What It Is – Is Swamp Music – Is What It Is
Overview by Jerry Wexler, Billboard, December 1969
AT DRUMMER Sammy Creason’s Halloween party in Memphis, his new boss, singer Tony Joe White, holds his breath to close his pores, removes a black widow ...

Tony Joe White: Home Made Ice Cream
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1973
I'VE HAD a healthy respect for the work of Tony Joe White for quite some time now, and it is because of the excellence of his ...

Tony Joe White: Homemade Ice Cream
Review by John Pidgeon, Let It Rock, October 1973
TONY JOE WHITE just loves to play the ingenu. The sleeve of Homemade Ice Cream has photographs of him "up at Turkey Creek" and titles and ...

John Fogerty: John Fogerty
Review by Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, October 1975
JOHN FOGERTY singlehandedly prepares records that are virtually perfect in execution as well as conception: brilliantly concise self-expression, captivating and broad-based radio music. Though he alone, ...

Delbert McClinton: Love Rustler
Review by Paul Rambali, NME, May 1977
IN THE grand tradition of Elvis and Tony Joe White this is white, southern r'n'b. ...

Swamp Rock: Local heroes who rocked the everglades
Overview by Bill Millar, The History of Rock, 1983
Four hundred miles of US highway run between Port Arthur, Texas in the West and New Orleans, Louisiana in the East. On either side of it ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Bayou Country/Green River/Willy and the Poorboys/Cosmo's Factory and more
Review by Andy Gill, NME, October 1984
ANCIENT BEAT journalist and hippie doyen Ralph J. Gleason, who could be a daft old coot at the best of times, got it completely wrong in ...

Tony Joe White: Highway Blues
Report and Interview by Chris Bourke, Rip It Up (New Zealand), November 1993
AS YOU DRIVE south out of Memphis down Highway 61, the trees and houses stop at the edge of the city limits. On either side of ...

Hoodoo Man: Mac Rebennack
Interview by Hank Bordowitz, Jazziz, July 1994
MAC REBENNACK'S music continues a 40 year long mardi gras of the mind, a sound that never gets old, never gets ...

“I Was the Leader Already": Creedence's Beginnings
Book Excerpt by Hank Bordowitz, Schirmer Books, 1998
IN 1958 ROCK music had passed its infancy -- it was more like a toddler -- but it still was not reputable. Not many high schools ...

Bobby Charles: Wish You Were Here
Sleevenotes by Colin Escott, Stony Plain Records, 2001
IT'S BOBBY CHARLES'S personal preference to maintain a low profile. He has famous friends who get twitchy when they're out of the limelight for so ...