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HEY LOCO FANS – Let’s sing Happy Birthday today to Joseph Lee “Big Joe” Williams born October 16, 1903. This Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar.
9 août 2023 · Big Joe Williams may have been the most cantankerous human being who ever walked the earth with guitar in hand. At the same time, he was an incredible blues musician: a gifted songwriter, a powerhouse vocalist, and an exceptional idiosyncratic guitarist.
9 août 2023 · Big Joe Williams may have been the most cantankerous human being who ever walked the earth with guitar in hand. At the same time, he was an incredible blues musician: a gifted songwriter, a powerhouse vocalist, and an exceptional idiosyncratic guitarist.
Joe Lee “Big Joe” Williams was born in the small town of Crawford, Mississippi, in western Lowndes County, on 16 October 1903, the same year W. C. Handy reported waking up at a train station in Tutwiler to what he called the weirdest music he had ever heard. Williams reportedly built his first guitar […]
Deux morceaux de Big Joe Williams : un sur la scène du Fickle Pickle capturé en 1963 et l'autre en septembre 1965 avec l'harmoniciste Paul Butterfield. Two tracks by Big Joe Williams : one on stage with the Fickle Pickle captured in 1963 and the other in september 1965 with harmonica player Paul Butterfield. THE GEORGE MITCHELL COLLECTION ...
Big Joe recorded a number of prewar blues classics for Bluebird and Columbia, including the much-covered Baby Please Don’t Go and several follow-ups, and during the postwar years when the record industry bypassed most country bluesmen of his generation, Joe was still able to hustle recording opportunities.
Big Joe Williams (c. 1903-1982) epitomized the life and times of the rambunctious, roving bluesman, traveling from coast to coast and around the world playing rugged, rhythmic blues on his nine-string guitar at juke joints, house parties, and concerts. Mentor to blues legends Muddy Waters and Honeyboy Edwards, Williams was born near Crawford, where he also spent his final years. His song ...
