7. Tony Joe White - Caress Me Babe!
8. Tony Joe White - Dusty Marshmallow (Barclay Studio Session, 1969)
9. Tony Joe White - Just Look at You
10. Tony Joe White - Skinny Legs & All
11. Tony Joe White - Boom Boom (Live at Isle of Wight, Aug 28, 1970; Remastered)
12. Tony Joe White - Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Live at Isle of Wight, Aug 28, 1970; Remastered)
13. Tony Joe White - I Want You (Live at Isle of Wight, Aug 28, 1970; Remastered)
14. Tony Joe White - Groupy Girl (Live at Isle of Wight, Aug 28, 1970; Remastered)
15. Tony Joe White - Stud Spider (Live at Isle of Wight, Aug 28, 1970; Remastered)
16. Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie (Live at Isle of Wight, Aug 28, 1970; Remastered)
17. Tony Joe White - Save Your Sugar for Me (Live at Isle of Wight, Aug 28, 1970; Remastered)

This overstuffed box not only includes all three of Tony Joe White's initial albums for Monument, but adds dozens of extra songs and outtakes, most of which have never been heard before, and includes a fourth disc of previously unreleased live and studio tracks. It's a cornucopia of material, nearly all of it worth hearing, but due to its near obsessive vault clearing, the hefty list price, and its limited-edition status (only 5000 were pressed), it is clearly geared to the obsessive White enthusiast. Even though the singer/songwriter/guitarist was signed to Monument in 1966 (both sides of his rare debut single appear as extras on this set's version of Black and White), his first album was not recorded until 1969. By that time White had pretty much nailed the distinctive and ultimately trademark swamp sound that he mined for the rest of his career. The musky yet melodic songs, evocative lyrics and mid-tempo rhythms married to White's baritone voice reveled in his scrappy Louisiana roots. His first disc kicks off with "Willie and Laura Mae Jones," a steaming slice of the backwoods pop that, like most of his finest work, effortlessly combined blues, country and folk. While others had worked similar territory previously, in particular Bobbie Gentry (her "Ode to Billy Joe" was a major inspiration for White), he infused a rock and R&B sensibility that drove the music with gritty authenticity and his "whomper stomper" wah-wah pedal. Most impressive is the amount of material recorded during the period 1969-1971, the three years covered here. Of these 64 studio tracks and outtakes, all but approximately 20 are originals and most are well worth hearing. Billy Swan remained White's producer throughout these albums, and even though some critics find his strings and horns to be unnecessary embellishments, the sweetening seldom overwhelms the music. White rather reluctantly agrees in his interview available in the informative 36-page book that brings additional value to this compilation. The fourth disc features his entire seven-song performance at 1970s Isle of Wight concert. White is joined by Jeff Beck's drummer Cozy Powell, who he had first met earlier that day, and the duo burn through a sizzling set highlighted by a six-minute version of his biggest hit, "Polk Salad Annie." The compilers also unearth a previously unreleased, solo, ten track studio session recorded in Paris in March of 1969 where White covers Gentry's "Mississippi Delta" along with Bob Dylan, Don Covay and Joe Tex, along with a few originals. Not quite essential, it's still more than worthwhile and fans will enjoy experiencing White in his most stripped down format. It's a fitting coda for a long overdue and neatly packaged appreciation of Tony Joe White's significant influence on American roots music