Tony Joe White Died in 2018. His Legacy Involves … a New Album | By Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone | Back on Halloween 2014, Tony Joe White sat in with the Foo Fighters to play his signature song “Polk Salad Annie” on the stage of the Ryman Auditorium, the onetime home of the Grand Ole Opry. Ironically, White – the country-funk singer and guitarist known as the “Swamp Fox” – had yet to appear on the Opry. That honor would come about four years later when he made his Opry debut on the same day he released Bad Mouthin’, his album of country blues.
Bad Mouthin’ would be White’s final album, and the Opry performance would be his last live show. He died less than a month later, on Oct. 24, at 75.
Today, White remains revered by a select group of music fans in the know, but it’s a segment that the singer’s son, Jody White, is determined to grow. This month, Jody oversaw a rerelease of The Real Thang, his dad’s 1980 album that featured songs like “Good-bye L.A.” and “Cowboy Singer.” And there’s more on the way.
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Max Martin is the Mastermind Behind Some of Pop’s Greatest Hits. Here are Songs You May Not Know He Wrote
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Max Martin, a Swedish producer and songwriter, is the mastermind behind numerous mega-hit pop songs. He’s won five Grammys for songs including “Since U Been Gone” and “Can’t Stop The Feeling.” Taylor Swift worked with Martin on her new album, “The Life of a Showgirl.”
Max Martin was once a mysterious force behind the world’s biggest pop music hits.
Martin, whose real name is Karl Martin Sandberg, has been writing and producing songs since the ’90s, but music fans now recognize his name as a standard part of the pop zeitgeist.
Some of his biggest hits almost wound up in the hands of other stars — TLC was offered “…Baby One More Time” before Britney Spears. But no matter which pop artist ends up taking on the track, Martin’s work has a huge success rate, with a total of five Grammy awards from 25 nominations.
Taylor Swift enlisted the help of Martin and Karl “Shellback” Schuster for her latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl.” They previously collaborated on her mega-hits such as “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” “Shake It Off,” “Blank Space,” and “Delicate.”
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