Submission Polk Salad Annie

[Tom Read]

Polk Salad Annie - Elvis Presley

Las Vegas live version with Jerry Scheff’s bass solo:

 

[red_rhino]

For some reason, I woke up yesterday with this song playing in my head, but the Tony Joe White version. I have no idea why; didn’t hear it at the supermarket or anything like that. It played on and off all day. Apparently I’m spending too much time on Talkbass because I know what’s going to be posted before it happens.

 

[Michedelic]

Polk Salad Annie - Elvis Presley

Las Vegas live version with Jerry Scheff’s bass solo:

For some reason, I woke up yesterday with this song playing in my head, but the Tony Joe White version. I have no idea why; didn’t hear it at the supermarket or anything like that. It played on and off all day. Apparently I’m spending too much time on Talkbass because I know what’s going to be posted before it happens.

The Elvis cover is cool, if not a little, uh, sped up, but Tony Joe’s is of course the definitive version, and Scheff is basically quoting what Norbert Putnam played on the original, a little more funky greasy take.

 

[4-stringB]

BTW, it's POKE Salad Annie. Cheers.

 

[frankie5string]

BTW, it's POKE Salad Annie. Cheers.

lol... Technically the dish is "Poke Sallet"
He wrote the song as "Polk Salad Annie" - I don't know if that's some sort of a pun, or if that's some sort of Cajun-adjacent spelling of "pokeweed" but it is what it is. Pretty cool to read that he was inspired by Bobby Gentry to push out that and "Rainy Night in Georgia," though.

By the way, it's very hard to eat. I've tried it.

 

[mpdd]

very nice

 

[dadglasser]

BTW, it's POKE Salad Annie. Cheers.

I always heard it as "oak salad Annie".