Brook Benton

From The Archives: The Tony Joe White Interview

Earlier this year Tony Joe White played a show in Auckland – he’s a regular visitor to our shores, I’ve seen him a bunch of times. I was offered an interview – and agreed – because I’d spoken to him one other time and really enjoyed it. I mean here’s a guy who wrote Rainy […]

The Vinyl Countdown # 1044

Brook Benton, My Country (1966) When I interviewed Tony Joe White a few years ago he told me that it was the highlight of his life to have a song covered by Brook Benton – and that Benton’s version of that song (Rainy Night In Georgia) was “definitive” – it was, according to the song’s […]