Tony_Joe_White-Night_Of_The_Moccasin-CD-FLAC-1999-401

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     Artist......: Tony Joe White
     Album.......: Night Of The Moccasin

     Source......: CD
     Label.......: Music Avenue
     Genre.......: Rock


     Tracks......: 8
     Bitrate.....: 852 kbps avg
     Playtime....: 00:32:54  (208.MB)
     Rls date....: 2021-05-04
     Store date..: 1999-01-13
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
     Url.........: http://www.tonyjoewhite.com/



     01 Polk Salad Annie                                                 3:34
     02 Baby Please Dont Go                                              3:34
     03 I Want You                                                       7:32
     04 Roosevelt And Ira Lee (Night Of The Moccasin)                    4:41
     05 Hard To Handle                                                   3:57
     06 When You Touch Me                                                5:12
     07 You Got Me Running                                               2:56
     08 You Got Me Running (Part Two)                                    1:28



     Tony Joe White's Night of the Moccasin album is built around a concert
     recording made in 1969 or 1970. It features White swaggering through a
     clutch of tough-as-rock blues and soul covers like Big Joe Williams' "Baby
     Please Don't Go," Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle" and Jimmy Reed's "You Got
     Me Runnin'" as well as some originals. "I Want You" is a sludgy, nasty
     groover that has some truly scuzzy guitar solos and sounds like it could
     have come off a Jon Spencer Blues Explosion record, one of White's
     trademark swampy story songs "Roosevelt & Ira Lee (Night of the Moccasin),"
     and "When You Touch Me," a slight and uninteresting jam. Too bad the whole
     concert sounds like it was recorded through a wall of steel wool. The
     vocals are muffled at times; the sound cuts in and out and generally sounds
     no better than a hastily made bootleg. A couple of the songs ("I Want You"
     in particular) show White to be a dynamic performer with a lot more guts
     than one might imagine. As a dubious bonus, the record kicks off with a
     version of "Polk Salad Annie" that sounds like it was taped off the radio.
     It might be an alternate take, maybe a demo, more likely it is exactly what
     it sounds like. It shouldn't be here regardless. Too bad a live version of
     the song isn't. This material has been released four or five times over the
     years by various labels.

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