Swamp Rock
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Tony Joe White: Music Millionaires
Interview by Lon Goddard, Record Mirror, 29 March 1969
TONY JOE WHITE has a sleepy southern Louisiana accent, looks and sounds a lot like American heavy actor Claude Akins, and plays a fast guitar. ...
Review by Mark Williams, International Times, 18 July 1969
THE ONLY OTHER record I possess on English Monument, is Ray Steven's single, 'Mr Businessman', which is beautiful and so is this album by Mr ...
Delaney & Bonnie: Clapton, Jagger, Harrison and Lennon Rave Over Them
Profile by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, 25 October 1969
REPUTATIONS travel, Delaney And Bonnie's travel via Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger and George Harrison. ...
Tony Joe White: What It Is – Is Swamp Music – Is What It Is
Overview by Jerry Wexler, Billboard, December 1969
AT DRUMMER Sammy Creason’s Halloween party in Memphis, his new boss, singer Tony Joe White, holds his breath to close his pores, removes a black ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Creedence's "Band" Tribute To Rock Stars
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 11 April 1970
"IN THE States, they tell us Creedence Clearwater Revival are the stop-gap between the Beatles and the 'next Beatles — whoever the next Beatles may ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, Quintessence: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, The Guardian, 17 April 1970
2019 Update: I was crazy for Creedence. For The Guardian I reviewed Bayou Country in February 1969, saying "I rate John Fogarty as high for ...
Tony Joe White: Tony Joe Declares — Ah'm Aginst Unhealthy Things!
Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 1 August 1970
LISTENING TO Tony Joe White speak is like taking an excursion deep into the man's boots via the steamy swamps of his native Louisiana, where ...
Tony Joe White: This Here, Y'all, Is Tony Joe
Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
PEOPLE OFTEN ask what it's like to interview pop stars. Well like most things in life, there are the good times, and the bad times, ...
Johnny Jenkins: Nothing But The Blues
Interview by Miller Francis Jr., The Great Speckled Bird, 28 September 1970
TON TON Macoute! was recorded in Macon, Georgia at Capricorn Records, at an 8 track studio built "in memory of Otis Redding" by Phil Walden, ...
Profile by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, June 1973
FOR A 'SINGLES' band Creedence Clearwater Revival made a lot of albums: six in two years (1969 – 70), then one as a trio in ...
Tony Joe White: Home Made Ice Cream
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 18 August 1973
I'VE HAD a healthy respect for the work of Tony Joe White for quite some time now, and it is because of the excellence of ...
Tony Joe White: Homemade Ice Cream
Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, October 1973
TONY JOE WHITE just loves to play the ingenu. The sleeve of Homemade Ice Cream has photographs of him "up at Turkey Creek" and titles ...
Dr. John: The Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 29 November 1973
Dr. John: Just What Audience Ordered ...
Jim Stafford: The Gators Growl in Hog Town
Profile and Interview by Jim Esposito, Page One, December 1974
JIM STAFFORD stepped up to the microphone on the 15-yard line of the University of Florida's football field, pinpointed at the vortex of four spotlights ...
Johnnie Allan: The Promised Land …… And How To Get There: Oval Records
Report by Charlie Gillett, New Musical Express, 21 December 1974
Inside looking out; CHARLIE GILLETT, who has started his own record label, Oval Records, reports from the other side of the fence on the processes ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 23 October 1975
JOHN FOGERTY singlehandedly prepares records that are virtually perfect in execution as well as conception: brilliantly concise self-expression, captivating and broad-based radio music. Though he ...
Tony Joe White: Eyes (20th Century)
Review by Chas de Whalley, Sounds, 1976
SO YOU thought Tony Joe White was a downhome country guy with his feet firmly in the mud of the Mississippi swamps? ...
Delbert McClinton: Love Rustler
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 14 May 1977
IN THE grand tradition of Elvis and Tony Joe White this is white, southern r'n'b. ...
Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, June 1977
The Louisiana Swamp God on having his best stuff rejected by Warner Bros.; selling songs to others, and his pleasure at some of their versions; Elvis doing 'Polk Salad Annie'; on songwriting; on being compared to Barry White; on going fishing with his mom, and eating catfish; his new album, Eyes, and looking back at how he got started.
File format: mp3; file size: 21.9mb, interview length: 22' 47" sound quality: *****
Johnnie Allan: A Swamp-Pop Special
Profile and Interview by Bill Millar, New Kommotion, 1978
I'VE A CONFESSION to make. I know nothing about rockabilly (you guessed huh?). All these years I've been into blues, soul doowop and swamp-pop, especially ...
Swamp Rock: Local heroes who rocked the everglades
Overview by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1983
Four hundred miles of US highway run between Port Arthur, Texas in the West and New Orleans, Louisiana in the East. On either side of ...
Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 6 October 1984
ANCIENT BEAT journalist and hippie doyen Ralph J. Gleason, who could be a daft old coot at the best of times, got it completely wrong ...
Tony Joe White: Club Lingerie, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 1988
Swamp-Rocker White: Sandpaper 'n' Molasses ...
Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, X, Neil Young: Rock Of Middle Ages
Comment by Tim Riley, The Boston Phoenix, 9 February 1990
The new traditionalism looks for its roots. ...
Report and Interview by Chris Bourke, Rip It Up (New Zealand), November 1993
AS YOU DRIVE south out of Memphis down Highway 61, the trees and houses stop at the edge of the city limits. On either side ...
Dr. John: Hoodoo Man: Mac Rebennack
Interview by Hank Bordowitz, Jazziz, July 1994
MAC REBENNACK'S music continues a 40 year long mardi gras of the mind, a sound that never gets old, never gets tired. ...
The Band, Bobby Charles: The Story of Bobby Charles and Bearsville
Retrospective and Interview by Colin Escott, Stony Plain Records, September 1994
BOBBY CHARLES IS one of the great Louisiana records, and there have been a few. It doesn't matter that it was recorded in upstate New ...
Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson: Jim Dickinson: Earth Father
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Gordon, MOJO, October 1994
Backwoods, Mississippi. Home to Jim Dickinson, the revered producer and professional redneck whose work spans the story of Southern music from Sun Records to Big ...
Excello: It Came From the Swamp
Overview by Kirk Silsbee, Huh, September 1995
ONE OF the hallmarks of a great regional record label is the ability to define a time and place in the mind's ear. Think of ...
Bobby Charles (1997) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Holger Petersen, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 23 May 1997
This is a transcript of Holger's audio interview with Bobby. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: “I Was the Leader Already": Creedence's Beginnings
Book Excerpt by Hank Bordowitz, Schirmer Books, 1998
IN 1958 ROCK music had passed its infancy -- it was more like a toddler -- but it still was not reputable. Not many high ...
Bobby Charles: Wish You Were Here
Sleeve notes by Colin Escott, Stony Plain Records, 2001
IT'S BOBBY CHARLES'S personal preference to maintain a low profile. He has famous friends who get twitchy when they're out of the limelight for ...
Review by Adam Sweeting, Uncut, November 2003
AMONG THE NUMEROUS highlights of Brian Wilson's extraordinary comeback concerts last year was his performance of 'Surf's Up' a track once destined for the mysterious ...
Profile and Interview by Holly George-Warren, Harp, January 2005
TONY JOE White is having his picture taken. By the looks of things, the Ray-Ban-wearing sixty-something-year-old is an A-list movie star, rather than a singer/songwriter/guitarist ...
Tony Joe White: Just Like Fonzie
Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 14 September 2006
Nearly 40 years into his music career, Tony Joe White still feels cool. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Hugh Fielder, Classic Rock, October 2006
HAD IT NOT been for the in-fighting, the pressure, crap deals, "stolen" songs and one control-freak member's desire to run the whole show, Creedence Clearwater ...
Tony Joe White: Audience With The Other Elvis
Interview by Chris Campion, Daily Telegraph, 30 December 2006
Tony Joe White, writer of 'Polk Salad Annie' and 'Rainy Night in Georgia', talks to Chris Campion about his mythic songs and his Louisiana childhood ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 15 January 2010
THE ROCK'N'ROLL CLASSICS 'See You Later, Alligator' and 'Walking to New Orleans' are among the compositions of the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter Bobby Charles, who has died aged ...
Bobby Charles, the Inventor of Swamp Pop and Songwriter Supreme
Obituary by John Broven, Now Dig This, February 2010
WITH ROCK 'N' roll exploding in austerity-ridden England in the mid-1950s, there was one hip phrase that stood out from the rest: "See you later ...
John Fogerty: Beacon Theatre, NYC (Nov. 24, 2009)
Live Review by Kris DiLorenzo, Rock's Backpages, 6 September 2010
LONG-OVERDUE review of one of the best shows I've seen all year, by the American singer/songwriter I'd consider second only to Springsteen. (There – that ...
Obituary by John Broven, Now Dig This, Summer 2011
AFTER A PERIOD of failing health, Southern record man Huey Purvis Meaux died at home in Winnie, Texas, on April 23 at age 82. He ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bad Blood Rising
Retrospective and Interview by David Cavanagh, Uncut, February 2012
AT THE DAWN of the '70s, Creedence Clearwater Revival were the biggest band in the world — a brilliant and driven hit machine with deep ...
Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Fogerty: John Fogerty
Interview by Bob Mehr, MOJO, June 2013
The prime mover behind Creedence Clearwater Revival, he crafted blazing pop songs of soul and protest until band strife and label hell undid him. But ...
Bobby Charles, Shannon McNally: Small Town Talk: Shannon McNally's tribute to Bobby Charles
Report and Interview by John Swenson, Oxford American, 2 July 2013
DURING A VISIT to New Orleans twelve years ago, Shannon McNally, a talented young vocalist from New York with a critically acclaimed pop debut to ...
Review by Jon Young, Mother Jones, 23 September 2013
LOUISIANA-BORN Tony Joe White scored his biggest hit, the stomping 'Polk Salad Annie', in 1969, and has been making great swamp rock ever since. ...
Review and Interview by Luke Torn, Uncut, 12 May 2014
Swamp-pop goes Woodstock: Louisiana legend's rarely heard '72 masterpiece with The Band... ...
Dr. John, Steve Mann: Mystic vapour: 'Jump Sturdy'
Book Excerpt by David Toop, Strange Attractor Press, August 2024
An excerpt from David Toop's Two-Headed Doctor: Listening For Ghosts in Dr. John's Gris-Gris, published by Strange Attractor Press in the UK and MIT in ...
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