“She had disco sucks on the front of her t-shirt, a longneck bud in her hand…” So sings Tony Joe White on “Redneck Women,” courtesy of his eighth long-player, 1980’s The Real Thang. Core purveyor of the swamp rock amalgam alongside Bobby Charles, Lonnie Mack, Dale Hawkins, and Link Wray, White dropped this eight track album on Casablanca Records at the dawn of a new decade. Disco may have been in the ether, but this is swamp music mutating in real time . . .
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