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On May 7th,
Smoke from the Chimney, a nine-song album of never-before-heard
Tony Joe White tunes, will be released on Easy Eye Sound. Produced by Dan Auerbach and rounded out by Nashville’s most seasoned studio musicians,
Smoke from the Chimney started out as a number of unadorned voice and guitar demos from White’s home studio before being transformed into full band arrangements harkening back to the albums he recorded in the late 60s and early 70s in Nashville and Muscle Shoals just as he was emerging as an internationally recognized songwriter and recording artist.
It takes a keen eye and a steady hand to restore something great from the past; to take the time to examine, catalog, and care for every last task without resorting to bolt-on mail-order parts and cheap paint. What was always great deserves that extra care and attention to detail, and when the time came for White’s son and manager Jody White to revisit his dad’s catalog of unreleased songs, he knew Au
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Tony Joe White was best known for writing Rainy Night in Georgia, made popular in 1970 by Brook Benton. I think it was the first time I heard Brook Benton s Rainy Night In Georgia, Dan Auerbach says during a call from his Nashville studio about discovering Tony Joe White. I d heard the song a bunch already, and I just figured it was a Ray Charles song or something. But then I heard Tony Joe s version and everything about it just blew my mind.
White, the southern singer-songwriter who died in 2018, is fresh on Auerbach s mind because the latter recently completed producing an album of never-before-heard songs from the Americana swamp rocker.