Although he never really broke through commercially in Louisiana is coming singer / songwriter and guitarist Tony Joe White musicians in the world and by blues aficionados labeled the "King of Swamp Rock '. His songs were mainly known in versions of others, in the late sixties and early seventies, as Willie And Laura Mae Jones by Dusty Springfield and Polk Salad Annie by Elvis Presley. With his
… lazy, dark velvet voice and rootsy guitar playing he kept himself an artist who is particularly admired by colleagues and Lucinda Williams, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and Bonnie Riatt be counted among his fans.more
