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: Very Best Jazz Guitar Collection, Vol. 1 (Live)
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
Collections
Title: History Of Rock Vol 1
Genre: Rock
Title: Discover the Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Roots Of Rock Vol 2
Genre: Rock
Title: Southern Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Club Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: 45 Blues Favorites
Genre: Blues
Title: Dinner Party Playlist: Back Porch Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues History
Genre: Blues
Title: The Club - Blues 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Country Blues Hard Hitters Vol. Two
Genre: Blues
Title: The Heart of Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: The Heart of Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Ultimate Blues Collection Vol 6
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Blues Classics: Daisy
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Classics: Daisy
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Blues Hits
Genre: Blues
Title: En Privado... Blues Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues & Call Me
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of the Blues (Remastered)
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: The Blues an Acoustic Anthology
Genre: Blues
Title: Bluesville the Best Folk Blues Album
Genre: Blues, World Music, Acoustic, Folk
Title: This Is Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Favorites for the Fall
Genre: Blues
Title: Me and the Devil Blues Authentic Blues Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: An Introduction to Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: BLUES: Summer Licks
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues for the Buck
Genre: Blues
Title: Waking Up With the Blues
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Road House Blues, Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Grandes del Jazz & Blues
Genre: Jazz
Title: Crossroads the Best of the Classic Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Roots of the Who
Genre: Blues
Title: My Black Mama
Genre: Blues
Title: Smile At Me (Lover's Blues)
Title: America By Blues
Title: Blues from the Vaults
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Mean and No Good Woman
Title: Blues, Booze & Broken Hearts
Title: Best - Delta Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Discover - Delta Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Ultimate Jazz Archive, Set 12
Genre: Blues
Title: ABC Of The Blues CD 49
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Very Best Of Blues CD2
Genre: Blues
Title: The Journey Of Chris Strachwitz (Disc 2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Pop
Title: Absolutely The Best Of The Blues, Volume 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Let Me Tell You About The Blues: Chicago
Genre: Blues
Title: Best Of The Blues CD3
Genre: Pop
Title: Roots N' Blues: The Retrospective, 1925 - 1950 (Disc 4)
Genre: Blues, Gospel, World Music, Country
Title: How Blue Can You Get?
Title: Acoustic Blues (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Acoustic Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Pure... Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Rough Guide To Delta Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Essential Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Roots Of AC DC (Rock Classics)
Genre: Rock
Title: The Best Blues Album In The World Ever (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Delmark 60 Years Of Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Bottleneck Blues Anthology (Disc 2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Bottleneck Blues Anthology (Disc 1)
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