You’ve probably never heard of Tony Joe White. If you know him at all, it is because you know some of the songs he wrote, like “Polk Salad Annie“, or “Rainy Night in Georgia“, songs covered by many artists. He also wrote “Steamy Windows” and “Undercover Agent for the Blues“, both hits for Tina Turner. Mark Knopfler, (who was Turner’s producer at the time) brought those two songs to her.
Here is Tony Joe White with “Bayou Woman”:
After you listen to “Bayou Woman”, you can hear the strong influence Tony Joe had on Knopfler’s “Sultans of Swing”. TJ toured with Knopfler in Europe in the early 1970s.
When Tony Joe appeared with the Foo Fighters doing “Polk Salad Annie” on Letterman, Dave pointed at Tony Joe and said: “”If I was this guy, you could all kiss my ass”.
Today is also Elvis Presley’s birthday, he would have been 80. Here he is doing “Polk Salad Annie”:
If Letterman was Elvis, we would all probably kiss is ass, too.
