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

( ! ) World class music, warm hospitality and acclaimed food and service for the past 20 years! Shanghai Jazz has been named One of the Top 100 Great Jazz Clubs in the World. ** CLICK "SHOW MORE" TO LEARN ABOUT THESE ARTISTS **
SARON CRENSHAW (Guitar & Vocals) SaRon Crenshaw is an extremely talented guitarist who travels the country playing Jazz and Rhythm and Blues. In the 70's and 80's he made his living playing bass for several bands in New Jersey, New York and South Carolina. He has shared stages with talented recording artists such as Lee fields, Roy Roberts, Denise lasalle, Bobby Rush, Jessie James, Tyrone Davis, and Chuck Roberson. He performs intensely at the Blues venues and festivals in the east coast for the past decade and has a large following in the Tri-state area.
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GEORGE PAPAGEORGE (Piano) George Papageorge is a blues, jazz, funk and rock organist, keyboard player based in New York City. First acitve in the early 1990s, Papageorge toured, recorded, and co-wrote music for soul singer Mighty Sam McClain and soul-jazz guitar legend Melvin Sparks, among many others. Always delivering energetic performances both on stage and on over 25 recordings, Papageorge has supported the most soulful and driven artists as a sideman.
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JAMES ODUM (Bass) / SCOTT JORDAN (Drums)
COMPARE to Original Muscle Shoals Recording (1969)
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SHANGHAI JAZZ (Madison, New Jersey, USA)
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Shanghai Jazz was opened in summer of 1995 by David Niu and Martha Chang. While studying in a doctorate program, Martha did extensive research on 1920’s Shanghai. During that tumultuous period globally, Shanghai was a destination for those looking to escape the depression in America, the rise of fascism in Eastern Europe, the penal colonies in Australia, among many other difficult situations around the world at that time. With myriad different cultures flooding into the city, the cuisines evolved, a dark and violent vein sprouted, and an incredible music scene developed and jazz was the genre that kept folks swinging in the clubs!
With this as inspiration, Shanghai Jazz was born. David and Martha drove this unique concept for 22 years and counting, as one of the “Top 100 Jazz Clubs in the World” (Downbeat Magazine).
In the summer of 2017, Shanghai Jazz was passed on to Thomas Donohoe with a 29 year career in hospitality, 18 of those years he was a chef, leading award winning kitchens from New Jersey to Montana, Florida, and New York City. He trained with some of the best chefs in the world including Thomas Keller, at the French Laundry in Yountville, CA, Jonathan Waxman at Barbuto in NYC, and Bill Pete at Café des Artistes, also in NYC. Throughout his career, Tom has been focused on and committed to providing exquisite dining experiences to all his guests.
Now, Tom and Shanghai Jazz’s team of culinary and hospitality professionals carry on the tradition, driven by a collective passion to bring good people together with world-class live music, great food, and gracious hospitality to create an exceptionally fun dining experience.
VIDEO & AUDIO PRODUCTION
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PHOTO CREDITS
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Drummer by Tommaso Starace [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr
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[@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

[@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 !!!

[@merstrand1]

Tony Joe White would have loved this ...

[@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. 😅❤

[@pauln8913]

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

[@multikulti6173]

Best of "Polk Salad Annie" Versions.

[@williamm402]

Guys on fire on those keys 🎹 1:06

[@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 🎶

[@CARNELIANTURQUOISE]

Best cover of this song!

[@smartbizwebmedia5922]

Agreed.

[@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!

[@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. 😅❤

[@40ounce58]

WOW! Love it!🎤🎼🎹🎸🥁.

[@mauriciocasella7449]

This is MUSIC....period.

[@Coincidence_Theorist]

Might pass on the period with my POL k salad.

[@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.

[@arthurblackhistoric]

That Gibson sounds fantastic!

[@fernandoblueschannel]

great staff ..

[@antonioplana5628]

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

[@ducati9982]

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

[@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 😎

[@bobbysfolly]

Great cover ! Absolute toe tapping tune !

[@seanbackus4300]

Great song, great version

[@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 !

[@syn707]

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. ❤

[@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.

[@patryan8624]

Excellent. T.j.w is listening

[@ianandpeejisiderio5060]

Polk Sald!!! Elvis performed this in his concert! Amazing!!!

[@frankwedekind1447]

Excellent !

[@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"

[@ducati9982]

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

[@Kouinia]

this is..... breathtaking

[@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

[@jeremymay4331]

One word - smooth!

[@jeremymay4331]

Nailed it!!

[@Dr.Pepperdave]

I think you're right!

[@kevin.afton_]

Awesome pianist.

[@pete379x5]

100% performance , nailed this song best version ever

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

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[@johnkelly4943]

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

[@jamescoughlan8193]

wow these guys are straight out of the fridge cool.

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

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[@pedropalacios9977]

👍

[@bigboreharley]

yes

[@stevesuv]

Great Groove!

[@drudd10]

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

[@patriciasandlin5352]

Best I’ve heard!

[@chickenparm6701]

This is fire!

[@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]

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[@johnwriterpoet1783]

Great song and great talent!

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[@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

[@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.

[@melloyello4404]

On fire

[@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."

[@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!

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Nice groove boy's ☺️

[@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.

[@cwmoore1265]

Awesome job

[@capiseric]

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

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[@ozzie-sk9dh]

Great version boys. That 335 sounds sweet.

[@riproarin1042]

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

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[@smartbizwebmedia5922]

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

[@michaelalpin6139]

Fantastic!

[@achimdux6006]

This is just great

[@booblikon]

Damn that was good!

[@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.

[@kurtrypar5062]

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

[@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...

[@daveberswick5372]

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

[@jamr2311]

Great Great Great sound and played so great!

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[@user-nx6zj9nw1j]

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 !

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[@davidscott41]

Amazing

[@nevilleherd4334]

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

[@MrKeeft1]

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

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[@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,,

[@roustabout583]

What an excellent fun version guys!

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[@DanielC__]

Awesome groove

[@troybradley1927]

Your groove is deep!.... Well played

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[@dianewright5575]

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

[@dennisthatcher5167]

AWESOME !!!!!!

[@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 ❤

[@melloyello4404]

This catz got it

[@presleylove8349]

Adoro esta música!!🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷Brasil

[@brendaLeegolden]

This ROCKS!!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

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[@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.

[@tedhobbs2699]

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

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

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[@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!

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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

[@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...

[@SuperBeachbum74]

Tony joe and Elvis the only ones who do this song justice. Tony’s version is classic but Elvis brought the song to life ! This is ok , somewhat impressive

[@davidstobie2751]

Love the bar. I wish I was playing drums.

[@TheShadow-n8k]

Really nice...

[@lawrenceklein4918]

Cookin'!!

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[@barbaravanwhy4564]

I'm grooving

[@multikulti6173]

Exellent.!!!

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[@multikulti6173]

@@ShanghaiJazzVideos So high quality music. It should be much more rewarded.

[@jckrwlnd]

Dewds!! Love This!!!

[@saradaulong859]

That's tight y'all. Niceeeee

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[@shawnfields8390]

I like it

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[@papaldanondo]

Down in Louisiana, where the alligators grow so mean There lived a girl, that I swear to the world Made the alligators look tame Polk salad Annie, polk salad Annie Everybody said it was a shame Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang (A mean vicious woman). Everyday?for supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch And pick her a mess of polk salad, and carry it home in a tow sack Polk salad Annie, Polk salad Annie gators got your granny Everybody says it was a shame Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang (A wretched, spiteful, straight-razor totin' woman Lord have Mercy, pick a mess of it). Her daddy was lazy and no count, claimed he had a bad back All her brothers were fit for was stealin' watermelons Out of my truck patch Polk salad Annie, Polk salad Annie the gators got your granny Everybody said it was a shame Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang ... (Sock a little polk salad to me, you know I need me a mess of it) Everyday?for supper time, she'd go down by the truck patch And pick her a mess of polk salad, and carry it home in a tow sack Polk salad Annie, Polk salad Annie gators got your granny Everybody says it was a shame Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang ... Her daddy was lazy and no count, claimed he had a bad back All her brothers were fit for was stealin' watermelons Out of my truck patch Polk salad Annie, Polk salad Annie the gators got your granny Everybody said it was a shame Cause her momma was a workin' on the chain gang.

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[@papaldanondo]

A real pleasure@@ShanghaiJazzVideos

[@annhitchcock3093]

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

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[@MrMusicguyma]

Funky stuff from this quartet on the great Tony Joe White Classic. Oh, yeah. POLK - --SALAD --- ANNIE!

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[@vikingblood0408]

I'm all POLKed out! Great version!

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[@fethiisri2064]

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

[@billybobroyale]

Class!!!

[@Pontan145]

Amazing!

[@Tycho114]

Such a great rendition of this classic. I need to come down to your club and see these guys.

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

Hey Tycho114, this is Gene, the video producer. If you can make it this weekend, it just so happens that this group led by Saron Crenshaw will be playing at the club TOMORROW NIGHT (11/26) - www.shanghaijazz.com/schedule.html - hope you can make it!

[@ShanghaiJazzVideos]

...If you are planning to go tomorrow night, please call ahead of time to make a reservation for 6:15 or 8:30 dinner. Tele: 973-822-2899

[@Tycho114]

Thanks Gene. I'm several hundred miles away, so it'll have to wait. But I'd like to make a trip to NJ at some point in the next few months, so when I do, I'll check the listings.

[@stephenwreford2160]

This is the real thing.Rock on.From rockin Steve.Exeter ,UK.

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[@melloyello4404]

Zuperb

[@thomasbaker4657]

salat ! damn it .

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[@SaphirSouenEstherG]

"Living Tribute to Tony Joe White - July 23, 1947 - Oct 24, 2018" - Reshared on FB July 23, 2020💖