Tony Joe White - Train I'M On

This album was Tony Joe White's second for Warner Brothers, produced by Tom Dowd & Jerry Wexler at Muscle Shoals Sound, Alabama and featuring the legendary 'Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section'. 'The Train I'm On' is a stone classic. This is one of The Swamp Fox better albums. There's a great deal of stylistic variety at work in the songs. More acoustic guitars than electric and there's not a note out of place in any of the playing or the deft arrangements. From the opener I've Got A Thing About You Baby that bounces joyfully with the anticipation of a new romance to Beouf River Road which has lively percussion including a Jew's harp that throbs like a swamp frog to The Migrant and the lovely ballad The Gospel Singer.