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Joseph Lee Williams

Született Crawfordban, (Mississippi) 1903 Oktober 16-án, meghalt Maconban, (Mississippi) 1982 December 17-én. A delta blues egyik legnagyobb előadója és szerzője volt. Játszott 7, 9, 12 huros gitáron. Hangszerei általában

átalakitott 1944 Gibson L-7-esek voltak. Legendás gitárai ki vannak állitva Delta Blues Museum-ban. Chikago és mississipi, gyapot és cement...

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Big Joe Williams - Highway 49

Big Joe Williams

"Le style de Big Joe Williams est ancré dans le Delta blues et possède un caractère unique. Il joue conduisant les rythmiques et les lignes mélodiques simultanément tout en chantant en même temps. Pour cela, il jouait à l'aide de deux médiators placés sur son pouce et sur son index sur une guitare en grande partie modifiée. En effet, Williams avait ajouté un micro électrique rudimentaire dont les câbles s'enroulaient autour de sa guitare. Il ajouta également trois cordes supplémentaires à son instrument."

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  Bessie Mae Smith-He Treats Me Like A Dog (November 6, 1930)

  
  
  Recorded circa November 6, 1930. Bob Hall posits that Bessie Mae may have also recorded under the names St. Louis Bessie, Blue Belle, Streamline Mae, and/or Mae Belle Miller. It is possible she may have also been the common-law spouse of bluesman Big Joe Williams. Hall also believes that the piano accompaniment on this track might be Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes. The lyrics of this tune leave little to the imagination regarding the singer's current relationship.
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  Big Joe Williams - Arkansas Woman (1966)

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  Big Joe talks about writing this number - with comments from Willie Dixon

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Crawling King Snake
(Joe Williams)

Recorded: Chicago, March 27, 1941
Big Joe Williams (g) (vcl)
William Mitchell (imb)

Born in Crawford, Mississippi, Williams as a youth began wandering across the United States busking and playing stores, bars, alleys and work camps. In the early 1920s he worked in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels revue and recorded with the Birmingham Jug Band in 1930 for the Okeh label.

In 1934 he was in St. Louis, where he met record producer Lester Melrose who signed him to a contract with Bluebird Records in 1935. He stayed with Bluebird for ten years, recording such blues hits as "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1935) and "Crawlin' King Snake" (1941), both songs later covered by many other performers. He also recorded with other blues singers, including John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Robert Nighthawk and Peetie Wheatstraw.

Williams remained a noted blues artist in the 1950s and 1960s, with his guitar style and vocals becoming popular with folk-blues fans. He recorded for the Trumpet, Delmark, Prestige and Vocalion labels, among others. He became a regular on the concert and coffeehouse circuits, touring Europe and Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and performing at major U.S. Festivals.

Big Joe's guitar playing is decidedly in the Delta Blues style, and yet is unique. He played driving rhythm and virtuosic lead lines simultaneously and sang over it all. He played with picks both on his thumb and index finger, plus his guitar was very heavily modified. Williams added a rudimentary electric pick-up, whose wires coiled all over the top of his guitar. He also added three extra strings, creating unison pairs for the first, second and fourth strings. His guitar was usually tuned to Open G, like such: (D2 G2 D3D3 G3 B3B3 D4D4), with a capo placed on the second fret to set the tuning to the key of A. During the 1920s and 1930s, Big Joe had gradually added these extra strings in order to keep other guitar players from being able to play his guitar. In his later years, he would also occasionally use a 12-string guitar with all strings tuned in unison to Open G. It is little known that Big Joe sometimes tuned a six-string guitar to an interesting modification of Open G. In this modified tuning, the bass D string (D2) was replaced with a .08 gauge string and tuned to G4. The resulting tuning was (G4 G2 D3 G3 B3 D4), with the G4 string being used as a melody string by Big Joe. This tuning was used exclusively for slide playing. He was inducted into the W. C. Handy Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.

He died December 17, 1982 in Macon, Mississippi. Big Joe is buried in private cemetery outside Crawford near the Lowndes County line. His headstone was primarilly paid for by friends and partially funded by a collection taken up among musicians at Clifford Antone's night club in Austin, Texas, organized by California music writer Dan Forte, and erected through the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund on October 9, 1994. Harmonica virtuoso and one time touring companion of Williams Charlie Musselwhite delivered the eulogy at the unveiling. Williams' headstone epitaph, composed by Dan Forte, proclaims him "King of the 9 String Guitar".

• Blues Rediscoveries; compilation album; released on Folkways Records, 1966
• Blues Roots/Mississippi; compilation album; released on Folkways Records, 1966
• Hell Bound and Heaven Sent Blues; with Short Stuff Macon; released on Folkways Records, 1968
• Mississippi's Big Joe Williams and His Nine-String Guitar; released on Smithsonian Folkways, 1995

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