Tony Joe White

Tony Joe White, the Swamp Fox, is exactly the kind of artist I gravitate toward, a songwriter whose voice and guitar feel soaked in Louisiana humidity. Polk Salad Annie remains a swamp-rock cornerstone, but what really gets me is that he wrote Rainy Night in Georgia, a song so durable it became a standard in other singers' hands. That tells me his real gift was craft that outlived any one performance. There's something deeply unhurried and authentic in his sound. I respect that he kept making records right up to his death in 2018, never chasing trends, just trusting the groove he'd carved out.

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Name (English)

Tony Joe White

Name (Japanese)

トニー・ジョー・ホワイト

Reading

とにー・じょー・ほわいと

Born

July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018

Origin

Oak Grove, Louisiana, United States

Occupation

guitarist / singer / songwriter / singer-songwriter / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Goat

• Official sitehttps://www.tonyjoewhite.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/tonyjoewhiteofficial/
• Xhttps://x.com/tonyjoewhite
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Joe%20White
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9B%E3%83%AF%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983338

Tags

• Louisiana
• guitarist
• singer
• songwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.