78 RPM BLUES JOHNNY WILLIAMS PRISON BOUND BUMBLE BEE BLUES SWING TIME LABEL
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YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN ORIGINAL BLUES RECORDING. 10 INCH DIAMETER 78RPM
WRITTEN AND RECORDED BY JOHNNY WILLIAMS.
PRODUCED AND RECORDED ON THE SWING TIME LABEL .266A/266B 718-A/718-B.
RECORD MANUFACTURED IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA.
SIDE A ...BUMBLE BEE BLUES.
SIDE B....PRISON BOUND.
CONDITION IS GOOD+ WITH A FEW SCRATCHES (SEE PICTURES) .
NOTE THIS RECORD HAS BEEN PLAYED AND TESTED ALL THE WAY AND PLAYS WELL FOR IT'S AGE.
DON'T WANT TO WAIT USE THE BUY-IT-NOW AND I WILL SHIP IT THE SAME DAY!
Johnny Williams (May 15, 1906 – March 6, 2006) was an American blues guitar player and singer based in Chicago, who was one of the first of the new generation of electric blues players to record after World War II. Williams was born in Alexandria, Louisiana, to parents who were both musicians.[1] He was raised in Houston, Texas, and moved to Belzoni, Mississippi, to live with his uncle Anthony Williams after his mother died around 1917. There he met local musicians such as the Chatmon brothers and Charley Patton (with whom his uncle played) and learned to play the guitar. Moving to Chicago in 1938,[1] he worked at first in the defense industry and later for Oscar Mayer.[3] By 1943 he was playing in clubs in the evenings while working as a meat packer in the daytime.[2] He worked with Theodore "Hound Dog" Taylor around 1944.[1] In 1945 he lost the end of a finger in a meat grinder and gave up playing the guitar for a year, until he saw Blind Arvella Gray, who was missing two fingers from his left hand, playing on Maxwell Street, and learned to play the guitar without the missing finger.He acquired the nickname Uncle Johnny, by which he was known among his blues associates for the rest of his life.After 1953 Williams continued to work with Hound Dog Taylor and others,[1] but he stopped playing blues in 1959 after a religious conversion and joined the Baptist church,[3] becoming a deacon in the early 1960s.[1]
Williams died in Chicago on March 6, 2006,[3] at the age of 99.
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