Apr182024

Tony Joe White

Tony Joe White (Oak Grove, Louisiana, July 23, 1943 - October 24, 2018) was an American swamp rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blues", both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner's producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who is a friend of White. Read more on Last.fm

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Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1Polk Salad Annie
253570
2Rainy Night In Georgia
78579
3Homemade Ice Cream
63076
4Willie and Laura Mae Jones
57729
5Who you gonna hoodoo now?
44149
6As the Crow Flies
36841
7Soul Francisco
34833
8Steamy Windows
32024
9I've Got a Thing About You Baby
28913
10Backwoods Preacher Man
21233

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