Tony Joe White is 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 was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote "Steamy Windows" and "Undercover Agent for the Blu...
[from a 2013 press release] There's not a push nowhere. Maybe I'll stop playing shows and making records when the songs quit coming to me. But they still come to me. You see, I don't work for a song -- but once I get a hold of it I don't let go. I just keep writing, and when I do, I want to go out and play it for somebody. It's the songwriting that keeps me going.
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I never cared to learn much about "show business" -- I'm still kind of green and crisp. I think if you spend too much time learning all that, there's no telling how many good songs you might cancel out.
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When I look back now, I guess it was pretty different to be doing what I was doing and sounding like I was sounding. I haven't changed a whole lot; I'm almost a lone wolf out there. I just play my guitar and don't worry about it. They don't know if I'm black, white, country or rock.
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[on his appeal as a performer] If you have to explain it to them, you've lost it.
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Better Call Saul
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2015 writer - 1 episode, 2015
Late Show with David Letterman
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2014 writer - 1 episode, 2014
The Marty Stuart Show
2014
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Sons of Anarchy
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2013 writer - 1 episode, 2013
Luck
TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2012 writer - 1 episode, 2012
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
2011
Documentary writer: "Polk Salad Annie"
Runaway
2010/I
Short writer: "Hell of a Life" "Hell of a Life - uncredited
20 to 1
2010
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
O chyom govoryat muzhchiny
2010
lyrics: "Keep Going" - as T. J. White / performer: "Keep Going"
Two and a Half Men
2009
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie
2006
writer: "Polk Salad Annie"
The Dukes of Hazzard
2005
performer: "Roosevelt and Ira Lee Night of the Mossacin" / writer: "Roosevelt and Ira Lee Night of the Mossacin"
$500 Thousand
