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: Rediscovered Blues (CD2)
Artist: Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Joe Williams, Sonny Terry
Genre: Blues
Title: Just The Blues, 1958-1961, (24 Successes) (Blues Left Texas)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Vol. 3 (Remastered)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: The Ultimate Jazz Archive 12: Blues - Big Joe Williams, Vol. 2
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: The Very Best of Big Joe Williams
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Title: An American Singer, Songwriter, Blues Master, Vol. 1 (Remastered)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Genre: Blues
Title: Baby Please Don't Go (The Best of)
Artist: Big Joe Williams
Collections
Title: Black Power - '60s & '70s
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: A Night in Memphis - America's Blues
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Title: Soul Jazz Blues Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: 101 - The Best of Vintage Blues
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor, Dance Pop
Title: Blues Masterpieces Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: An Introduction to Texas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Song Before the Song
Genre: Blues
Title: 30 Essential American Folk Blues Classics
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist, Acoustic
Title: Blues & Rockabilly Boogie
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Christmas Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Boogie & Blues - The Lost Album
Genre: Blues
Title: En Privado... Blues Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: The Legend Collection: Roadhouse Blues
Genre: Rock, Rock & Roll
Title: Out for Kicks - Blues Trashed & Fuzzed
Genre: Rock
Title: Best of Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The George Mitchell Collection
Genre: Blues
Title: Baby Please Don't Go! 30 Essential Blues Songs
Genre: Blues
Title: Complete Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Folk Blues, Vol. 1
Genre: Pop
Title: Absolutely the Best Chicago Blues Album In the World!
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Hits! 20 Songs That Inspired the Rockers
Genre: Blues
Title: American Folk Blues Festival '63
Genre: Blues, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Blues 'n Boogie
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues 1
Genre: Blues
Title: The Legacy of Blues (Volumen)
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues! Live In Concert
Title: Merry Blue Christmas
Genre: Traditional Pop Music
Title: Midnight Steppers
Genre: Blues
Title: Big Road Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Folk Blues, Vol. 3
Genre: Pop
Title: Early Blues Brothers
Genre: Blues
Title: The Sounds of Louisiana Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Rural Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Harmonica Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 15 Country Blues Classics
Genre: Pop
Title: Cool Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: 15 Down Home Gospel Classics
Genre: Gospel
Title: Authentic Folk Blues 1945 to 1970
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues 50 Platinum Masters
Genre: Blues
Title: Folk, Gospel & Blues: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Genre: Blues
Title: Feelin Bluesy Vol2
Genre: Blues
Title: Nothin' But the Blues Volume 1
Genre: Blues
Title: The Ultimate Black History Collection
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul
Title: Rockabilly Dance Party
Genre: Blues
Title: Mannish Boy Blues Anthology
Genre: Blues
Title: The Roots of Jeff Healey
Genre: Blues
Title: The Best of the Blues Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Highway 61: Ultimate Blues Classics
Genre: Blues
Title: The Very Best of Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Vintage Delta Sounds
Title: The Blues Roots Of Southern Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues for the Road, Vol. 3
Title: En Privado... Jazz Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: 6 Hours of the Greatest Blues Recordings Ever Made
Genre: Blues
Title: Early Blues Pioneers
Genre: World Music
Title: The World Of... Blues Power!
Title: Absolutely the Best of the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: I Blueskvarter 1964, Volume Three
Genre: Blues
Title: The Devil's Music Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Chicago Blues The 50s
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Roots & Folk Music
Genre: Blues
Title: Going Home Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Lost Highways (American Road Songs 1920s-1950s)
Genre: Alternative
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