Big Joe Williams
Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over five decades, he recorded the songs "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Crawlin' King Snake", and "Peach Orchard Mama", among many others, for various record labels. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992. The blues historian Barry Lee Pearson (Sounds Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story, Virginia Piedmont Blues) described Williams's performance: When I saw him playing at Mike Bloomfield's "blues night" at the Fickle Pickle, Williams was playing an electric nine-string guitar through a small ramshackle amp with a pie plate nailed to it and a beer can dangling against that. When he played, everything rattled but Big Joe himself. The total effect of this incredible apparatus produced the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music I have ever heard.
Genre: blues, country-blues, classic-blues
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Top Tracks
- Midnight Creep
- Little Leg Woman
- Baby Please Don’T Go
- Somebody's Been Worryin'
- Break 'Em on Down
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Highway 49
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- New Orleans Streamline
- Sinking Blues
- Goin' Away, Won't Be Back Til Fall
- Terraplane Blues
- Baby, Please Don't Go
- Ride In My Car Blues
- Nobody Knows When You're Down And Out
- Put On Your Nightcap Baby
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
- 44 Blues
- Sugar Mama
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