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Who covered Polk Salad Annie?

Who covered Polk Salad Annie?

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Title Performer Release date
Polk Salad Annie Tony Joe White October 1968
Polk Salad Annie Bill Carlisle August 1969
Polk Salad Annie Clarence Reid 1969
Polk Salad Annie Tom Jones April 1970

Who wrote Poke Sallet Annie?

Tony Joe WhitePolk Salad Annie / Lyricist

Why is Polk Salad poisonous?

The boiling step in poke preparation is no joke—you are not only leaching out the aforementioned actively poisonous compounds, but also removing oxalic acid. This is another fun chemical that is in many leafy greens, including spinach, but in pokeweed oxalic acid occurs in toxically high levels.

Is poke salat poisonous?

In spring and early summer, shoots and leaves (not the root) are edible with proper cooking (hence the common name “poke sallet”, i.e., “poke salad”), but they later become deadly, and the berries are also poisonous.

Is Polk Salad poison?

Unfortunately, every part of the pokeweed plant, from roots to leaves to fruit, is poisonous to varying degrees. Thus a raw poke salad is a very, very bad idea.

Is Poke Salad poisonous?

Pokeweed is poisonous to humans, dogs, and livestock. In spring and early summer, shoots and leaves (not the root) are edible with proper cooking (hence the common name “poke sallet”, i.e., “poke salad”), but they later become deadly, and the berries are also poisonous.

Is Tony Joe White still alive?

October 24, 2018Tony Joe White / Date of death

Who played guitar on steamy windows?

He also wrote “Steamy Windows” and “Undercover Agent for the Blues”, both hits for Tina Turner in 1989; those two songs came by way of Turner’s producer at the time, Mark Knopfler, who was a friend of White….

Tony Joe White
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter
Instruments Guitar, vocals, harmonica
Years active 1967–2018