- Tony Joe White "Blues Masters Live" 33 1/3 RPM LP !
- The unreleased Blues Masters at the Crossroads set !
- Recorded live at Blue Heaven Studios in October 2003 !
- Recording Engineers : David Baker and Katsuhiko Naito !
- Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab from the original analog master tapes !
- Direct-to-board gatefold jacket !

"Tony Joe White was recorded in October 2003 and has a different but equally compelling character. His unmistakable voice sounds rich, deep and incredibly lifelike while the music carries that swampy atmosphere for which he was so well known. The guitars have warmth and weight, the bass reaches deep and the entire recording has an intimate quality. I know, I know. Saying that a record sounds like the musicians are right there in the room with you may be one of the oldest audiophile clichés around. But with these (White and Tab Benoit), it really is true. ...What a joy these records are". - Steve Westman, www.liveaudiophileroundtable.com, September 2026 • Issue 11

"...it's a beautiful, beautiful sounding recording. It's it's soulful. It's funky. It's swampy. All those words, you know, you cannot talk about this angle of blues and Chad Kassem without talking about the swampy sound. It is that feel. It's got a rocking vibe to it and just a really um really intimate feel. I mean, you feel you're in the church. There is that cliche. you're feel like you're in the room, but this is literally like you're in that room, like you're in that sanctuary in Salina, Kansas. This is brilliant".- Norman Maslov, YouTube video

"Chad Kassem has been knowingly sitting on this musical goldmine for 23 years Tony Joe White on Telecaster accompanied by his drummer Mark 'Boom Boom' Cohen, making an enormous, soulful, swampy, room filling sound, just the two of them running through White's best known and some not so well numbers too before an adoring, awed 2003 Blues Masters at the Crossroads crowd. ...The purity of the Telecaster and drum sound is as good as it ever gets and that may sound like hyperbole but it's not. Add the way the engineering duo captures the room sound a sonic picture that will blow the ceiling off your listening room and deliver the church rafters and how they deliver the perfect balance of direct and ambient sound and you have in your hands a memorable, powerful event engraved in the grooves of a record you're sure to play and celebrate often". - Music = 11/11; Sound = 11/11 - Michael Fremer, TrackingAngle.com. Read Fremer's full review here.

When Tony Joe White walked onto the Blues Masters stage shades on, Telecaster in hand, and his amp dialed well past respectable everyone in the room felt the temperature rise.

By the time he launched into his first serpentine riff, you could practically smell the cypress and river mud. Photographer John Volk said it best : "He's the swamp Lou Reed". And on this electrifying new live album, Blues Masters Live, you hear exactly why.

White performed for the sixth annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads taking place in October 2003 at Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, Kansas. In 1969 Tony Joe came howling out of the swamplands of Louisiana into the national spotlight with his classic "Polk Salad Annie" a Top 10 hit. The following year, Brook Benton hit N° 4 with White's "Rainy Night in Georgia".

For his Blues Masters set, recorded live, White unloaded. His harmonica work growls; his electric guitar cuts with a signature, grease-slicked tone only he could coax from six strings. This is the same songwriter whose tunes were covered by Elvis, Ray Charles, Joe Cocker, Etta James, Tina Turner, Waylon Jennings and more — a murderer's row of artists who knew genius when they heard it. And here, captured in full analog glory, he simply sits down and plays his soul out.

For guitarists, this is a masterclass in restraint and raw power. For vinyl lovers, it's a room-filling immersion into swamp rock at its most unfiltered.

Side A opens with the slinky, blues-soaked "Rich Woman Blues", followed by a faithful, storytelling-steeped "Willie and Laura Mae Jones". White turns the groove darker and funkier on "Undercover Agent for the Blues" before his humor surfaces in "Do You Have a Garter Belt", and then he digs deep into working-man blues with "Rico". Every track bristles with his trademark swamp swagger.

Flip the record and Side B detonates with a performance so hot it sizzles, taking down the crowd with "Steamy Windows". Followed by the cult-favorite "Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll", and dropping into the gritty motel-window vignette "Tunica Motel". White's voice thickens; as the side closes, the crowd roars for the inevitable: a ferocious, funk-strutting "Polk Salad Annie".

All of the night's action was captured in full pristine sound by the recording engineers the late David Baker, the noted former chief engineer for Vanguard Records and Katsuhiko Naito, leading New York City jazz recording engineer, and a chief engineer for Al Di Meola's Churchill Studios.

Capturing it all in glorious fashion, this 33 1/3 RPM LP will put you the center of the action. Mastered from the original analog tapes by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, and pressed on flawless super-silent vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, you get a direct-to-board gatefold jacket to house the record.

Blues Masters Live is Tony Joe White at full fire no pretense, no polish just swamp blues played with unbreakable conviction.