Blues for Aficionados

Big Joe Williams

BLUES ON HIGHWAY 49

Delmark    1992

Wiki:

Born in Oktibbeha County,[5] a few miles west of Crawford, Mississippi,[6] Williams as a youth began wandering across the United States busking and playing in stores, bars, alleys and work camps. In the early 1920s he worked in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels revue. He recorded with the Birmingham Jug Band in 1930 for Okeh Records.

During the early 1930s, Williams was accompanied on his travels through the Mississippi Delta by a young Muddy Waters. Williams recounted to Blewett Thomas, "I picked Muddy up in Rolling Fork when he was about 15. He went all 'round the Delta playin' harmonica behind me. But I had to put him down after awhile. All these women were comin' up to me and sayin', 'Oh. your young son is so nice!' See, I had to put Muddy down because he was takin' away my women."

Highway 49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-qSfOZtkS4

Blues Left Texas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idvU2gM7Gp4

Down In The Bottoms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Su-ZLxWqUw

Four Corners Of The World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYaewqzoBEQ

Tiajuana Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKMBo2jh8Fk

Cheers

Snooks Eaglin

SOUL'S EDGE

Black Top Records   1995

No notes.  Very good band!

Josephine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oiaYznZdoM

Thrill On The Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5TgDV7Ik3w

Answer Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8x-QZl5Xfg

Skinny Minnie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqi9dUJWnNc

Ling Ting Tong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyVUn5h6WM8

and 9 more!

Cheers

David "Honeyboy" Edwards

WHITE WINDOWS

Evidence Records    1993

wiki:
Edwards was born in Shaw, Mississippi.  He learned to play music from his father, a guitarist and violinist.  At the age of 14, he left home to travel with the bluesman Big Joe Williams, beginning life as an itinerant musician, which he maintained through the 1930s and 1940s. He performed with the famed blues musician Robert Johnson, with whom he developed a close friendship. Edwards was present on the night Johnson drank the poisoned whiskey that killed him, and his story has become the definitive version of Johnson's demise. Edwards also knew and played with other leading bluesmen in the Mississippi Delta, including Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, and Johnny Shines."


West Helena Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjiLY6GbOec

Build Myself a Cave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucBKPwQ0E6k

61 Highway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwtNBzKz-mc

Drop Down Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8aGBFMTe8g

Cheers

Big Joe Williams

CLASSIC DELTA BLUES

Milestone / Original Blues Classics    1964 / 1991

Notes: "Despite it being a music of intense individuality, of strong personal expression, the Blues is also a communal music...The creation of one particularly gifted Blues poet may even be assimilated into the body of traditional Blues, becoming a kind of cultural common property.  (Big Joe Williams' well known "Baby, Please Don't Go", for example, has found its way into the repertoire of virtually every Blues singer who has been active since Big Joe first recorded it!)"

Blues artists have taken what the Jazz folks call "quoting", to another level.   Same with Gospel.

Rollin' And Tumblin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIaGF_zps94

Terraplane Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAanLVzUrP0

Banty Rooster Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHIbQOv4eqo

Pea Vine Special
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoH69CWnuzg

Crossroads Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw_bbGsIA3Q

Cheers

Joe Williams

NOTHIN' BUT THE BLUES

Red Holloway(leader & tenor sax), Eddie Cleanhead Vinson(vocal & alto sax), Jack McDuff(organ & piano), Phil Upchurch(guitar), Ray brown(bass), Gerryck King(drums)
Delos Records   1983

Notes: "Overseas, Jazz is looked on and respected as part of our classical presentation.  So, recordings the first Jazz album on a prestigious American classical label like Delos is a giant step toward broadening our audience here in this country."

The Blues with Jazz band backing.  And, a guy who can sing.

Who She Do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jOiIxnEDs

Just a Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5_RVF9gMY

Going to Chicago Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcn3DsNTudA

Alright, Okay, You Win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGOvLtkmX0

Sent For You Yesterday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niE9YjJlVE4

Cheers