Latest Release
- 9 AUG 2023
- 24 Songs
- Shake Your Boogie · 1962
- Shake Your Boogie · 1962
- Baby Please Don't Go · 1996
- Blues Bash (Remastered) · 1996
- The Ultimate Jazz Archive 12: Blues - Big Joe Williams, Vol. 2 · 1966
- The Ultimate Jazz Archive 12: Blues - Big Joe Williams, Vol. 2 · 1966
- Big Joe Williams Vol. 1 1935 - 1941 · 1991
- Southside Blues · 1981
- Baby Please Don't Go · 1996
- Merry Blue Christmas · 2006
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