Latest Release
- 9 AUG 2023
- 24 Songs
- Shake Your Boogie · 1962
- Baby Please Don't Go · 1998
- Stack'O Dollars · 1998
- Baby Please Don't Go · 1996
- 100 Blues Classics & Greatest Blues Hits - The Very Best Classic Blues Collection · 1971
- The Sonet Blues Story · 2005
- Shake Your Boogie · 1962
- Shake Your Boogie · 1962
- Big Joe Williams Vol. 1 1935 - 1941 · 1991
- Shake Your Boogie · 1962
Singles & EPs
Live Albums
Appears On
- Lightnin' Hopkins & The Blues Summit
About Big Joe Williams
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, 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. He recorded through five decades for Vocalion, OKeh, Paramount, Bluebird, Prestige, Delmark, and many others. According to Charlie Musselwhite, he and Big Joe kicked off the blues revival in Chicago in the '60s. ~ Barry Lee Pearson
- HOMETOWN
- Crawford, MS, United States
- BORN
- 16 October 1903
- GENRE
- Blues