BLACK & WHITE 7/15/1997 and "The House I Live

and "The House I Live In" -- which is buried pretty deeply on most hits compilations -- is given almost a place of honor here as the seventh song on Disc One

or early warnings that the group had begun their inevitable decline

Tension and release

this 33-track compilation happily hopscotches through the years

whether it's delivering the yin and the yang via electro-pop tomfoolery ("True Affection")

BLACK & WHITE 7/15/1997 and "The House I LiveWhen "Polk Salad Annie" blared from transistor radio speakers in the summer of 1969, the first thought was of Creedence Clearwater Revival, for Tony Joe White's swamp rock bore more than a passing resemblance to the sound John Fogerty whipped up on Bayou Country and Green River. But White was the real thing he really was from the bayou country of Louisiana, while Fogerty's bayou country was conjured up in Berkeley, CA. Plus, White had a mellow