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: 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: The Road To Robert Johnson And Beyond (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: Definitive Delta Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Definitive Delta Blues (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Selection, Volume 3
Title: Blues Selection Volume 5
Title: Blues Selection Volume 6
Title: Blues Selection, Volume 7
Title: Classic Blues From Bluesville (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Classic Blues From Bluesville (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Kennedy's Blues
Genre: Rock, Club/Dance
Title: 100 Blues Classics & Greatest Blues Hits (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Living The Blues ~ Blues Roots 1930-1944
Genre: Blues
Title: The Blues: A Musical Journey (Martin Scorsese) (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Kings And The Queen Volume Two
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues
Title: Blues Spirit
Genre: Blues
Title: Hear Me Howling! (CD1)
Title: Legends Of The Blues Volume 1
Genre: Blues
Title: Essential Mississippi Blues
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Title: Essential Delta Blues
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Title: Legends Of The Blues (Shout Records)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues
Title: Blues Noir
Genre: Blues
Title: Masters Of Jazz Vol. 15-Blues Giants
Genre: Blues
Title: Wall Street Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: I Heard The Blues A Calling Me
Genre: Soul
Title: Shake Baby Shake A Blues Anthology
Genre: House, Tech House, Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Pop
Title: 100 Tubes Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: We Sang 'Em First
Title: The Kings Of The Delta Blues (CD1)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, Disco, Pop
Title: Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969, Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: Trump’s Subterranean Homesick Blues 2019
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Hits The Blues (CD5)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues For Every Blues Mood, Part Two
Genre: Blues
Title: TSF 100% Jazz (Vol. 1: Jazz In The City) (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: A Shot Of Blues (All Tracks Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: Bill Wyman's Blues Odyssey
Genre: Blues
Title: The Rough Guide To Delta Blues Vol. 2
Genre: Blues
Title: 20 Greatest Chicago Blues Songs (All Tracks Remastered)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Kings Of The Delta Blues (CD2)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, Disco, Pop
Title: The Kings Of The Delta Blues (CD3)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Blues, Jazz, Rock, Punk Rock, Disco, Pop
Title: Story To Tell (40'S - 60'S Blues Hits)
Genre: Blues
Title: The Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Come Back Baby (Black Blues Legends)
Genre: Blues
Title: Fool Man Blues (Vintage Black Blues)
Genre: Blues
Title: Hoogie Boogie (Blues Legends Are Back)
Genre: Blues
Title: Before Bob Dylan: 100 Recordings (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Gospel, Rock, Rock & Roll, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: An Anthology Of 20th Century Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Halloween Swampy Blues 2023
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Relaxing Retro Halloween 2023
Genre: Traditional Pop Music, Lounge
Title: Rough Guide To Mississippi Blues
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