The reissue expands the original 8-track album to 20 tracks in total, including never-before-heard material discovered in White’s personal archives after his death in 2018.
Forty-five years ago, Tony Joe White released an album of what he called “swamp rock” (an amalgam of southern rock, country and blues roots music), and he called it The Real Thang. It was only released on vinyl, it only had eight tracks, and it was not very successful in terms of sales; in fact, it did not gain much attention at all. It was perhaps because White, after some success with well-balanced country blues albums in the ’70s (Homemade Ice Cream, for example), decided to ramp up his songs with a disco beat (that was pretty popular at the time), overlaying…

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