Big Joe Williams
USA
Born: 16 October 1903
Died: 17 December 1982
Genres: Blues
Styles: Country Blues, Electric Delta Blues, Delta Blues, Electric Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Blues Revival, Acoustic Blues, Early American Blues
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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 play...
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