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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 exceptional 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. As a youngster, I met him in Delmark owner Bob Koester’s store, the Jazz Record Mart. At the time, Big Joe was living there when not on his constant travels. According to Charlie Musselwhite, he and Big Joe kicked off the blues revival in Chicago in the ’60s.
When I saw him playing at Mike Bloomfield’s “blues night” at the Fickle Pickle, Williams was playing 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 I have ever heard.
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. As a youngster, I met him in Delmark owner Bob Koester’s store, the Jazz Record Mart. At the time, Big Joe was living there when not on his constant travels. According to Charlie Musselwhite, he and Big Joe kicked off the blues revival in Chicago in the ’60s.
When I saw him playing at Mike Bloomfield’s “blues night” at the Fickle Pickle, Williams was playing 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 I have ever heard.
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hashbrown_jr escreveu:
thanks you Big Joe Williams blues star
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Parisblues escreveu:
Il y a un large choix d'images sans faire d'incitation au tabac. s'il vous plait votez . / there's a large choice of pictures without doing tabacco incitation. please vote.
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maskeraddanne escreveu:
Master of the... NINE-string guitar, really? That makes him stand out, for damn sure! [2]
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Druid66 escreveu:
Master of the... NINE-string guitar, really? That makes him stand out, for damn sure!
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staytooned escreveu:
@staytooned007 (tweet me). STAYTOONED WAS HERE~
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JoshCIVM escreveu:
...I think everyone was just a cracked nutcase. Which is what makes them so cool.
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Jim_Lithium escreveu:
Pigmeatl - I think you got it wrong. I have the 'High Times Reader' book which includes a lenghty account by Michael Bloomfield called "Me and Big Joe" about his friendship and trips with the guy. They went to see Jazz Gillum together and he was the one who was living in a shack, stoking a raging fire in the middle of the summer.
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BluesRok escreveu:
At the group Blues Artist of the Week, you can vote for up to 5 artist for the title each week, and play some great blues games! Hope to see you there!
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PigmeatI escreveu:
I remember reading an account by Paul Butterfield about trying to locate Big Joe in the 60's when the blues revival took off. He was going to take him out on tour. He found Big Joe holed up in a shack in the middle of summer,fire blazing in the stove,every stitch of clothes he owned on, widows and doors sealed tight hollerin' about how the fire was keeping the Devil away. Butterfield got him out and spent some time with him,but I think Big Joe scared the living Hell out of him? Sometimes you need to let sleeping dogs lie.
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BlindWilliam escreveu:
I'm'a build me a scaffold/and hang my doggone self. Bring your bags from the south over to Great Black Music. P E A C E > bw
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SYL2Oh escreveu:
The many years spent on roads have fed the imagination of this guitarist whith the full game!
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Carlos44 escreveu:
big man ;)
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safe-as-milk escreveu:
history will favour me as the first person on the shoutbox. some of the best delta guitar work out there
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