Joe South

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Joe South (born Joseph Alfred Souter; February 28, 1940 – September 5, 2012) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer.

South received the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1970 for his songwriting and was once nominated for the award in 1972 for "Rose Garden."

Personal life

Joe's uncle, Tommy, died in 1971, resulting in his being clinically ill. Tommy South had been with Joe in Joe's backing band and accompanied him not only on live performances but also on recording sessions when he had hit songs for other artists such as Royal, Sandy Posey, Friend, and Lover, including their number ten Billboard hit song "Reach Out of the Shadow." "I didn't see myself doing [drugs] for the kicks," South said in an interview with Amy Duncan of Christian Science Monitor. I did it more or less to keep going and get inspired. The chemicals were compared to the inspiration." South's drug use resulted in a sarcastic attitude toward audiences, and he left Capitol after two other [unsuccessful] albums. South lived on the Hawaiian island of Maui for a time in the 1970s. "I pushed myself around for years," Duncan said, "I seriously kicked myself around for years... one of the main hang-ups was that I just refused to forgive myself." "You know, you can go to drug therapy centers, but it is not a permanent cure until it's a spiritual awakening."

There is no information about South's first marriage, divorce, or his first wife. South married Jan Tant's second wife in 1987. South said that this union turned things around, and Tant's enthusiasm inspired him to write songs and occasional public appearances.

Craig South, a voice-over artist in Southern California, was one of the South fathers one child, father Craig South.

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Career

Bill Lowery, an Atlanta music publisher and radio personality, welcomed South and was inspired by him. He started his recording career in Atlanta with the National Recording Corporation, where he served as a staff guitarist alongside other NRC artists Ray Stevens and Jerry Reed. NRC on CD has re-released South's oldest recordings. He soon returned to Nashville with The Manrando Group and then onto Charlie Wayne Felts Promotions. (Charlie Wayne Felts is the cousin of Rockabilly Hall of Fame Inductee and Grand Ole Opry Member Narvel Felts.)

South had his first top 50 hit song in July 1958 with a cover version of The Big Bopper's hit single Chantilly Lace's "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor," a novelty song called "The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor." South will continue to concentrate on songwriting.

South wrote two songs that were not recorded by Gene Vincent: "I Might Have Known," on the album Sounds Like Gene Vincent (Capitol Records, 1959), and "Gone Gone," which was included on the album The Crazy Beat of Gene Vincent.

South was also a key roleman, playing guitar on Tommy Roe's "Sheila," bass guitar on Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, and the classic tremolo guitar intro on Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools" on Tommy Roe. On Simon & Garfunkel's second album, Sounds of Silence, South played electric guitar, but Al Gorgoni and/or Vinnie Bell appear on the title track.

Billy Joe royal released five South songs (including "Down in the Boondocks," "I Knew You When" (later a hit for Donny Osmond and Linda Ronstadt), "Hush" (later a hit for Deep Purple, "Somebody's Image," with Russell Morris, and Kula Shaker), and "Rose Garden," a country and pop hit for singer Lynn Anderson (see below).

South's style evolved dramatically in his biggest single, no-nonsense "Games People Play" (allegedly influenced by Eric Berne's book of the same name), a hit on both directions of the Atlantic. The performance, which was accompanied by a lush string sound, an organ, and brass, was named winner of the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song and Song of the Year. "Birds of a Feather" was the first item on the South coast (originally "Bubbled Under" at No. 1). 106 on February 10–17, 1968, More successful as a cover by the Oakland Raiders than at No. 104. "Don't It Makes You Want to Go Home" is a book that was published in Las Vegas from 1977 to 1971. The back-to-nature "Don't It Makes You Want to Go Home" by two other soul-searchers, Brook Benton With The Dixie Flyers, and the socially provocative "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" was also covered by Elvis Presley).

Lynn Anderson's 1970–1971 country-pop sensation "Rose Garden," which was a hit in 16 countries around the world, was South's most commercially successful composition. Anderson received a Grammy Award for her singing, and South received two Grammy nominations for it as Best Country Song and (general) Song of the Year. South had more hits for Anderson, such as "How Can I Unlove You" (Billboard Country No. 1). 1) and "Fool Me" (Billboard Country No. 2) (Billboard Country No. 1) and "Fool Me." (crowd) 3: a.m. Freddy Weller, Jeannie C. Riley, and Penny DeHaven also had their hits on the Billboard country chart with South songs. In addition, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Glen Campbell, Loretta Lynn, Joan Carter, Loretta Lynn, Karen Burnett, Kitty Wells, Dottie West, Jim Nabors, Arlen Roth, Jesse Perry, Kevin Watson, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams Jr., James Taylor, the Tams, and k. d. lang are among the South's best known artists to have recorded South-penned songs.

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