{"id":50256,"date":"2025-10-28T13:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/tony-joe-white-played-with-foo-fighters-was-covered-by-elvis\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:58:48","slug":"tony-joe-white-played-with-foo-fighters-was-covered-by-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/tony-joe-white-played-with-foo-fighters-was-covered-by-elvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Joe White Played With Foo Fighters, Was Covered by Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tBack on Halloween 2014, Tony Joe White<\/a> sat in with the Foo Fighters<\/a> to play his signature song \u201cPolk Salad Annie\u201d on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium, the onetime home of the Grand Ole Opry. Ironically, White \u2014 the country-funk singer and guitarist known as the \u201cSwamp Fox\u201d \u2014 had yet to appear on the Opry. That honor would come about four years later when he made his Opry debut on the same day he released Bad Mouthin\u2019,<\/em> his album of country blues.<\/p>\n

\n\tBad Mouthin\u2019 <\/em>would be White\u2019s final album, and the Opry performance would be his last live show. He died<\/a> less than a month later, on Oct. 24, at 75.<\/p>\n

\n\tToday, White remains revered by a select group of music fans in the know, but it\u2019s a segment that the singer\u2019s son, Jody White, is determined to grow. This month, Jody oversaw a rerelease of The Real Thang<\/em>, his dad\u2019s 1980 album that featured songs like \u201cGood-bye L.A.\u201d and \u201cCowboy Singer.\u201d And there\u2019s more on the way.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cEverything that we put out is just another chapter of me spending more time understanding who he was during a certain period of life,\u201d Jody White tells Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cWhen we worked together, he was like, \u2018Jody, [music] is the most freedom I have ever had in my life. I know I can just make music and you\u2019ll take care of the rest.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEven if The Real Thang<\/em> didn\u2019t land as an immediate hit upon its initial release, the album has become a cult classic of sound and scope \u2014 all of it powered by White\u2019s notoriously gravelly rasp, his unique approach to the guitar, and plainspoken songwriting.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHe had so much soul, emotion, and feeling,\u201d Jody says. \u201cHe was able to put that into words in a way that nobody else could.\u201d<\/p>\n

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