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My Take
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.
Overview
Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie" and for "Rainy Night in Georgia", which he wrote but which was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Goat
- Origin
- Oak Grove, Louisiana, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- guitarist / singer / songwriter / singer-songwriter / composer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.