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„Meet Me Around The Corner"
(Williams)
Big Joe Williams (born Joseph Lee Williams, October 16, 1903 - December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues musician and songwriter, known for his characteristic style of guitar-playing, his nine-string guitar, and his bizarre, cantankerous personality
Born in Crawford, Mississippi, as a youth Williams began wandering across the United States busking and playing stores, bars, alleys and work camps. In the early 1920s he worked in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels revue, and recorded with the Birmingham Jug Band in 1930 for the Okeh label.
In 1934 he was in St. Louis, where he met record producer Lester Melrose who signed him to a contract with Bluebird Records in 1935. He stayed with Bluebird for ten years, recording such blues hits as "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1935) and "Crawlin' King Snake" (1941), both songs later covered by many other performers. He also recorded with other blues singers, including John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson, Robert Nighthawk and Peetie Wheatstraw.
Williams remained a noted blues artist in the 1950s and 1960s, with his guitar style and vocals becoming popular with folk-blues fans. He later recorded for the Trumpet, Delmark, Prestige and Vocalion labels, among others. He became a regular on the concert and coffeehouse circuits, touring Europe and Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and performing at major U.S. festivals.
Recorded:
Chicago, March 27. 1941
Joe Williams (g) (vcl), William Mitchell (imb)
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@Gibson0918 - Better late than never.
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@1946hastings i thank god they made music like this. the blues
is so soulfull i love it from bbking to robert johnson ray charles big bill broonzy. an im 27 music nowadays is rubbish. true music lives through the ages.
"blues is the roots everything else is the fruits".
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@1946hastings You gotta give your son a good disciplinin' in the blues, worked on me
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my son says thank god they don't make songs like this now, he only 23 me in my sixtey's love the music well done, from kelvin in istead rise kent england its brilliant
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the man with the 9 strings guitar!!
amazing!!
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i never heard the name until today
now.he made a good music.
god bless him.
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OH MY GOD I can't believe I just now discoverd this guy :| He is amazing.
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Yeah!
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muy bueno esto!!!
anda volando el loco
3 years ago 2
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Yessssssss!!!
bluesgirl62 3 years ago 5
I can't really believe that she necessarily "wrote" it, seeing as baby please don't go is a combination of several other songs from the early 20th century and prior.
aacotter 3 years ago 3