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Post subject: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 6:15 am
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Legendary Tony Joe White has passed. You may not know the name, but you will know his songs. From Tina’s Steamy Windows to Ray Charles’ Rainy Night In Georgia, from touring with Steppenwolf and Clapton, from sessions with Jerry Lee and Paul Revere, from early advice from Bobbie Gentry to debuting on the stage of the Grand Old Opry this past September 28, 2018, Blues man Tony White did it all.
https://musicrow.com/2018/10/swamp-fox- ... te-passes/



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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:17 am
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wow, huge loss.

You're right I wouldn't have known the name but sure do know a lot of the songs.


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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 8:13 am
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Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie

Rest in peace, swampfox! :(

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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 12:26 pm
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Oh my another great one gone, 75 and a heart attack, make me think as I get older yikes
RIP Tony Joe White your songs will go on
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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:39 pm
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I saw this last night. I'm well familiar with his works. RIP, Tony. :(

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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:35 pm
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Thank you for posting FSB. R.I.P. Tony.

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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 11:10 am
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Giving away my age but naturally I know about TJW......loved Polk Salad Annie back in the day and I'm guessing my introduction as a kid to Swamp Rock. Not bad considering this was growing up in a foreign country where some would probably not have expected obscure artists like TJW to be on the radio. My father even had an Elvis record where he covered the song.

Speaking of introductions. Here is my introduction, of me to you......in terms of my lengthy forum post wordiness. I am a man of few words as to what comes out of my mouth. A grunt here, an mhmm there. Many monosyllables. Give me a pen or a typing keyboard however........ look out!! Sorry, in advance.

What I find interesting or ironic or what have you......is, totally out of the blue I just started thinking hard on Tony Joe a week ago or so. I looked up Polk Salad Annie on Youtube, searched him out on Google, sent the YT link of PSA to a couple buddies who like Americana style music and even searched out the lyrics to PSA to see if I had remembered them correctly back in the day. LOL....the lyrics I heard properly but was not entirely sure about, were....'truck patch', 'tow sack' and the low vocal part ....."'gators got your grannie". I heard it as 'gators' but had to be sure.

I did not realize or pick up on the fact he was sick. In fact it was coming here to read at the forum, that I found out he had passed. I still don't know what got him... illness or whatever, heart attack, yada yada....I'll go find out after I type this.

Ah, I just looked back on the posts....heart attack. Sucks! I get what you are saying' mud...... no doubt. I had a 'mild' stroke in 2014. Mild in the sense it didn't nail me or leave me paralyzed etc. Still have numbness down the entire right side of my body which now seems to randomly affect/bother or be noticeable in a different region, lower leg, face, right arm etc.....but it is mild enough to not affect use of that part.

My playing.....thank the good Lord....was not affected in any way I can tell.

But yes mud..... as one grows older, one begins to feel less and less omnipotent or immortal, as one did when younger perhaps. Gotta try quit those cigarettes folks, get enough exercise and sleep and attempt to eat a little healthier. It all helps with peace of mind at least. Unsolicited advice over!

I smoked both types of tobacky...the brown type and the greener version....... :shock: 8) for many years-around 30. Quit both....to the most part *cough-cough*......... :twisted: when I quit tobacco entirely about 19 years ago. Never felt better. I was a 2 to 2-1/2 pack a day smoker-non filters for years.....fricken disgusting. I'm glad LA was an early adopter of non smoking venues, later no smoking in public places. It helped.

Anyway....don't know if it was a premonition or what that something bad was going to happen to Tony Joe....just interesting. It has happened many times in my life.....a few times with people....mostly with events and I have always thought of myself as mildly clairvoyant.......very mildly though. And it is usually always in hindsight and in private. It's not like I'll get a vision or anything and be able to rush out yelling that a fricken flaming comet is about to hit exactly 2 miles outside of Ojai California at exactly 15:04pm or some other weird shite. More like...I just had a feeling something bad was going to happen. I think many people are mildly clairvoyant like that 'cos you often hear someone say stuff like I did here. "You know I was just thinking about that last week!"....type of stuff.

That said I also think that fortune tellers, astrology/palm reader types, spoon benders, hypnotist entertainers, escape artists, magicians, tragedy predictors etc etc etc are all majorly FOS ..........along with conspiracy theorists and colon hydro'therapists'. :lol:

RIP Tony Joe White. Thanks for the inspiration.


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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 7:27 am
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Fumbly wrote:
Giving away my age but naturally I know about TJW......loved Polk Salad Annie back in the day and I'm guessing my introduction as a kid to Swamp Rock. Not bad considering this was growing up in a foreign country where some would probably not have expected obscure artists like TJW to be on the radio. My father even had an Elvis record where he covered the song.

Speaking of introductions. Here is my introduction, of me to you......in terms of my lengthy forum post wordiness. I am a man of few words as to what comes out of my mouth. A grunt here, an mhmm there. Many monosyllables. Give me a pen or a typing keyboard however........ look out!! Sorry, in advance.

What I find interesting or ironic or what have you......is, totally out of the blue I just started thinking hard on Tony Joe a week ago or so. I looked up Polk Salad Annie on Youtube, searched him out on Google, sent the YT link of PSA to a couple buddies who like Americana style music and even searched out the lyrics to PSA to see if I had remembered them correctly back in the day. LOL....the lyrics I heard properly but was not entirely sure about, were....'truck patch', 'tow sack' and the low vocal part ....."'gators got your grannie". I heard it as 'gators' but had to be sure.

I did not realize or pick up on the fact he was sick. In fact it was coming here to read at the forum, that I found out he had passed. I still don't know what got him... illness or whatever, heart attack, yada yada....I'll go find out after I type this.

Ah, I just looked back on the posts....heart attack. Sucks! I get what you are saying' mud...... no doubt. I had a 'mild' stroke in 2014. Mild in the sense it didn't nail me or leave me paralyzed etc. Still have numbness down the entire right side of my body which now seems to randomly affect/bother or be noticeable in a different region, lower leg, face, right arm etc.....but it is mild enough to not affect use of that part.

My playing.....thank the good Lord....was not affected in any way I can tell.

But yes mud..... as one grows older, one begins to feel less and less omnipotent or immortal, as one did when younger perhaps. Gotta try quit those cigarettes folks, get enough exercise and sleep and attempt to eat a little healthier. It all helps with peace of mind at least. Unsolicited advice over!

I smoked both types of tobacky...the brown type and the greener version....... :shock: 8) for many years-around 30. Quit both....to the most part *cough-cough*......... :twisted: when I quit tobacco entirely about 19 years ago. Never felt better. I was a 2 to 2-1/2 pack a day smoker-non filters for years.....fricken disgusting. I'm glad LA was an early adopter of non smoking venues, later no smoking in public places. It helped.

Anyway....don't know if it was a premonition or what that something bad was going to happen to Tony Joe....just interesting. It has happened many times in my life.....a few times with people....mostly with events and I have always thought of myself as mildly clairvoyant.......very mildly though. And it is usually always in hindsight and in private. It's not like I'll get a vision or anything and be able to rush out yelling that a fricken flaming comet is about to hit exactly 2 miles outside of Ojai California at exactly 15:04pm or some other weird shite. More like...I just had a feeling something bad was going to happen. I think many people are mildly clairvoyant like that 'cos you often hear someone say stuff like I did here. "You know I was just thinking about that last week!"....type of stuff.

That said I also think that fortune tellers, astrology/palm reader types, spoon benders, hypnotist entertainers, escape artists, magicians, tragedy predictors etc etc etc are all majorly FOS ..........along with conspiracy theorists and colon hydro'therapists'. :lol:

RIP Tony Joe White. Thanks for the inspiration.

Fumbly Nice 2nd post. Welcome to the forum I think you will like it here. Lot's of great knowledge and helpful members here on these forums. I am quite the opposite get me talking I don't quite, put a pen or keyboard in front of me, short and to the point
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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:05 pm
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Thanks, for your posts fellas, and welcome to the Forum(s), Fumbly.

I second giving up the smokes. I started at home when I could earn my keep, and with the Navy providing 15 cents a package with no tax or duty I too was two packs a day and I did enjoy my pipe. Twenty three years later I finally cold turkeyed it after many failures, and I then went through extreme withdrawals that gave me shakes and talking to the great white telephone for a month straight. I swore that I would have to be strong, and that I needed to beat it for good, because I would never attempt to quit again. It was then I knew I had an addiction that was not unlike many others. Did it stop me from narrowly beating a heart attack or recently having a cardiologist in an OR? Nope! However, after quitting, 31 years later it was one of the best things I ever did, and it gave me some more time to enjoy it here on the Forum and with others. Highly recommended.

Sadly, whether he smoked or not, TJW wasn’t as fortunate, but what a legacy he left for us to enjoy.

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Post subject: Re: Legendary singer/songwriter Tony Joe White dead
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 11:24 pm
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Friend of mine from back home went that way. He was the first really good drummer I ever played with-when he was a freshman in high school and I was a senior....becoming perhaps the best drummer I ever played with.... along with Toss Panos and a couple others. He went to Berklee but since they had no drum program he did guitar and he played the instrument when we were coming up....we always used to get together and push each other. Became a hell of a player......shredmeister which was never my thing...tapping and all that. But our styles complimented each other and lead to years of hours and hours of pushing each other really hard. Me into exotic scales and coming from The Lydian Chromatic Concept Of Tonal Organization by George Russell angle.......him into Yngwie stuff combined with a Berklee background....very melodic.

Healthy dude other than smoking...but he wasn't a hardcore smoker. Less than a pack a day. Ate decently to the most part and lived an outdoor beach lifestyle. We both surfed and he was also into kayaking, cycling and tennis. Well, he went back to South Africa for a visit over Christmas and to see his 15yr old daughter who he hadn't seen in about 3 years since his divorce-his ex took her back to South Africa. On his first day over there...and one day prior to seeing his little girl.....he went on a hike up Table Mountain in Cape Town, with some friends. He walked up ahead to have a smoke.....sat down on a large rock, crossed his legs into the Lotus position which he always did....... and immediately just keeled over. Died instantly from a massive heart attack which I'm sure he never even saw coming.

I've lost a few muzo buddies over the years and have gotten less omnipotent feeling over time.....I've also come to terms with the fact that if it's going to bite you.......it will. In the meantime.....what's to lose to try stop doing the stuff you know plays a big part in the demise of many? I was lucky....and blessed. I had tried countless times over the years to quit cigarettes and failed miserably every time. One day about 20 years ago.....I woke up on some day in between Xmas and New Year (the absolute worst time to try quit), I was hacking up a lung as usual........and I just said to myself out loud..."Fark it!! I'm done....that's it...it's over....no more cigarettes!!" and it was as if a switch was turned off. One day I was a 2 to 2-1/2 pack a day hopelessly addicted smoker......and the next day I was a complete non-smoker. No withdrawals at all.....no cravings, no head games, no nothing. Gone! I could even go stand outside the stages with my smoker buddies while they fired up and did not have a single urge to have one!! It was as if I had never smoked. I gotta figure divine intervention but I don't know how that type of conversation goes down here so I won't go there......other than to just say that. Damn I was fortunate.

I sincerely hope it goes for others that way also. If I can do it so can you 'cos I was a HEAVY smoker for about 30+ years. You gotta just think about it a lot I think. Keep seeing a mental image of yourself eventually quitting.......keep that front and center. I think it helps prep you for the day you say the hell with it.


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