Big Joe Williams

1903 – 1982 (79)

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THE NINE-STRING BLUESMAN WHO WOULDN'T GO

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Big Joe Williams

1903 – 1982 (79)

← Big Joe Turner Big Mama Thornton →

THE NINE-STRING BLUESMAN WHO WOULDN'T GO

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Albums

Piney Woods Blues (1958)

Back to the Country (1964)

Nine String Guitar Blues (1971)

Other Works

Piney Woods Blues (1958)

Tough Times (1960)

Blues for 9 Strings (1962)

Blues on Highway 49 (1962)

Three Kings And The Queen (1964)

Studio Blues (1964)

Back to the Country (1964)

Big Joe Williams (1968)

Hell Bound & Heaven Sent (1968)

Thinking of What They Did to Me (1969)

Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick (1969)

Crawling King Snake (1970)

Nine String Guitar Blues (1971)

The Legacy of the Blues

Volume 6 (1972)

Don't Your Plums Look Mellow Hanging on Your Tree (1974)

Blues From the South Side (1981)

Stavin' Chain Blues (1991)

The Final Years (1994)

Mississippi's Big Joe Williams and His Nine-String Guitar (1995)

Have Mercy! (1996)

No More Whiskey (1998)

Going Back to Crawford (1999)

Styles

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Image Credits

1,414 artist portraits across 5 genres (Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues, Folk). 1,363 sourced from Wikipedia (Creative Commons / Public Domain), 50 from Deezer (promotional artwork).

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