Dip your toes back into the swamps with Tony Joe White on a new cut from his album Rain Crow on LA Times.

Over a loping drumbeat, throbbing bass and eerily distorted guitar, White, who wrote the songs with musician-actor Billy Bob Thornton, conjures pictures from a backwoods gathering as he sings, “I could ride on the tailgate of my daddy’s truck/he would take me to the river I could hear the boys cuttin’ up.”

The tale, White says, was inspired by a man with Down syndrome he knew growing up.

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