Product Details

• Actors: Tony Joe White
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: New West Records
• DVD Release Date: February 21, 2006
• Run Time: 63 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000E1XOL2
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #90,700 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Track Listing
1 - Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
2 – Disco Blues
3 – Red Neck Woman
4 – Rainy Night In Georgia
5 – Even Trolls Love Rock And Roll
6 – Willie And Laura Mae Jones
7 – Billy
8 – Lustful Earl And The Married Woman
9 – Swamp Rap
10 – I Came Here To Party
11 – Polk Salad Annie
12 – That’s The Way A Cowboy Rocks And Rolls
13 – 300 Pounds Of Hungry
14 – I get Off On It

Product Description

The Live From Austin, Texas series takes the classic performances from the award winning Austin City Limits TV show and makes them available to consumers with improved audio quality and bonus songs that were cut from the original broadcast. This latest set includes performances from some of country music’s Outlaws, including Tony Joe White, trailblazers who didn’t follow the trends and refused to play by the rules set by Music Row. This release features Tony Joe's December 1980 performance at Austin City Limits. Also available on CD.

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Poke Salad Uber Alles, February 28, 2006

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Travis Dubya McGee Bickle "elitist duffer" (Texas Quail Hunting Camp) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tony Joe White - Live from Austin, TX (DVD)

Another stellar entry in the Austin City Limits Concert series New West has been putting out...Tony Joe White live, caught on film here, adds a dimension of charisma not discernible on the basis of the records alone...worth the price of admission for the version of "Polk Salad Annie" a rocking and weirdly uplifting little dittie, if you haven't heard it. Pristine sound and visuals abound here, typical for the series....

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's FINALLY here!, March 4, 2006

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Bill Board (God's Wrath, Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Tony Joe White - Live from Austin, TX (DVD)

As I mentioned in my review for a similar product in C.C. Music, "I've been waiting for this since 1980." Why? Well, the album from which this concert draws most of its material, "The Real Thang" (and that STILL hasn't been released on cd...are you listening anyone?)was released on the dreaded Casablanca label, home of (barf) disco. That being said (and, hopefully, ignored), the music is WAY beyond "great," "fantastic," etc; I mean, just dig the titles of the songs for a...hint: "Mamas Don't Let Your Cowboys Grow Up To Be Babies," "Swamp Rap," "Redneck Women," and the song that ENSURES TJW's place in Rock and Roll Heaven, "I Get Off On It." Tony Joe had a quality that was (and HAS been) lacking in either the "Rock" or "Country" genres: a sense of humor. If this is the episode of "Austin City Limits" that I think it is, when Tony Joe resurrects his chestnet, "Poke Salad Annie," he even observes that the "poke salad" mentioned serve(d) as a (ahem) smoking mixture, too. Even his "adult contemporary" material, "Rainy Night In Georgia" is performed. TJW, I'm very grateful that 25 years later, this is FINALLY being made available to a public who only knew you from "Poke Salad," or that brilliant stuff you did with Tina Turner. Hope you'll tour behind this, and I'll volunteer to play bass if you do!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Swamp Fox Rocks, June 10, 2007

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This review is from: Tony Joe White - Live from Austin, TX (DVD)

This CD was recorded on Austin City Limits in 1980, but nothing of the music sounds dated. White's funk and humor stands him in good stead here.

Of course, he revives his 60's standard, "Poke Salad Annie" and takes us reminiscing with a little bit of 80's contemporary with "Disco Blues."

I just wish the video had been released. I saw the show long ago on PBS and it was one of the most memorable ACS segments I've ever viewed.