Tony Joe White obituary

US singer and songwriter best known for Rainy Night in Georgia who described his southern style of music as ‘kind of swampy’Tony Joe White, who has died from a heart attack aged 75, grew up in rural Louisiana and was nicknamed “the Swamp Fox” due to his ability to write songs that conveyed the humidity, idiosyncrasies and tensions of the US south.The best known of these was Rainy Night in Georgia, which gained global recognition not through his own version but via a cover