Big Joe Williams
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Biography
[Edit]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 exceptionally idiosyncratic guitarist. Despite his deserved reputation as a fighter (documented in Michael Bloomfield's bizarre booklet Me and Big Joe), artists who knew him well treated him as a respected elder statesman. Even so, they may not have chosen to play with him, because — as with other older Delta artists — if you played with him you played by his rules.
As protégé David "Honeyboy" Edwards described him, Williams in his early Delta days was a walking musician who played work camps, jukes, store porches, streets, and alleys from New Orleans to Chicago. He recorded through five decades for Vocalion, OKeh, Paramount, Bluebird, Prestige, Delmark, and many others. According to Charlie Musselwhite, he and Big Joe kicked off the blues revival in Chicago in the '60s.
When appearing at Mike Bloomfield's "blues night" at The Fickle Pickle, Williams played 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 one would likely ever hear.
Anyone who wants to learn Delta blues must one day come to grips with the idea that the guitar is a drum as well as a melody-producing instrument. A continuous, African-derived musical tradition emphasizing percussive techniques on stringed instruments from the banjo to the guitar can be heard in the music of Delta stalwarts Charley Patton, Fred McDowell, and Bukka White. Each employed decidedly percussive techniques, beating on his box, knocking on the neck, snapping the strings, or adding buzzing or sizzling effects to augment the instrument's percussive potential. However, Big Joe Williams, more than any other major recording artist, embodied the concept of guitar-as-drum, bashing out an incredible series of riffs on his G-tuned nine-string for over 60 years.
Title: Very Best Jazz Guitar Collection, Vol. 2
Artist: George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Big Joe Williams, Eddie Condon
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Ultimate Jazz Archive 12: Blues - Big Joe Williams, Vol. 2
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order Vol. 1 (1935-1941)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: Folk Blues Revival
Artist: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Big Joe Williams, Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Bond
Genre: Blues, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Acoustic
Title: Rediscovered Blues (CD2)
Artist: Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Terry
Genre: Blues
Title: Very Best Jazz Guitar Collection, Vol. 3
Artist: George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Big Joe Williams, Eddie Condon
Genre: Jazz
Title: Just The Blues, 1958-1961, (24 Successes) (Blues Left Texas)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Left Texas / Walk On, Little Girl (All Tracks Remastered)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Bash (Remastered)
Artist: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Big Joe Williams, Lightnin' Hopkins
Genre: Blues, Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Baby Please Don't Go (The Best of)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Title: An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Vol. 1 (Remastered)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Vol. 3 (Remastered)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: Rediscovered Blues (CD1)
Artist: Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Terry
Genre: Blues
Collections
Title: Ultimate Blues Collection Vol 1
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Hard Times Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: A House of Blues the Chicago Blues Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: The George Mitchell Collection Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Pilgrimage 1920 To 1950
Genre: Blues
Title: Mississippi Blues Trail
Genre: Blues
Title: All the Blues You Need
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues Came from Mississippi
Genre: Blues
Title: American Folk Blues Festival '72
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The George Mitchell Collection: Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: The Tomato Delta Blues Package
Genre: Blues
Title: Boom Boom Blues Essentials
Title: The Big Hootenanny (Remastered)
Genre: Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Greatest Blues Recordings Ever Made Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues With a Message
Genre: Pop
Title: I Blueskvarter 1964, Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of the Blues: 50 Favorites (Digital Version)
Genre: Blues
Title: 50 Best Blues Favorites
Genre: Blues
Title: I Have to Paint My Face
Genre: Pop
Title: Southern Country Blues, Vol. 2 (Box Set)
Genre: Blues
Title: Unforgetable - Bottleneck Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Soul Jazz Blues Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Rare Chicago Blues (1962-1968)
Genre: Blues
Title: Tell Me How About It
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Chicago Blues Rarities Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: The Heart of Blues, Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: Million Sellers the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Acoustic Blues Box Set
Genre: Blues
Title: Delta Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Original Blues Kings
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Delta Blues
Title: Black History Month the History of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of the Blues Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Hits!
Genre: Blues
Title: Big Boss Men - A Chicago Blues Collections
Genre: Blues
Title: The Roots of Van Morrison
Genre: Blues
Title: Penitentiary Blues: Songs to Do Hard Times By
Genre: Blues
Title: Classic Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Africa and the Blues (Connections and Reconnections)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Otis Rush & the Heroes of Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Song Before the Song
Genre: Alternative
Title: Smash Blues Hits, Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: A Vegetarian's Thanksgiving Playlist
Genre:
Title: 100 Cash Poor Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Christmas Hits From the Vaults
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: The Definitive R&B Series: 1942-1943
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Tasty Tracks
Genre: Pop
Title: Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
Genre: Blues
Title: Songs Before Other Acts Made Them Famous
Genre: Pop
Title: Lost Blues & Old Time Folk Songs
Genre: Pop
Title: The Blues That Built America - Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Southern Blues Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues At Christmas Classic Blues Songs
Genre: Blues, Traditional Pop Music
Title: Blues Anthology
Genre: Blues
Title: The Great Jazz Collection: Vol. 7
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Great Jazz Collection: Vol. 6
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Great Jazz Collection: Vol. 9
Genre: Jazz
Title: Roots Of Rock
Genre: Rock
Title: Vintage Jazz and Blues for Film & TV
Genre: Jazz
Title: Try Some of That
Genre: Blues
Title: Keep Your Arms Around Me
Genre: Blues
Title: Nobody in Mind
Genre: Blues
Featuring albums
Title: Blues Hoot
Artist: Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins
Title: Legends of the Blues, Vol. 1
Artist: Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong Orchestra
Title: 15 Down Home Gospel Classics
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Gospel, Christian Rock, Christian Country Music
Title: Lonesome Road Blues - 15 Years In The Mississippi Delta (1926-1941)
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues
Title: From Mississippi To Chicago the Blues Road Classic Blues
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues
Title: Lost Blues Tapes / More American Folk Blues Festival 1963-65
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Rap
Title: Chicago, Sweet Home of the Blues Essential Tracks, Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Blues
Title: The Ultimate Country Blues Collection
Artist: Leadbelly
Genre: Blues, Country, Songwriter/Lyricist, Acoustic
Title: I Asked For Whiskey, She Brought Me Gasoline
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues