Big Joe Williams: Studio Blues-1964 Bluesville Blue Label 1st Pressing Mono LP
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1964 Prestige/Bluesville Blue Label with Silver Print First Pressing Mono Release of Composer/Master Guitarist/Blues Vocalist Big Joe Williams Entitled Studio Blues, Produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein, Recorded by Mel Kaiser, Liner Notes by David Mangurian - "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." - Sensational Personnel for the Trio Features Legendary Composer big Joe Williams on 9-String, 6-String, 12-String Guitars and Vocals, the Talented Larry Johnson on Mouthharp & the Great Willie Dixon on Bass! - Selections on Side A Are Original Joe Williams Compositions Levee Camp Blues, Low Down Dirty Shame and Traditional Songs Gambling Man, Ain't Gonna Rain no More, Feel So Good - Tracks for Side B Consist of the Traditional Prowling Ground Hog, the Joe Williams Penned Back Home Again, Traditional Songs Sugar Babe, Tell Me Mama & Original Joe Williams Composition Studio Blues - Used Copy, Cover Is Faded and Splotchy with a Light Surface Ring, Record Has some very Light Surface Wear but no Marks at All - Monophonic Recording, Product Code BV 1083 - California Residents Add 9.75% Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -
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