Big Joe Williams News

Big Joe Williams and his nine-string guitar doing "Baby Please Don't Go." Some more info on Joe and his guitar: He played with picks both on his thumb and index finger, plus his guitar was very heavily modified.

These rare early recordings of the great blues guitarist and singer Lightnin' Hopkins were recorded in Houston between 1947 - 1950 and remastered from acetates and 78 rpm records in the early 1990's. Capturing Hopkins in his purest form, mostly unaccompanied with just his wry voice and guitar, this makes for a fascinating listen.

Kevin Belford will be at Left Bank Books today, October 13, 7pm, for a talk and book signing of his Devil at the Confluence , the story of St.

Of course Mark Lawson is correct to point out how risible it can be to censor photographs of famous people holding cigarettes, such as Jacques Chirac, the composer Rachmaninov or the interviewer Lynn Barber but he surely underestimates the influence of role models on how people behave.

"A n incredibly gifted out-of-the-box guitarist, excellent songwriter and rich voiced singer, Big Joe Williams was also a fighter, and one of the more idiosyncratic, temperamental characters to ever play the blues.

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