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  • Born in Mississippi as one of 16 children, Williams learned to play guitar at five on a homemade instrument.
  • Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, – December 17, ) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound.
  • BIG JOE WILLIAMS WASN'T A TYPICAL BLUES GUITARIST.

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    Big Joe Williams was a classic Mississippi Delta Bluesman. This gruff voiced, awkward fellow with his nine-string guitar had played in jug-bands and minstrel shows; he had wandered all over the South ‘riding the blinds’ as a hobo; played for tips on street-corners and juke-joints and then, when he moved to Chicago, wrote some songs that are still played every day. Later, when he began touring the world as one of the men whose original Blues style had changed our music, he presented a wild eccentric figure that no-one who saw him perform will ever forget.

    Not to be confused with the Georgia singer Joe Williams who fronted the Count Basie Orchestra, Big Joe picked up guitar in his hometown of Crawford MS, where he was born in , and crossed the State line to join the Birmingham Jug Band that recorded for the Okeh label in This was a loose arrangement that allowed Big Joe to continue hitch-hiking around the Delta juke-joints and East Texas lumber camps, occasionally hooking up with the Rabbit’s Foot Minstrel Show and, in the process, developing his own very personal style of country Blues. Improvising a nine-string guitar, Big Joe slapped and bashed his instrument like a drum and his style of playing the lower strings pre-figured some bass-guitar riffs as he bellowed out his huge
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    Big Road Blues Show 10/17/ Tough Times &#; A Tribute to Big Joe Williams Pt. 1

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