Growing up in north Louisiana’s West Carroll Parish, Tony Joe White picked cotton on his dad’s farm and pokeweed in the woods and fields. When he wasn’t working or going to school, White and his friends swam in the Boeuf River and roamed the swamps. And there was music. White’s parents, brother and five sisters sang and played gospel and country music on the family’s front porch. But youngest child Tony Joe didn’t make his own music until his big bro...