Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at
www.franklintheatre.com/tickets/music or call 615-538-2076. Tony Joe
White has led a life of accomplishments since he emerged from his home
in Louisiana’s swamp country and the hardscrabble circuit of Texas
honky-tonks. His songwriting has become part of America’s
soundtrack, while his songs have been memorably interpreted by the
likes of Brook Benton, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Roy Orbison, and
Etta James. Tina Turner created a intensely soulful rendition of
“Steamy Windows” and Brook Benton’s take on “Rainy Night in
Georgia” is unforgettable. As the keyboard player for the
tremendously popular band Widespread Panic, Jojo Hermann may call
Atlanta, Georgia home, but it's in Mississippi - where he once played
coffeehouses and clubs with his old band Beanland -- that he considers
his true roots to lie. And in the last few years, whenever he's had
the chance, Hermann has stepped out from behind the keyboards, picked
up a guitar, and headed back to Oxford, Mississippi -- back to the
familiarity of his old stomping grounds and his old friends - to strum
some "cowboy chords" and have some good old musical fun.
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