Tony Joe White - The Train I'm On (1972)

Tracklist

01. I've Got a Thing About You Baby (Album Version)
02. The Family
03. If I Ever Saw a Good Thing (Album Version)
04. Beouf River Road
05. The Train I'm On (Album Version)
06. Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll (Album Version)
07. As the Crow Flies (Album Version)
08. Take Time to Love
09. 300 Pounds of Hongry
10. The Migrant (Album Version)
11. Sidewalk Hobo
12. The Gospel Singer

This album was Tony Joe White's second for Warner Brothers, produced by Tom Dowd & Jerry Wexler at Muscle Shoals Sound, Alabama and featuring the legendary 'Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section'. 'The Train I'm On' is a stone classic. This is one of "The Swamp Fox" better albums. There's a great deal of stylistic variety at work in the songs. More acoustic guitars than electric and there's not a note out of place in any of the playing or the deft arrangements. From the opener "I've Got A Thing About You Baby" that bounces joyfully with the anticipation of a new romance to "Beouf River Road" which has lively percussion including a Jew's harp that throbs like a swamp frog to "The Migrant" and the lovely ballad "The Gospel Singer."

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