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Posthumous Tony Joe White Album, Smoke from the Chimney, Set For May 7th Release With Easy Eye Sound<\/div>\n
Produced by Dan Auerbach from nine unreleased vocal\/guitar demos; \u201cBoot Money\u201d and accompanying animated video out now via NPR\/World Cafe<\/div>\n
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\u201cSmoke From The Chimney is more than a faithful tribute to one of the great Americana musicians and national treasures, performed by an ensemble who capture the DNA of Tony Joe White\u2019s songs with beauty, warmth, and reverence.\u201d<\/div>\n
–NPR\u2019s Bruce Warren<\/a><\/div>\n
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February 19, 2021 – Nashville, TN – On May 7th, Smoke from the Chimney, a nine-song album of never-before-heard Tony Joe White<\/a> tunes, will be released on Easy Eye Sound. Produced by Dan Auerbach and rounded out by Nashville\u2019s most seasoned studio musicians, Smoke from the Chimney started out as a number of unadorned voice and guitar demos from White\u2019s home studio before being transformed into full band arrangements harkening back to the albums he recorded in the late 60s and early 70s in Nashville and Muscle Shoals\u2014just as he was emerging as an internationally recognized songwriter and recording artist.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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It takes a keen eye and a steady hand to restore something great from the past; to take the time to examine, catalog, and care for every last task without resorting to bolt-on mail-order parts and cheap paint. What was always great deserves that extra care and attention to detail, and when the time came for White\u2019s son and manager Jody White to revisit his dad\u2019s catalog of unreleased songs, he knew Auerbach was the one to make them shine once more.<\/div>\n
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Yesterday, NPR\/World Cafe<\/a> gave fans their first listen of \u201cBoot Money,\u201d a gritty, thumping ode to keeping a little bit of extra scratch hidden away. Of \u201cBoot Money\u201d and the album as a whole, Bruce Warren of World Cafe wrote, \u201cFor Tony Joe fans, these songs and the stories they tell, are some of his best. It\u2019s hard to conceive that these were songs that didn\u2019t make it on previous albums.\u201d \u201cBoot Money\u201d comes accompanied by an animated video from director Robert Schober which colorfully places White and Auerbach in the recording studio to kick off the tune before following along while White lives out the song\u2019s storyline. “As someone who grew up in Louisiana and the Panhandle,\u201d says Schober, \u201cit was a pleasure working on video paying homage to a legend of the southern airwaves.” Fans can see the video for \u201cBoot Money\u201d at this link<\/a> and pre-order or pre-save Smoke from the Chimney right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the last 10 to 15 years of his life, White would preserve new compositions or revisit older tracks in his home studio with only a guitar\u2014usually his Fender Stratocaster\u2014and that inimitable voice. Most of that material would ultimately wind up on his late-career albums. But when an unproven song didn\u2019t make the cut for a release, or if he couldn\u2019t get another artist interested, the song stayed right where it was as Tony Joe moved on to other things. This dismissal was not a reflection of the song\u2019s quality; in fact, it meant quite the opposite, as he would often reserve his best material for other artists.<\/div>\n
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After his father\u2019s death in 2018, Jody started transferring those multitrack home recordings to digital files. Looking back on the moment he unearthed the demo of \u201cSmoke from the Chimney,\u201d he recalls a mix of happiness, gratification, and shock. As he continued to find other songs that didn\u2019t make an album, he moved the material into a separate folder. Within a year, those select recordings would evolve into Smoke from the Chimney. Jody says that even in those basic tracks, that definitive Tony Joe White groove instantly stood out. \u201cHe always finds a tempo and a pocket that is exactly right. And it\u2019s a little bit different than anybody else would choose themselves,\u201d he says.<\/div>\n
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Ever since meeting Tony Joe backstage at an Australian music festival in 2009, Auerbach sought to make a record with him. For nearly a decade, Jody tried to line up session time for them but Tony Joe demurred. \u201cFor one reason or another, my Dad would never just want to go into a studio and write with somebody, or go work with somebody,\u201d Jody says. \u201cHe liked to do it at his place, and his way, and it turned out how it turned out, you know what I mean? So, this album really all worked out perfectly. He was making these tracks for Dan all along, but we just didn\u2019t know it.\u201d<\/div>\n
Auerbach agrees. \u201cJody and I had been talking about this record for so long, and it didn\u2019t happen for a reason,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s because it wasn\u2019t supposed to happen. I was in a nervous cast of characters until the last few years, and if you\u2019d given it to me any earlier, it wouldn\u2019t have been right. I felt like all these people on the record were the right people and they laid in there behind Tony Joe. It felt really magical when we were making it happen.\u201d<\/div>\n
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\u201cThese songs feel like a collection to me and they all seem to work together, in a weird way, even though they\u2019re so different,\u201d says Auerbach, who is releasing the album on his Easy Eye Sound label. \u201cThere\u2019s some heartbreaking ballads and some really raunchy carnal blues. But it all works together like scenes of a movie.\u201d The cast of musical characters brought in by Auerbach to accompany White\u2019s guitar and vocal recordings includes legendary keyboardist Bobby Wood (Elvis Presley, Dusty Springfield, Wilson Pickett), Nashville pedal steel ace Paul Franklin, next-generation guitar hero Marcus King, and Grammy and ACM award-winning fiddler Stuart Duncan, just to name a few.<\/div>\n
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Jody believes that his father would love the way Smoke From the Chimney turned out. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s validation that Tony Joe was one of the greatest of all time,\u201d he says. \u201cThat he could make something so potent, even so late in life, is something that not many people can do. I think it\u2019s going to make people who loved him already love him even more.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Smoke from the Chimney Tracklist:<\/div>\n
Smoke from the Chimney<\/div>\n
Boot Money<\/div>\n
Del Rio, You\u2019re Making Me Cry<\/div>\n
Listen to Your Song<\/div>\n
Over You<\/div>\n
Scary Stories<\/div>\n
Bubba Jones<\/div>\n
Someone Is Crying<\/div>\n
Billy<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Posthumous Tony Joe White Album, Smoke from the Chimney, Set For May 7th Release With Easy Eye Sound Produced by Dan Auerbach from nine unreleased vocal\/guitar demos; \u201cBoot Money\u201d and accompanying animated video out now via NPR\/World Cafe \u201cSmoke From The Chimney is more than a faithful tribute to one of the great Americana musicians […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t