- Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing · 2021
- Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958 · 1960
- Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing · 2021
- Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958 · 1960
- Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958 · 1960
- Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing · 2021
- Friends of Old Time Music: The Folk Arrival (1961-1965) · 2006
- Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing · 2021
- Good Morning Mr. Walker · 1971
- Joseph Spence: The Complete Folkways Recordings, 1958 · 1960
- Bahaman Folk Guitar: Music of the Bahamas, Vol. 1 · 1959
- Encore: Unheard Recordings of Bahamian Guitar and Singing · 2021
- Good Morning Mr. Walker · 1971
About Joseph Spence
A remarkable man of endless good cheer, guitarist Joseph Spence was discovered in the Bahamas by musicologist Samuel Charters in 1958. Nearly 50 at the time, he began recording in earnest. His unique sound is marked by his percussive calypso/blues/folk guitar style and his unique guttural voice, which sounds like a cross between Captain Beefheart and Blind Willie McTell. His idiosyncratic music has been enormously influential to many blues, gospel, and folk artists.
- HOMETOWN
- Andros, Bahama
- BORN
- August 3, 1910
- GENRE
- Blues