BLACK & WHITE 7/15/1997 this 33-track compilation happily hopscotches

this 33-track compilation happily hopscotches through the years

Recording information: Axis Recording

Tension and release

" but it's cut and twisted so only Hag fans could recognize its tell-tale twang

and "The House I Live In" -- which is buried pretty deeply on most hits compilations -- is given almost a place of honor here as the seventh song on Disc One

BLACK & WHITE 7/15/1997 this 33-track compilation happily hopscotchesWhen "Polk Salad Annie" blared from transistor radio speakers in the summer of 1969, the first thought was of Creedence Clearwater Revival, for Tony Joe White's swamp rock bore more than a passing resemblance to the sound John Fogerty whipped up on Bayou Country and Green River. But White was the real thing he really was from the bayou country of Louisiana, while Fogerty's bayou country was conjured up in Berkeley, CA. Plus, White had a mellow