Big Joe Williams
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Born in Crawford, Mississippi, Williams performed frequently, wandering across the United States busking and playing stores, bars, alleys and work camps, as well as recording for Okeh, Bluebird Records, Delmark Records, Prestige Records and Vocalion.
He became popular with folk-blues fans. He recorded for the Trumpet, Delmark, Prestige and Vocalion labels, among others. He became a regular on the concert and coffeehouse circuits, touring Europe and Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s and performing at major U.S. music festivals.[4]
Marc Miller described a 1965 performance in Greenwich Village:
“Sandwiched in between the two sets, perhaps as an afterthought, was the bluesman Big Joe Williams (not to be confused with the jazz and rhythm and blues singer Joe Williams who sang with Count Basie). He looked terrible. He had a big bulbous aneuristic protrusion bulging out of his forehead. He was equipped with a beat up old acoustic guitar which I think had nine strings and sundry homemade attachments and a wire hanger contraption around his neck fashioned to hold a kazoo while keeping his hands free to play the guitar. Needless to say, he was a big letdown after the folk rockers. My date and I exchanged pained looks in empathy for what was being done this Delta blues man who was ruefully out of place.
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Baby Please Don't Go
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These Are My Blues
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Big Joe Williams and the Stars of Mississippi Blues
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jazzthieve
Spotify playlist: Blues: Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Electric Blues, Jump Blues, Piedmont Blues
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ziomaliszta
That's the way to play good ol' blues! Just great!
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Forteski
American Folk Blues Festival group: http://www.last.fm/group/American+Folk+Blues+Festival
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hashbrown_jr
thanks you Big Joe Williams blues star
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Parisblues
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maskeraddanne
Master of the... NINE-string guitar, really? That makes him stand out, for damn sure! [2]
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Druid66
Master of the... NINE-string guitar, really? That makes him stand out, for damn sure!
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staytooned
@staytooned007 (tweet me). STAYTOONED WAS HERE~
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JoshCIVM
...I think everyone was just a cracked nutcase. Which is what makes them so cool.
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Jim_Lithium
Pigmeatl - I think you got it wrong. I have the 'High Times Reader' book which includes a lenghty account by Michael Bloomfield called "Me and Big Joe" about his friendship and trips with the guy. They went to see Jazz Gillum together and he was the one who was living in a shack, stoking a raging fire in the middle of the summer.
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BluesRok
At the group Blues Artist of the Week, you can vote for up to 5 artist for the title each week, and play some great blues games! Hope to see you there!
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PigmeatI
I remember reading an account by Paul Butterfield about trying to locate Big Joe in the 60's when the blues revival took off. He was going to take him out on tour. He found Big Joe holed up in a shack in the middle of summer,fire blazing in the stove,every stitch of clothes he owned on, widows and doors sealed tight hollerin' about how the fire was keeping the Devil away. Butterfield got him out and spent some time with him,but I think Big Joe scared the living Hell out of him? Sometimes you need to let sleeping dogs lie.
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BlindWilliam
I'm'a build me a scaffold/and hang my doggone self. Bring your bags from the south over to Great Black Music. P E A C E > bw
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SYL2Oh
The many years spent on roads have fed the imagination of this guitarist whith the full game!
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Carlos44
big man ;)
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safe-as-milk
history will favour me as the first person on the shoutbox. some of the best delta guitar work out there
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