Track Listing
1. Crack The Window Baby
2. Gumbo John
3. Across From Midnight
4. Goin' Down Rockin'
5. Cold Fingers
6. I Want My Fleetwood Back
7. I Believe I've Lost My Way
8. Don't Overdo It
9. Delta Singer
10. Ol Black Crow
11. One Hot July
12. Conjure Woman
13. Selena
14. One Hot July (string ensemble)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Roger Davies, Tony Joe White | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Personnel: Tony Joe White (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Rachel Jordan, Elizabeth Plju, Amy L. Thiaville, Bill Schultz (strings); Garson Whitsett (keyboards); Michelle White (Yamaha DX7 synthesizer); Eric Watkins (bass); Marc Cohen (drums); Luis Conte (percussion); Chet Hinesley.Recorded at Studio In The Country, Bogalusa, Louisiana.Widely credited as the inventor of the swamp-rock style, Tony Joe White spent most of the '80s and '90s writing songs for other artists-including Tina Turner. Naturally, he's a cult figure in France. ONE HOT JULY marks the first new material White has released Stateside in nearly a decade. The album is a remarkable return to form, thoroughly of a piece with White's earlier recordings. If anything, JULY is even richer and more evocative. His sepulchral vocals have darkened and deepened with the years-if White sounded like a bluesman on his 1969 hit "Polk Salad Annie," he now sounds like a really scary bluesman. His guitar work remains the music's focus, with sinuous, Mark Knopfler-style finger picking layered over great, funky rhythm parts. White plays both acoustic and electric instruments, and he still gets more out of a wah-wah pedal than anybody this side of Jimi Hendrix. And he's still writing sinister-sounding, mid-tempo blues love songs ("Crack the Window Baby", "Cold Fingers"). A semi-rockabilly tribute to a beloved car ("I Want My Fleetwood Back"), the folksy, string-laden title track, and "Selena," a poignant farewell to the murdered Tejano star, make for memorable exceptions.
Editorial Reviews
...he rolls through yet more songs about cars, witchy woman and sinister black crows that sit on telegraph poles...
Mojo (02/01/1999)
...White's husky croak of a voice is perfect for these loping late-night excursions...
Dirty Linen (04/01/1999)
...Thought-provoking and deeply emotional...
Living Blues (11/01/2001)
...he rolls through yet more songs about cars, witchy woman and sinister black crows that sit on telegraph poles...Dirty Linen (4-5/99, pp.74-5) - ...White's husky croak of a voice is perfect for these loping late-night excursions...Living Blues (11-12/01, p.83) - ...Thought-provoking and deeply emotional...
Mojo (02/01/1999)
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