Big Joe Williams – Classic Delta Blues (1966)

01 - Rollin' And Tumblin'		play
02 - Hellhound On My Trail
03 - Bird's Nest Bound
04 - Crossroads Blues
05 - Special Rider
06 - Pony Blues
07 - Pea Vine Special
08 - Walking Blues
09 - Dirt Road Blues
10 - Banty Rooster Blues
11 - Terraplane Blues			play
12 - Jinx Blues

Solo Performer: Big Joe Williams

Recorded in Chicago, July 29 and September 26, 1964.

Classic Delta Blues collects 12 cuts Big Joe Williams cut in 1964. For these recordings, he played a standard six-string guitars instead of hauling out his custom nine-string and the effects are pleasant, but not revelatory. ---Thom Owens

Like Robert Johnson, his Mississippi Delta contemporary, singer-guitarist Joseph Lee Williams was a fierce, wonderfully idiosyncratic country blues stylist. The composer of countless tunes, including the now-standard "Baby, Please Don't Go," Big Joe instead concentrated on personalized renditions of numbers associated with other Delta blues giants as Johnson, Charley Patton, and Skip James at this stunning 1964 session. What also makes it extraordinary is that he played a standard six-string guitar rather than the homemade nine-string model he favored during that period.

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