The Muscle Shoals Sound "Polk Salad Annie" (Tony Joe White) SaRon Crenshaw Quartet @ Shanghai Jazz

[@jameslanclos568]

1969 was the year this song came out and I remember it well. It was always on the radio. I much prefer the original Tony Joe White "Polk Salad Annie" than the Elvis version. Being a native Louisianian, I love this song, it's like our state anthem !!!

[@GTX1123]

My wife loved eating freshly made vegetables - especially while she was battling cancer - a battle she lost 13 yrs ago. She would actually pick dandelions from our yard and make salads with them. Sometimes I would play this song on guitar and having no roots in the South like I do, she asked me what Polk Salad was. I pointed to it outside the window. So she grabbed a bunch of the leaves, blanched them several times and we ate polk salad w dinner that night.

[@mobileprofessional]

Thanks for sharing that story with us. 🙂 ... I'm Gene, the videographer who filmed Saron and his crew that evening at Shanghai Jazz. I'm grateful that this number was able to bring back this memory of your beloved wife.

[@knucklehead7456]

My Family survived the Depression on Polk Sallat. I often wondered how hungry you gotta be, to learn the hard way, that stuff will KILL ya if it ain't properly prepared 😢

[@GTX1123]

@@knucklehead7456 Yep. Polk Sallat and lard. My parents were both born during the Great Depression. While they were too young to remember it, my Mom remembers victory gardens during WW2. Everybody had one...

[@chuckjeffery944]

Great story and we appreciate you for sharing it. (So sorry your wife got out of here early)

[@kirkgibson9146]

i am sorry for your loss! I hope you have found some sort of solitude since your lost. Do you know who Ray Whylie Hubbard is and/or follow his music. me being from Texas, it is kind of gradfathered. Anyway, he wrote a follow up song to "Polk Salad Annie" called "Mother Blues" Hope you enjoy !!!!!

[@monyavanderburg-hall]

Down here in the Southern states. Blues, rock and roll boogie boogie, jazz, country, etc. You have to come here to ever understand where it really all began. 😅❤

[@alvinrodgers934]

I love blues. You really did justice to Tony Joe White’s song. I could listen to this All Day

[@rociovera7699]

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[@eugenehowat4505]

Good 🎶

[@pauln8913]

The band and all did good...Loved the piano player also

[@merstrand1]

Tony Joe White would have loved this ...

[@knucklehead7456]

He surely would 😉

[@georgiaantonopoulou3977]

Υπέροχη διασκευή και άψογη εκτέλεση. Έλληνας στο πιάνο, απίστευτο Καλημέρα σας από Ελλάδα, Σεπτέμβριος 2024

[@monyavanderburg-hall]

Down here in the Southern states. Blues, roc and roll boogie boogie, jazz, country, etc. You have to come here to ever understand where it really all began. 😅❤

[@williamm402]

Guys on fire on those keys 🎹 1:06

[@wendellburkhart8297]

Now that's what that song supposed to sound like and I've been scrolling through video after video trying to find the right one and I just did right here ! Bring it on home Brother.... This is the best cover I've found so far !

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Great version boys. That 335 sounds sweet.

[@ducati9982]

just an awesome bleeping rendition of Tony Joe White's original version...i can listen to this over and over and over...

[@honoriussoularians1887]

There was a time when the music mattered and the musicians were all brothers and sisters....

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@fernandoblueschannel]

great staff ..

[@martialduck0327]

22/06/2023. 1 an a passé et j'écoute encore admiratif, et en boucle, cette machine de guerre qui brille par sa force et sa cohesion, magnifique, j'adore

[@multikulti6173]

Best of "Polk Salad Annie" Versions.

[@40ounce58]

WOW! Love it!🎤🎼🎹🎸🥁.

[@CARNELIANTURQUOISE]

Best cover of this song!

[@smartbizwebmedia5922]

Agreed.

[@bobbysfolly]

Great cover ! Absolute toe tapping tune !

[@RobertVeasquez]

Tony White’s song has been a favorite of mine. I saw him play at the 1969 Texas International Music Festival, It just him and a drummer. Today I wondered who else might have covered this song. Well, this was a real treat. It’s a more bluesy version but just as good. ❤

[@davidreynolds4684]

Ol boys got a wail like Robert Cray. Very smoothe sound. That yamaha sounds great. Hard to beat boogie woogie comin from a grand piano.

[@terryallen9546]

That was very nice! I think the cameraman needs a special round of applause.

[@mobileprofessional]

Thanks Terry. I also recorded and mixed the audio. This number is one of my favorites 😎

[@mauriciocasella7449]

This is MUSIC....period.

[@Coincidence_Theorist]

Might pass on the period with my POL k salad.

[@fredpgeiser728]

Love this version. And the RIGHT guitar.

[@antonioplana5628]

Sin lugar a dudas la mejor versión de esta canción, un total disfrute no te cansas de escucharla

[@DanielC__]

Awesome groove

[@kathienordstrom4530]

Oh wow..can you get any more groovy and funky than that..love that small venue atmosphere..everybody's gotta sing man..lifts you up

[@seanbackus4300]

Great song, great version

[@regularguy8592]

I was born in a very small town not far from Florence called Red Bay ,Red Bay was soo small and poor they didn't have food stamps what we had was turnip greens and polk salad 😜😜

[@mobileprofessional]

"we did alright"

[@axeist92126]

Best cover! Fun song to play.

[@arthurblackhistoric]

That Gibson sounds fantastic!

[@patriciasandlin5352]

Best I’ve heard!

[@frankwedekind1447]

Excellent !

[@Kouinia]

this is..... breathtaking

[@PhilloTBillo]

Too good and you know it

[@theelvisguru9490]

Wow! This is absolutely stunning!

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Nice groove boy's ☺️

[@davidwhite694]

Like that 50 or years I have been listening to Tony Joe want to sell him 19 times and concert it was my idol my father figure but he it was a awesome guy I met his two sons and his wife and one niece and one great niece they are two beautiful ladies but anyway I miss him

[@patryan8624]

Excellent. T.j.w is listening

[@DENNIS79111]

Great cover on this ... thanks

[@Coincidence_Theorist]

1:18 great cover job by the pienist’s Jacket. Left a little poke. A tribute to mister white.

[@tefenstrat]

This is very good - love it. As a guitar player myself who is still trying to make my band tighter...this a great example of a band that knows what they are doing. The drums and bass are "carrying the song along..the the piano joins in and makes it sound great and then all the guitar player has to do is lay back and throw in a few fun tasty fills....as it was once said - " and thats the way you do it"

[@jamescoughlan8193]

wow these guys are straight out of the fridge cool.

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@pedropalacios9977]

👍

[@jeremymay4331]

One word - smooth!

[@jeremymay4331]

Nailed it!!

[@Dr.Pepperdave]

I think you're right!

[@chickenparm6701]

This is fire!

[@beecee1235]

"Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!"... Is that all you got to say???? Ha Ha Ha :) You tell a great story in your music... Brilliant. Thanks...

[@gccooley]

Top notch recording, great sound.

[@smartbizwebmedia5922]

Thanks Gary. I really miss filming there. Dining has been outdoors over the summer b/c COVID, but they still have bands passing through this "jazz saloon."

[@pete379x5]

100% performance , nailed this song best version ever

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Shanghai Jazz (R) Restaurant & Jazz Club Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@johnkelly4943]

Pull up Tony Joe's version on Austin City Limits from 1970..that's my favorite straight from the guy who wrote it

[@melloyello4404]

On fire

[@dianewright5575]

OOOOMYGOSH! didn't think I could like the song more until I watched this 1!! Great job!

[@achimdux6006]

This is just great

[@stevesuv]

Great Groove!

[@kevin.afton_]

Awesome pianist.

[@joebarry4669]

We absolutely LOVE seeing Saron when we visit New York City at Terra Blues, in fact we plan our visit around his performance. He's fabulous!

[@johnwriterpoet1783]

Great song and great talent!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@jamesmeakin7673]

Had the pleasure to hear and meet SaRon at Terra Blues in Greenwich Village NYC a couple of years ago a fine performer and a gentleman hope to be back to see him again some fine day. Catch him if you can.

[@cwmoore1265]

Awesome job

[@knucklehead7456]

Now THATS how it's DONE muh Brutha 😎

[@pamelaferguson7766]

A poke is a bag of some kind. When we'd head south, and go to a store, they always asked you what kind of poke you wanted. My dad was from Tennessee and he would plant different kinds of greens, mustard, turnip, ect. In the back yard. When the greens got high, he'd go out and pick them for the dinner pot, after that he'd mow the back yard. He got himself "a mess of greens and put them in a paper poke". Hence, poke-salad.

[@smartbizwebmedia5922]

Thanks for that background info. I actually found a recipe for poke salad a couple months ago.

[@StefanGMeyer]

No. It's called poke salad because it's pokeweed. And it's not really salad, either. It's sallet, which refers to cooked greens. You can't eat pokeweed raw. You have to cook it.

[@pamelaferguson7766]

Stephan, I like my explanation better, it's more romantic. And yes, my mom would take the "mixed" greens from the poke and boil them down with bacon renderings and/or fat just like mustard greens. But I think my favourite was when Grandma would go down to the stream, pick a mess of watercress, look it, wash and dry it. Then cook bacon and pour the hot grease over it. She called it "killed lettuce". I love the way that different parts of the southern states leave a different heritage. I know my own people were Irish, Scottish, German, Dutch, and English and the tales differ by which side of the family you visited I hope this knowledge and the tales have been passed down are never lost.

[@rockets4kids]

Nope. It is a misspelling of "poke sallet" which fits with the rest of the lyrics.

[@ducati9982]

c just just an awesome redition of Polk Salad Annie...l

[@jp-lonewolf2609]

Superbe interprétation J'ADORE ,KOOL KOOL

[@TommyBackwater41]

Man that’s good

[@David-uq2uk]

Nice red Gibson Lucille .

[@keiranbradley3238]

Fine tone out that 355!.

[@kurtrypar5062]

Wow an amazing version of this piece of art! Thank's guy's 🎶👍

[@TheWesternunionman]

as a retired mixer one dreams of a band this good turning up to the gig...everyone knows how it fits together tight but loose and no one over plays...and a groove yeah baby yeah

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@jamr2311]

Great Great Great sound and played so great!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@drudd10]

smooth... I love Tony, Joe White, and the original, but this is solid

[@capiseric]

I finally saw Tony Joe White 2 years ago. This is a good version.

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@michaelalpin6139]

Fantastic!

[@barbaravanwhy4564]

I'm grooving

[@davidscott41]

Amazing

[@riproarin1042]

this music chugs like a locomotive cruisin through the mountain passes.

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@smartbizwebmedia5922]

It turns into polk salad heist music at the end of his tale.

[@mattswanson6932]

I saw Tony Joe White when he was opening and doing some dates with Waylon in the early 80's. Long live the King of Swamp Rock. See Tony Joe White in 2014 on the David Lettermen show with the late night band and The Foo Fighters performing "Polk Salad"... and I saw Elvis perform this song several times in Chicago in the 70's.

[@jckrwlnd]

Dewds!! Love This!!!

[@roustabout583]

What an excellent fun version guys!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@melloyello4404]

This catz got it

[@troybradley1927]

Your groove is deep!.... Well played

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@dennisthatcher5167]

AWESOME !!!!!!

[@vikingblood0408]

I'm all POLKed out! Great version!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@bigboreharley]

yes

[@TheShadow-n8k]

Really nice...

[@davidstobie2751]

Love the bar. I wish I was playing drums.

[@MrKeeft1]

VERY VERY GOOD.....its not difficult but.....takes characters..

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@MrKeeft1]

@@ShanghaiJazzVideos When its good, its a pleasure to share, I know many musos, I am now an `immobile` muso who will promote anything I like..so much talent..thanks to KZbin..be semi lost without it,,

[@presleylove8349]

Adoro esta música!!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷Brasil

[@nevilleherd4334]

First of all RIP tjw now he’s saying not bad I like it .

[@fethiisri2064]

Merci beaucoup pour votre façon d'enseigner rapidement votre expérience. Pratiquement réussi pour moi. Très bonne continuation

[@brendaLeegolden]

This ROCKS!!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@lawrenceklein4918]

Cookin'!!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@Pontan145]

Amazing!

[@daveberswick5372]

Say it ain't so Ron say it ain't so.

[@saradaulong859]

That's tight y'all. Niceeeee

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@jeffturbot3594]

Was at FAME studios last April. If'n ya likes music, best go visit Muscle Shoals!!!! You's be glads ya did!!

[@billyhanback2973]

Muscle Shoals is home for me. 58 years here...

[@billybobroyale]

Class!!!

[@annhitchcock3093]

Oh yes!! Probably the best version I’ve ever heard!!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@jeffturbot3594]

If you want some American music history, go to Muscle Shoals Alabama and tour FAME studios, you won't regret it!!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Agreed. They did some marvelous work in that studio (www.muscleshoalsthemovie.com/). Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@robertoponce8077]

Excelente Anita la ensalada Polk ❤

[@tedhobbs2699]

Shanghai Jazz (R) Restaurant & Jazz Club , located in Madison , New Jersey. What a tough sound !

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

RIP -- Rick Hall (January, 2018) -- Founder of Fame Studios, Muscle Shoals, AL...

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

Epitomises this sound of Tony Joe White

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

Shanghai Jazz Restaurant and Bar, Madison, New Jersey, East Coast, USA... No wonder that Elvis Presley loved this song!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@nevilleherd4334]

Shanghai Jazz (R) Restaurant & Jazz Club your music it so beautiful thx boys tjw would love it

[@АлександрПанов-б8ж]

Просто завидую этому исполнителю, какая свобода, какая уверенность и какое чудесное исполнение - по-моему здесь Пресли ему проигрывает, хотя Пресли исполняет эту песню очень оригинально ! Спасибо всем !

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Thanks for sharing our love of music at Shanghai Jazz. It means the world to us!

[@ganeshirodi7517]

This was by chance ,I am hooked to it ....Was actually watching Ford v Ferrari and happen to listen to Polk Salad Annie by James Burton .....I never stopped.... kept searching for different version ...this is just cool

[@warrenwhite8155]

I like the original best , Tony Joe white , cannot be beat! .........elvis version rocks too .

[@mobileprofessional]

It's like lightning in a bottle.