Tony Joe White Net Worth: Age, Height, Weight, Bio

Tony Joe White Net Worth

How rich is Tony Joe White? For this question we spent 21 hours on research (Wikipedia, Youtube, we read books in libraries, etc) to review the post.

The main source of income: Musicians
Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $65 Million.

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Biography

Tony Joe White information Birth date: July 23, 1943 Birth place: Oak Grove, Louisiana, USA Profession:Soundtrack, Composer, Actor

Height, Weight:

How tall is Tony Joe White – 1,69m.
How much weight is Tony Joe White – 73kg

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Biography,Tony Joe White was the youngest of seven children who grew up on a cotton farm near Oak Grove, Louisiana. He first began performing music at school dances, and after graduating from high school he performed in night clubs in Texas and Louisiana.1960s–1970sIn 1967, White signed with Monument Records, which operated from a recording studio in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville, Tennessee, and produced a variety of sounds, including rock and roll, country and western, and rhythm and blues. Billy Swan was his producer.Over the next three years, White released four singles with no commercial success in the U.S., although Soul Francisco was a hit in France. Polk Salad Annie had been released for nine months and written off as a failure by his record label, when it finally entered the U.S. charts in July 1969. It climbed to the Top Ten by early August, and eventually reached No. 8, becoming Whites biggest hit.Whites first album, 1969s Black and White, was recorded with Muscle Shoals/Nashville musicians David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan, and featured Willie and Laura Mae Jones and Polk Salad Annie, along with covers of Jimmy Webbs Wichita Lineman. Willie and Laura Mae Jones was covered by Dusty Springfield on her album Dusty in Memphis also recorded in 1969.Three more singles quickly followed, all minor hits, and White toured with Steppenwolf, Anne Murray, Sly & the Family Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival and other major rock acts of the 1970s, playing in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and England.In 1973, White appeared in the film Catch My Soul, a rock-opera adaption of Shakespeares Othello. White played and sang four and composed seven songs for the musical.In late September 1973, White was recruited by record producer Huey Meaux to sit in on the legendary Memphis sessions that became Jerry Lee Lewiss landmark Southern Roots album.[citation needed] By all accounts,[citation needed] these sessions were a three-day, around-the-clock party, which not only reunited the original MGs (Steve Cropper, Donald Duck Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. of Booker T. and the MGs fame) for the first time in three years, but also featured Carl Perkins, Mark Lindsay (of Paul Revere & the Raiders), and Wayne Jackson plus The Memphis Horns.1980sFrom 1976 to 1983, White released three more albums, each on a different label. Trying to combine his own swamp-rock sound with the popular disco music at the time, the results were not met with success and White gave up his career as a singer and concentrated on writing songs.1990s comebackIn 1989, White produced one non-single track on Tina Turners Foreign Affair album, the rest of the album was produced by Dan Hartman. Playing a variety of instruments on the album, he also wrote four songs, including the title song and the hit single Steamy Windows. As a result of this he became managed by Roger Davies, who was Turners manager at the time, and he obtained a new contract with Polydor.The resulting album, 1991s Closer to the Truth, was a commercial success[citation needed] and put White back in the spotlight. He released two more albums for Polydor, The Path of a Decent Groove and Lake Placid Blues which was co-produced by Roger Davies.In the 1990s, White toured Germany and France with Joe Cocker and Eric Clapton, and in 1992 he played the Montreux Festival.In 1996, Tina Turner released the song On Silent Wings written by White.2000sIn 2000, Hip-O Records released One Hot July in the U.S., giving White his first new major-label domestic release in 17 years. The critically acclaimed The Beginning appeared on Swamp Records in 2001, followed by Heroines, featuring several duets with female vocalists including Jessi Colter, Shelby Lynne, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, and Michelle White, on Sanctuary in 2004, and a live Austin City Limits concert, Live from Austin, TX, on New West Records in 2006. In 2004, White was the featured guest artist in an episode of the Legends Rock TV Show and Concert Series, produced by Megabien Entertainment.In 2007, White released another live recording, Take Home the Swamp, as well as the compilation Introduction to Tony Joe White. Elkie Brooks recorded one of Whites songs, Out of The Rain, on her 2005 Electric Lady album. On July 14, 2006, in Magny-Cours, France, White performed as a warm-up act for Roger Waters The Dark Side of the Moon concert. Whites album, entitled Uncovered, was released in September 2006 and featured collaborations with Mark Knopfler, Michael McDonald, Eric Clapton, and J.J. Cale.The song Elements and Things from the 1969 album …Continued features prominently during the horse-racing scenes in the 2012 HBO television series Luck.In 2013, White signed to Yep Roc Records and released Hoodoo. Mother Jones called the album “Steamy, Irresistible” and No Depression noted Tony Joe White is “the real king of the swamp.” He also made his Live…With Jools Holland debut in London, playing songs from Hoodoo.On October 15, 2014, White appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman alongside the Foo Fighters to perform Polk Salad Annie. Pointing to White, Letterman told his TV audience, Holy cow! … If I was this guy, you could all kiss my ass. And I mean that.In May 2016, Tony Joe White released Rain Crow on Yep Roc Records. The lead track Hoochie Woman was cowritten with his wife, Leann. The track Conjure Child is a follow up to an earlier song, Conjure Woman.

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