By all accounts, these sessions were a three-day, around-the-clock party, which not only reunited the original MGs (Steve Cropper, Donald 'Duck' Dunn and Al Jackson, Jr. In late September 1973, White was recruited by record producer Huey Meaux to sit in on the legendary Memphis sessions that became Jerry Lee Lewis's landmark Southern Roots album. White played and sang four and composed seven songs for the musical. In 1973, White appeared in the film Catch My Soul, a rock-opera adaption of Shakespeare's Othello. Three more singles quickly followed, all minor hits, and White toured with Steppenwolf, Anne Murray, Sly & the Family Stone, Creedence Clearwater Revival and other major rock acts of the 1970s, playing in France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden and England. 'Willie and Laura Mae Jones' was covered by Dusty Springfield on her album Dusty in Memphis also recorded in 1969. White's first album, 1969's Black and White, was recorded with Muscle Shoals/Nashville musicians David Briggs, Norbert Putnam, and Jerry Carrigan, and featured 'Willie and Laura Mae Jones' and 'Polk Salad Annie', along with a cover of Jimmy Webb's 'Wichita Lineman'. It climbed to the Top Ten by early August, and eventually reached No. 'Polk Salad Annie' had been released for nine months and written off as a failure by his record label, when it finally entered the U.S. Over the next three years, White released four singles with no commercial success in the U.S., although 'Soul Francisco' was a hit in France. In 1967, White signed with Monument Records, which operated from a recording studio in the Nashville suburb of Hendersonville, Tennessee, and produced a variety of sounds, including rock and roll, country and western, and rhythm and blues. He first began performing music at school dances, and after graduating from high school he performed in night clubs in Texas and Louisiana. Tony Joe White was the youngest of seven children who grew up on a cotton farm near Oak Grove, Louisiana. 'Polk Salad Annie' was also recorded by Elvis Presley and Tom Jones. 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 is a friend of White.

Tony Joe White (Oak Grove, Louisiana, JOctober 24, 2018) was an American swamp rock singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his 1969 hit 'Polk Salad Annie' and for 'Rainy Night in Georgia', which he wrote but was first made popular by Brook Benton in 1970.

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