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Booker T. Washington White (Bukka White)
One of my favourite sets. Shown on the BBC back in the early eighties this set was really something special
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Big Joe Williams - Meet Me Around The Corner
Recorded:
Chicago, March 27. 1941
Joe Williams (g) (vcl), William Mitchell (imb)
Big Joe Williams (born Joseph Lee Williams, October 16, 1903 - December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality
Born in Crawford, Mississippi, as a youth Williams 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 later 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 Williams
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Blues TV | LOUISIANA RED - The Story Of Louisiana Red
R.I.P. Louisiana Red – March 23rd, 1932 to February 25, 2012
Louisiana Red. Terrific slide!
Otis Spann - Riverside Blues
Jimmy Dawkins
Jimmy Dawkins: 5 Albums
Jimmy Dawkins - Fast Fingers - 1969 (1998) | The Jimmy Dawkins Band - Blisterstring - 1977 (1996) | Jimmy Dawkins - Blues And Pain - 1994 | Jimmy Dawkins - Hot Wire 81 - 1994 | Jimmy Dawkins - American Roots: Blues - 2002
Junior Wells and Buddy Guy - Snatch It Back and Hold It
