Big Joe Williams: Blues on Highway 49-1960s Delmark Mono 12" Record
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1960s Delmark "4242 No. Lincoln" Address on Back Cover Mono Release of Composer/Guitarist/Pioneering Blues Vocalist Big Joe Williams Entitled Blues on Highway 49 Featuring Big Joe Williams and His Nine-String Guitar, Album Production & Supervision by Robert G. Koester, Recording by Stu Black at Hall Recording Studios, Cover Photo by Raeburn Fleurlage - "Big Joe Williams may have been the most cantankerous human being who ever walked the earth with guitar in hand. At the same time, he was an incredible blues musician: a gifted songwriter, a powerhouse vocalist, and an exceptionally idiosyncratic guitarist. Despite his deserved reputation as a fighter (documented in Michael Bloomfield's bizarre booklet Me and Big Joe), artists who knew him well treated him as a respected elder statesman. Even so, they may not have chosen to play with him, because -- as with other older Delta artists -- if you played with him you played by his rules. As protégé David "Honeyboy" Edwards described him, Williams in his early Delta days was a walking musician who played work camps, jukes, store porches, streets, and alleys from New Orleans to Chicago. He recorded through five decades for Vocalion, OKeh, Paramount, Bluebird, Prestige, Delmark, and many others. According to Charlie Musselwhite, he and Big Joe kicked off the blues revival in Chicago in the '60s. When appearing at Mike Bloomfield's "blues night" at The Fickle Pickle, Williams played an electric nine-string guitar through a small ramshackle amp with a pie plate nailed to it and a beer can dangling against that. When he played, everything rattled but Big Joe himself. The total effect of this incredible apparatus produced the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music one would likely ever hear. Anyone who wants to learn Delta blues must one day come to grips with the idea that the guitar is a drum as well as a melody-producing instrument. A continuous, African-derived musical tradition emphasizing percussive techniques on stringed instruments from the banjo to the guitar can be heard in the music of Delta stalwarts Charley Patton, Fred McDowell, and Bukka White. Each employed decidedly percussive techniques, beating on his box, knocking on the neck, snapping the strings, or adding buzzing or sizzling effects to augment the instrument's percussive potential. However, Big Joe Williams, more than any other major recording artist, embodied the concept of guitar-as-drum, bashing out an incredible series of riffs on his G-tuned nine-string for over 60 years." - "One of Big Joe Williams's better releases, Blues on Highway 49 is a tense, gritty set of roadhouse blues. Williams's stinging playing and singing brings out the best in such songs as "Tiajuana Blues" and "45 Blues" -- he shows exactly how Delta blues could be updated." - Stunning Personnel for the Duo Features Legendary Composer Big Joe Williams on 9-String Guitar and the Brilliant Ransom Knowling on Bass! - Selections on Side A Are the Howlin' Wolf/Big Joe Williams Classic Highway 49, Traditional Compositions Poor Beggar, Blues Left Texas, #13 Highway & the Big Joe Williams Penned Down in the Bottoms, Overhaul Your Machine - Tracks for SIde B Consist of the P.D. Scotts Pipe Band Song that Things in Town, the Big Joe Williams Penned Walk on Little Girl and Traditional Compositions Tiajuana Blues, 45 Blues, Arkansas Woman, Four Corners of the World - Sealed Copy, Mono Recording, Promo Hole Punch, Product Code DL-604 - California Residents Add 9.75% Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -
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