Tony Joe White - Tunica Motel
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- Tunica Motel is a fine example of swamp blues, the trademark of Tony Joe White. It's from "10 jaar het beste uit 2 meter sessies" (Varagram 1997). I've you want to buy this album: bit.ly/190Mjmz. 2 meter sessies, a dutch radioprogram by Jan Douwe Kroeske, asked musicans to perform an unplugged version of one of their songs.
Tony Joe White chose Tunica Motel, a song about a man who escapes the city, drives to Memphis to find his tranquillity in a motel which bears the same name as the song. At daytime he finds his comfort and rest but at nights he is haunted by regret and thoughts about the founding father of the blues Robert Johnson and his reason to sing. He reputedly sold his soul to the devil at the crossroads.
Will he ever sleep? Can he resist the alluring Crossroads? Will he walk the path of virtue or will he go astray and fall into evil ways? Tony Joe White puts us at the Crossroads with Tunica Motel and whilst playing his gritty, dirty and muggy blues, he's waiting for answers. So do I.
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Very underrated talent. Rest in Peace Tony Joe.
Damn I miss TJW. He was truly an American Treasure. RIP Swamp Fox
Monday looked like a downer
Tuesday looked like rain
A bad altitude
And I knew I needed a change
Head out on the highway
Cruising way down south
I knew a little place
Where I might could work it all out
I'm so tired of fighting with myself
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel
Just outside of Memphis, Highway 61
Sleepy little town down by the Mississippi river
I'm gonna layout on a houseboat
Until my hide turn brown
Ain't gonna move 'till the evening sun goes down
Fried chicken to go
And they got live bait for sale
Anything you need at the Tunica motel
I find myself at midnight
Moving to the back porch blues
The guitar cries, telling me about the hard times
Something moves in the shadows
Giving me a little chill
I thought I saw Robert Johnson
Walking out across the field
There ain't hardly nobody
Left who even knows the tale
Gimme the blues at the Tunica motel.
Love Tony Joe White's voice, he's got the Blues ♡♡♡♡
they call it sugar ditch one of the poorest places in the country. If u play the blues you've got to pay the dues.Thx TJW
R.I.P. Thank you for the music .
TJW was the Man
The Real Deal
Thanks for the music & the memories
tjw should be as big as the beatles. heck at least as big as the rolling stones.thats so good he is.
He's bigger than the Beatles in my book, guarantee any of the fab four would envy Tony's talent..... and had it not been for the blues, there would be no British R&R....
Great song and selection of pictures is great!!
2023 and this is still bad ass
RIP TJ
You are missed much
Nothing but Respect
😞
Hello Hans ,Thx.u, Good Time for you, I like very much your post MUSIC, Thx.u.
It doesn't get any better...RIP Tony.
Tunica... up 61 from my hometown of Clarksdale....where the infamous crossroads (highways 49 and 61) are.
Prachtige uitvoering van een prachtig nummer. En erg gave en smaakvolle video heb je ervan gemaakt!
Ik kwam deze live uitvoering ook nog tegen van dit nummer.
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We zijn trouwens een Tony Joe White Tribute aan het opzetten onder de naam Swamp Fox (Band).
great version of a great song
I was in Tunica yesterday... Still a sleepy little town as long as you don't go about 12 miles north! Had a friend that retired to Tunica so he could be close to the casinos. Eat the buffets and drink the free booze! He died last year... Not a bad place to die, quiet and slow. Better there than Memphis or Atlanta or some other rat race town.
Hi mouse man, here we are 5 years up, after the flood of '11, the crash of '08, Memphis rated the best place to save a dollar, by Consumer Magazine, yet never much been there, only flew in drove out on my way to Tunica. Sure do miss Nashville, yet to be sure, the town has needs, if the willing are able, then we can turn the tables, so to speak, one of the worst of the poverty ratings also, Tunica, has auspicious amounts of casinos, haha, and the mighty river flows, the barges keep the consumer in supply, the river lives much better than we can justify, considering all what we done to it. I was at the Fitz, a little TLC and you'd be happier with the region. It suffers a despair, thick as oil it stains the air, yet I do love the region, the folks there, very kind for just a joke and a smile, Atlanta, is a fine town too, such an efficient airport as it is known for, when I visit Atlanta, the 'burbs of it, what is it- Murietta, just calm and green yet the best (& I know from Europe to NYC, to growing up in "Little Italy" that the best...) Veal Parm I ever had was in the Airport Hilton, I was late and had a few good jokes, after a client gave his whole pitch in the car ride, late, and closing meant I had nothing to eat, so my buddy Jose, was drinking Dewars and dropping big tips, asking them to wait, and they said I had a great friend, yet so obnoxious, they said, laughing, "so Texas-ass" and it was the very best veal parm I've ever had, they served me a huge portion as they closed, refused my money, refused my tip, (I left the cook and the gorgeous waitress very huge tips through the mischief with the Concierge, see it was late, I don't pay for company, and yet with Southern Hospitality, she did not let me sleep alone. Later I learned that Cookie was not the concierge at all, yet she did make a point to pay the restaurant, all the tip, so much kindness). So I had great tales of Atlanta, except the client wore a big rubber nose and floppy shoes, so business was at a loss... and Memphis I dunno, yet Tunica needs a tune up. I am working with a group that may just belly up to the bar and make a major play. So far, it has been a struggle. People do not take this all so seriously as it is. The buffets are awful I starved the best being a chicken drive through and not Popeye's, (GOTTA LOVE POPEYE'S CHICKEN, try the rice and beans with gravy, good stuff, they got to nicknaming me the Gravy Man up in the Food Courts, and Concord; love my Popeye's & yet none in Tunica, Mississippi or Tennessee for me, and no sushi, only that ill smelling buffet, even the roadkill stew had live eyes and the lemon catfish were baiting the toothless, food that fights back, food that still bites back, sharpen the forks, if it moves stab it, if it lives -kill it and my X used to say, "go be with your Freckles and Bambis, just bring 'em home so I can kill 'em, cook 'em, eat 'em she's dangerous according to the court, has to stay 1,000 miles away, truly an indication; and I gotta say, so many good folks, just plain folks, and a dreamer with a cool vision, if we can put the right numbers by it, this region will have a positive change.) I don't gamble, yet when my clients own casinos, they are prone to force a chip or 3 on me, and I have gambled 3 times and won 3 times, $13.50 on the horsies (I hava a system- chaos) and then $42- on the one armed bandit in Tahoe, I was in a body cast and hanging out alone, while my brother went to ski, so I immediately went over to the Ponderosa, rented a ski mobile, Vrooom, crash, crawling out of the wreckage, I lost the path, when they saw I was in the body cast, they gave me back my money so I got $42- worth of munchies, frothy stout, some suspect company, her name was Alice and she had malice in her p-p-palace, uh- and really stoned, and I won $30,000- on my second honey moon at Bellagio. We had business eating caviar, woulda cost us a month's rent and my real intense intent, to wrap up bz and go with my leggy honey to our Nobu's feast, where the give me the large wooden boat of sushi, sashimi and every trimming you can imagine, tobiko and when I dropped my chopstick, my honey was in a short mini-mini-micro-mini dress, commando, handy and all set up to trick and trap me. In fact, so you know the code, the name of Loudermilk when combined with a hyphen and any first name begins with "S" means you just ordered a very expensive uh-specialist, which as I said , i don't do, yet my then-honey surprised me, and all that money, it had no impact compared to the indignities and abuses my husbandry vows and duties compelled me to only try so hard to resist. That was a loss, when she went back to her brothel, leaving our son, our cat (Gato Diablo, the carpet shark) and me, perplexed, in total chaos, and so much more happy for it, the surreal takes no impact away, SO a free man I am and in Tunica, there are many many sweet women, some working some wishing, cat -fishing, I could hang out there a few. Hoping to pump in some improvements and a better face for it, yet the photos in the video, really still perpetuate, was there a few weeks ago, and we have our motors running in this one- a live prospect and hope. With some TLC and some adwork, Tunica can become a whole different place. I am helping all I can and all I want is a Popeyes in the Memphis Airport, another on the way to Tunica, and another in the resort itself. When I asked for room service, she came naked in a robe. So I rented her car, and snuck out to drive through, 2 meals in the drive through, and I danced with Cheri, (her real name, I can only wonder, she don't know mine neither,) and we had fun, yet no fees were accepted, when the confusion was so funny, we ate chicken watched her computer to see RED SPARROW and we made our own atmosphere, shame is we would've spent a lot of money there. I also was taught to shoot craps and play 21, won $11 at the dice and $8- at cards, though I think my hosts were frustrated, at least it wasn't so bad as Bellagio. For any dollar I win, someone bets $1M more !!! Chrissie are you transcribing this ...honey stop your fun and come have some Wonton Soup, maybe we can go to Naka's next week! Mr. Naka, likes to shake his big knife and scream "Yabba-na!!!" and they give me a whole eel on my nigiri sushi, a whole darn eel!! Stop tapping keys, Chrissie, oh honey don't grab me there, wow, strong hands, hey stop tapping keys, damn broke my zipper, darling want to go with me and see Tunica, what? later, oh yeah, why are you... damn woman your nails are sharp! Don't, ok then...
Hey whew, that was, unusual, play Conjure Woman... stop tapping keys Chrissie! Cristina! Cristina Maria Augustanacio, ok then don't behave! You can tuna fish -you can't tune a cat and Chrissie, darling you are one sultry, playful dangerous cat, what video, dance, the Tunica shuffle, oh yeah baby I know that dance, layered me in layered me down, it is her playground, I'm just expensive equipment...
LANCELOT’S DILEMMA
She’s pretty and she’s mean,
And her sister Madeline-
Been on me like a hungry wolf;
Says I’m more fun than golf!
What does she mean:
“A hole in one.”
Anita; hot gal has this cousin,
Harmony’s her name,
Won’t be tamed, her wild soul!
She claims I’m her
…Totem pole.
What’s a po’ boy s’posed to do?
So I’m hiding here with you;
With a rack
Of Adam’s ribs,
Behind this barbeque!
Oh, yes…
I should introduce you too-
This here is Maddy’s gal pal, Sue!
Hey girl, this ain’t no joke!
Uh oh, my zipper’s broke.
I woke up in a pool chair,
What the fuck is goin’ on here!
My zipper’s stuck again,
Try and find some head above my brain.
Of all the public places,
To be jammed in Stacy’s braces!
Flock a starflocker, star;
Flock a star…
Keep the towel boy!
Throw me the Kevlar!
Flock a star, flocker, star…
Flock a star!
Throw me the flocking Kevlar!
~it begins again~
By RaVen DaWn ~in homage to Jagger’s Stones. Blame it on the Stones!
(Sorry I had to clean up RaVen's cuss words, my job is to transcribe everything he says, I have my fun. -Chriss)
This is me, really just me, and I'm really sorry about your friend, Tunica can be a place of rare peace. Have to see about the "12 Mile Factor". I heard this video less than 1/2 a year ago, then don't you know, a job takes me there. I had never heard of Tunica before. I like how the river is so powerful, and how it feels so calm. Be well, mouse man. ~RaVen~
mouse man retired from the mainland too Hawaii. Much nicer. Aloha Love from Hawaii. Dave
Robert Johnson was playing near Greenwood during the depression a harmless flirt he was enthralled with his friend a beauty who came to hear him play. Sonny Williamson who was with him said, friend your drinking to much. Naa ! So he continued to drink a large amount that night. Next day he fell ill and over the next three days he got worse finally going into convulsions. He stopped breathing & died. His symptoms were consistent with acute alcohol poisoning. The whiskey was moonshine.
Anthony
Giant Talent R.I.P..
a faultless compilation of pictures and music. Thanks for posting - RIP TJW
All praise to TJW!
nice pictures with a beautiful sound from the master thanks :)
Tunica motel que buen tema y que buen cantante me gusta mucho
Oh yeah, addicted listening
That was damn good 👍 Tony Joe white RIP...♡ ...that video montage was amazing i do subscribe to your vision oh ...and your channel
Zajefajnebiste !!!
Saving Abel 's
Mississippi Moonshine
on UTUBE...tells it all
Tony or Joe or White but not Sue !
Love Tony Joe White good music
Pure blues
Mooi Hans .... alles past. groet uit Indonesie.
I'm just getting back from a great trip. Thank You's. Yup.! G-G 😃😁😉🤩
I am 69 Why am I just discovering this genius now ?
The true roots
@JDoubleOP Txs for favouriting my video of Tony Joe White!
Some great images...Thanks
Got the CD, such a great version........TJW belongs to the greatest with his own unique style.......
What's the name of the CD and where did you get it? A great version from a great artist.
@@bsully3340 www.discogs.com/Various-Het-Beste-Uit-10-Jaar-2-Meter-Sessies/release/1092314 It's recorded for a dutch radio/tv show, a bit like MTV unplugged
Wow Tony you're super rythme blues star ..bless you tony
Its cool cantos ❤
Most beautiful version of this song ever - by himself...
Michael
💝😀 he// yeah!🎼🎸🎤
great photos, where are they from?
The one with the two boys fishing is from a Library of Congress collection of depression era pictures, which includes a large number of color pics too.
Such a story teller & musical talent!! 🥰🎸
Tony Joe at his best.
Very nice! Thanks.
Fine. - E
great - and catching the place
Nice!
Great harmonica player also
Great song
Great lyrics ,......need some Tunica Motel time now Tony Joe
2020.......think we all could use Tunica Motel bout right now
HOT !
Thankyou Hans. Tony Joe~Real & Peerless! R.I.P.
Thank you Dan - all praise to TJW
tune & vid,, tyvm
RIP....Miss Swamp Fox!