Big Joe Williams - Highway 49

[dvdsmlprstylr]

Guitar is similar to John Lee Hooker's Hobo blues at first and his voice is pretty similar to Muddy Waters.

Brill!

[Gluepack]

Beautiful. The noise he makes from that box is fabulous.

[MrLuismu2]

anybody knows how is big joe's guitar tuned??

[ultrasuede409]

now that was amazing

[xdmcpful]

Thanks for posting this great moment!

2 bucks guitar but huge music and feeling!

[rmurbach1961]

Anyone who can play a nine string guitar is very special indeed!

[goshdranitalex]

Pure true amazing music.

[rmurbach1961]

Highway 49 in Mississippi runs from Jackson all the way to the Delta. Big Joe is talking about taking that highway to try and get away from the bitch.

[xdmcpful]

@rmurbach1961 ...did you mean away from the Beach...just kidding ;-) !

[rmurbach1961]

@xdmcpful No beaches on the Delta or in Jackson, so yeah, I meant getting away from the bitch, LOL. I lived in Meridian, not far from Jackson, and many of those roadside juke joints were home away from home for a quite a few aspiring musicians back in the day!

[chapmanyasuki1]

Good music.

[wesrace1]

Man, thanks for the video. I got a chance to hang around Big Joe in the early 70's when he' hang out at Bob Koester's Jazz Record Mart in Chicago, Il.

[madFlam1]

this is it

[jbeng1953]

Way to go BIG JOE! What it is all about! You youngn's this is where you start. House of the blues!

[MrDaemonB]

I was at the Delta Blues museum down in Clarksdale Mississippi back in 1996 and they had that guitar on display

[garciahouse8]

o dislikes!

[beta757]

Ah yeah...........Da Blues is good for your soul.

[TheRackFishy]

Awesome 9 strings!!

[LTmattYT]

sounds like hobo blues, john lee hooker.

or does that sound like this? lol, probably so.

[temriver]

Thank you for posting this incredible video. YouTube is the best. Every so often I come across a gem like this and think, "How else would we have seen this?"

[HueyLewisRocks]

Now that's delta blues.... love it!

[globeandri]

yeah!

[RichYan33]

The famous 9 string guitar!

[nocode911]

Born and raised on 49.....Still live here.

[deepwoodskentuckian]

good music, love it love it!

[nneebbtt]

Got me stumpin' right away!

[metalpiccio]

very very good

[akulaterer]

god bless u man!!

[binoyrakesh]

respect. if god grants me one wish, ill ask him to bring big joe back alive right now.!!!!

[JimmyGuitarist]

excellant

[TheSunRecords]

Big Joe is one of my biggest blues heroes.

[dioisfreakinamazing6]

Yeah...highway 49 is some scary sh*t.

[sufinaga]

tears of the purest JOY!

[Baddoggone]

Big Joe was one of the greatest Delta Bluesmen I ever saw. Thanks for sharing this treasure.

[inikokir]

i took the hw49, one of the poorest and most frightening hways on earth. We drove at 7pm night time and it felt like 3am, like you were driving through somekind of underworld. We almost got robbed twice too. Scary ass shit

[dugitomi]

@inikokir not if you grew up there. suburbs scare me. how you know all the hiways on earth and the underworld? u been there? i had no problems on hiway 49 or 'center city' usa. same goes for Tokyo, but no guns here. it's safer. is 'almost robbed' like 'almost pregnant?' i got robbed as 7/11 cashier. i outran 3 guys one time, but maybe they just had a question. maybe people on 49 just wanted to share a smoke with you? it's southern hospitality. 3am is when the party starts. learn.

[fakename1314]

That is some sexy sliding there. 2 thumbs up.

[crazycuntryboy2]

AEWESOME!

[tank5450]

Man-this is amazing. Don't let this video die!

[HengistTheGreat]

@tank5450

Don't let it die, but feel free to make some more effort with the info.

[ominousmaximus]

@tank5450 amen

[familiamendo]

fantastic

[OsvaldoPaese]

I love it