TONY JOE WHITE – HOME MADE ICE CREAM LP – Nr MINT- A1/B1 UK 1973

Tony Joe White – Home Made Ice Cream
(Warner Bros Records  1973   K46229)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
– a few light marks

Vinyl in Nr MINT- condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from a light click at the start of side 2 in the first verse)

Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox,was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit “Polk Salad Annie” and for “Rainy Night in Georgia”, which he wrote but which was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970. He also wrote “Steamy Windows” and “Undercover Agent for the Blues”, both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner’s producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who was a friend of White’s. “Polk Salad Annie” was also recorded by Joe Dassin, Elvis Presley, Joe Bonamassa and Tom Jones.

Homemade Ice Cream is the sixth album released by Tony Joe White, and the third he released for Warner Brothers. It was produced by White and Tom Dowd.

All tracks composed by Tony Joe White

Side one

1. “Saturday Nite, In Oak Grove, Louisiana” 2:13
2. “For Ol’ Times Sake” 3:47
3. “I Want Love (‘Tween You and Me)” 2:42
4. “Homemade Ice Cream” 3:12
5. “Ol’ Mother Earth” 3:07

Side two

1. “Lazy” 3:48
2. “California on My Mind” 3:44
3. “Backwoods Preacher Man” 2:47
4. “Takin’ the Midnight Train” 4:06
5. “No News Is Good News” 3:02
6. “Did Somebody Make a Fool out of You” 4:15

• Tony Joe White – lead vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Reggie Young – guitar
• David Briggs – piano, organ
• Norbert Putnam – bass
• Kenny Malone – drums