Tony Joe White - Closer To The Truth (1991)
Tony Joe White - Closer To The Truth (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 343 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 132 Mb | Scans ~ 54 Mb
Singer/Songwriter, Swamp Rock, Blues | Label: Remark | # 511 386-2 | Time: 00:57:59
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 343 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 132 Mb | Scans ~ 54 Mb
Singer/Songwriter, Swamp Rock, Blues | Label: Remark | # 511 386-2 | Time: 00:57:59
You'll recognise the wonderful Steamy Windows (covered by good friend Tina Turner with TJW backing her) but the awesome opening track Tunica Motel which tells of Tony Joe's return to his blues roots sets the stage for the whole album. Tunica Motel has it all - strong hooks and TJW's strong songwriting which starts as a song about getting away from it all, and becomes, gradually, a gut-spilling account. "I'm so tired of fighting with myself…" confesses TJW. Later, when he's contemplating his musical direction, he "sees the ghost of Robert Johnson" and for me the line brings an involunatary tingle down my spine every time I hear it, which is often. Tony Joe is Back!
In this album he reintroduces us to his warm Stratocaster blues in gorgeous tracks: Ain't Going Down This Time and You're Gonna Look in Blues. In some ways these marked a new sound that he'd develop on subsequent albums - moving us closer to his use of Spanish guitar.
And while he gives us several top swampy blues workouts on tracks like Biyo Rhythm and Love MD ("I need a love doctor," he wails) Tony Joe White also returns us to the world view he shared in his earlier, still excellent album Home made Iceceam which featured gentle ecological laments in tracks like "Ol mother Earth."
Here, tracks such as the powerful "Other Side" written soon after the massacre of Tiannemen Square display his trademark sense of justice and his feelings towards poverty and racism - and on recent listening I was surprised how the track still resonates strongly in the wake of Katrina.
The title track, Closer To The Truth is a longer track, less overt in its politics and anthem-like in its arrangement: a reflection on a world gone to hell.
When the CD first appeared in 1991 it was a welcome return for Tony Joe White. It put the uncertainty of the 1980s, and his wrangles with various record companies behind him. Tony Joe White had refound his path of the decent groove - and this CD and the next two marked the new golden age of this superb talent.
Closer to the Truth is an essential addition for Tony Joe fans, and an excellent introduction if you don't know, yet, why so many of us fans would crawl over broken glass to hear him play live.Review by D. Stuart
Tony Joe White - Closer To The Truth (1991)
Tracklist:
01. Tunica Motel (04:22)
02. Ain't Going Down This Time (05:12)
03. Steamy Windows (04:01)
04. (You're Gonna Look) Good In Blues (05:16)
05. Love M.D. (03:42)
06. The Other Side (05:57)
07. Bi-Yo Rhythm (05:23)
08. Cool Town Woman (04:23)
09. Bare Necessities (03:52)
10. Undercover Agent For The Blues (04:51)
11. Main Squeeze (04:21)
12. Closer To The Truth (06:34)
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Tony Joe White - Closer To The Truth (1991)
Tony Joe White - Closer To The Truth (1991)
