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6. Apr. 2014 · Joe Williams was the catalyst for this new Basie band's self-discovery. Just as he'd told Rushing two decades earlier, Basie told Williams to emphasize the blues — not that Joe needed much urging: "I love the blues because it's so natural. It's life, man."
- Steven Cerra
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1968 Vinyl release of "Portraits In Blues, Vol. 7" on Discogs.
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17. Juli 2021 · Big Joe Williams is not the biggest name in the history of the blues but he is an important name. He bridges the period from the early delta blues to the blues/folk revival of the 1960s. He was a mentor in the early 30s to Muddy Waters and in the early 60s to Bob Dylan.
- Ian Lomax
On this edition of Riverwalk Jazz, the great jazz vocalist Joe Williams, a man whose name is practically synonymous with the blues, joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on stage at The Landing in a broadcast recorded live in 1994.
Er galt als einer der streitlustigsten, gleichzeitig aber begabtesten Musiker des Delta Blues. In seinen jungen Jahren war Big Joe Williams ständig unterwegs, um zwischen New Orleans und Chicago den Blues zu spielen, wo immer dies möglich war. In den 1930ern verbrachte er einige Zeit im Gefängnis.
Williams won the Best Jazz Vocal Performance Grammy Award for his LP Nothin' but the Blues in 1984; it was also the winning Traditional Blues Album in the Blues Music Awards of the Blues Foundation in the following year.
Big Joe Williams. Even in a blues world populated by colorful and idiosyncratic characters, Big Joe Williams loomed as one of the most inimitable – and irascible. Born to ramble, he left his Crawford, Mississippi, home at age 12 or his early teens, worked across the South in levee camps, minstrel shows, and other settings, and spent most of ...
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