Big Joe Williams
Big Joe Williams was a gifted Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist,
noted for his unique rhythmic playing of a nine-string electric guitar. He was
born into a family of blues performers and left home at 19 to live the life of a
travelling bluesman playing for workers at logging camps, railways, stores, bars
and anywhere he could perform.
He was influenced by Charley Patton and in the 1930s travelled with the young
Muddy Waters and David 'Honeyboy' Edwards around the Mississippi Delta. In 1935
Williams recorded his best-known song, 'Baby Please Don't Go'. It would go on...
Highway 49John Lee Hooker and Big Joe Williams
Highway 49Big Joe Williams
Baby Please Don't GoBig Joe Williams and Sonny Boy Williamson II
Baby Please Don't GoBig Joe Williams
Drive Away BluesBig Joe Williams and Blind Willie McTell
Confessin' the BluesBig Joe Williams and Count Basie & His Orchestra
Highway 49John Lee Hooker and Big Joe Williams
Po' Joe
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Highway 49Big Joe Williams
Big Joe Williams And The Stars Of Mississippi Blues
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Baby Please Don't GoBig Joe Williams and Sonny Boy Williamson II
Po' Joe
Baby Please Don't GoBig Joe Williams
Po' Joe
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Drive Away BluesBig Joe Williams and Blind Willie McTell
Atlanta Strut
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Confessin' the BluesBig Joe Williams and Count Basie & His Orchestra
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