{"id":4782,"date":"2021-05-14T09:12:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T08:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2021-05-14T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T08:18:08","slug":"jody-white-and-dan-auerbach-discuss-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=4782","title":{"rendered":"Jody White and Dan Auerbach discuss the making of the posthumous Tony Joe White new album"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an exclusive teaser for our cover feature on the late, great TONY JOE WHITE, the Swamp Fox<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s son and manager Jody White and producer and Black Keys lynchpin Dan Auerbach talk to MARTIN RUDDOCK about the new album Smoke From The Chimney<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nJody White<\/b>: <\/span>My Dad wasn<\/span>\u2019<\/span>t really a guy to be like <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Oh yeah I<\/span>\u2019<\/span>m gonna make a record,<\/span>\u201d <\/span>he was just like <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Here<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s a song I wrote and I want the band to come into my studio, and we<\/span>\u2019<\/span>re gonna play it, and once we get it right the first time, that<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s the take we<\/span>\u2019<\/span>re using, then we move on to something else.<\/span>\u201d <\/span>That<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s just how he rolled, that<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s what he did. After he passed away, I managed him for like 20 years, my job changed. It was no longer what are we going to do next, but what did you leave behind?<\/span> A big part of my job right now is transferring these reel to reels. We don<\/span>\u2019<\/span>t know what<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s on them. Some of them are clearly labelled and from a recording studio, we<\/span>\u2019<\/span>re finding lots of lost tracks and songs people have never heard. A lot of the stuff I<\/span>\u2019<\/span>m finding is because my <\/span>Dad<\/span> was always a home studio guy. Even in the \u201970s when he started playing sessions he started bringing reels home from those. He saved everything. There were sessions that were off the cuff, never part of Warner Brothers. He didn<\/span>\u2019<\/span>t have a record deal from like 1978 until like <\/span>\u2019<\/span>92, and that whole time he was in his home studio making music. He didn<\/span>\u2019<\/span>t stop making music but the \u201980s wasn<\/span>\u2019<\/span>t really a time for him to be releasing music. <\/span>I started the process of going through the storage unit, pulling out all the old reel to reels, organising photos and just creating a Tony Joe White library.<\/span> I found a reel from when he was in Corpus Christi, Texas, before <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Polk Salad Annie<\/span>\u2019<\/span>, before all that. The first songs he<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s ever written that have never even been registered, much less heard. It<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s really exciting, it<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s just like a treasure chest of Tony Joe White gold coins.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dan Auerbach<\/b>: He started going through those tapes and unearthing all kind of things, photographs that nobody had ever seen\u2026\u00a0<\/span>so awesome. So cool, Jody<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s doing his <\/span>Dad<\/span> right, keeping his legacy going in a real positive way. Telling the story right. He was always a great manager for his <\/span>Dad<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n