This came out in 2004 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Remember Tony Joe White? Come on, sure you do — he wrote Polk Salad Annie (“The gators got your granny … chomp, chomp”).
OK, maybe you don’t recall Tony Joe. But Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Shelby Lynne, Michelle Wright and Jessi Colter haven’t forgotten the old Swamp Fox. Hence the title to the 61-year-old singer-guitarist’s thirtysomethingth disc The Heroines. As Tony Joe delivers his usual smouldering swamp-blues grooves and tangy bayou licks, the ladies come in single-file to wrap their dulcet tones — or in Lucinda’s case, her sultry trailer-trash moan — around his dusky drawl. Granted, they only show up for a handful of these dozen slow-burning roots cuts. But their combined presence is more than enough to make this one of White’s more memorable outings.
