Flying Mojito Bros Share ‘Makin’ Love Is Good For You’ Track From Tony Joe White Remix Album

Flying Mojito Bros will release The Swamp Fox, an album featuring their remixes of recordings by late singer-songwriter Tony Joe White, on March 13. The London-based duo’s latest preview of the forthcoming collaborative release is the sultry, pulsating single, “Makin’ Love Is Good For You.”

Tony Joe White, known as The Swamp Fox, was a native of Louisiana and wrote such noteworthy songs as “Polk Salad Annie,” “Undercover Agent For The Blues” and “Rainy Night in Georgia.” White died in 2018 at age 75.

White’s son and official archivist, Jody White, contacted Flying Mojito Bros (Ben Chetwood and Jack Sellen) to collaborate with them on the remix album. Flying Mojito Bros previously shared the album’s single, “Alligator Stomp.”

Flying Mojito Bros provided the below statement regarding “Makin’ Love Is Good For You”:

“Pure Tony Joe brilliance here – he really is a master. Sure, cheeky, but always charming and charismatic with it. It’s this songwriting and swagger – not to mention musicianship – that leads us to consider him our ideal frontman. As with the other tracks from the album, this was reworked from stereo masters – adding effects, restructuring, new beats, melodies.

“And further for this track, we worked with parts taken from both the studio band recording that originally appeared on the brilliant, sultry Eyes LP (1976) and the Home Studio version that was until very recently a totally unheard archival track, seeing light on the newly-expanded Eyes album release. Doing this allowed a greater degree of separation to work with, owing to the more sparsely recorded home demo.”

Flying Mojito Bros will celebrate The Swamp Fox release with a special performance on March 14 at Nashville’s Skinny Dennis. Additional tour dates are scheduled into June.

“Makin’ Love Is Good For You” will be officially released tomorrow, Wednesday, February 18. Watch the exclusive premiere of the music video for the new track: