BIG JOE WILLIAMS: BJW and the Stars of Mississippi Blues featuring Robert Petway, Tommy McClennan, Sonny Boy Williamson, Willie 'Poor Boy' Lofton, Henry Townsend and David 'Honey Boy' Edwards. [JSP]

(born October 16, 1903, Crawford. Miss.; died December 17, 1982, Macon, Ga.)
Big Joe Williams, a Mississippi Delta blues guitarist and singer, began his recording career in the 1930s with the Bluebird label and continued making records and performing right up until his death in 1982. He was best known for his leathery vocals and the full-bodied sound of his nine-string guitar, both of which reflected a life of hoboing through the South, hopping freights, spending time in jail, playing juke joints, and maintaining a fiercely independent blues spirit. Williams was also a competent songwritter; he penned the blues classic ''(Baby) Please Don't Go,'' which has been covered by countless blues and blues-rock artists.
Williams left Mississippi as a youth to travel through the South, playing levee and lumber camps. In the early 1920s he worked with the Birmingham Jug Band in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels revue and recorded with the group in 1930 for the Okeh label. Williams epitomized the travelling bluesman. He worked for spare change of food, he slept in railroad cars, and he wandered from town to town in the 1920s and early 1930s playing and singing CHARLEY PATTON -- inspired country blues. After Williams wound up in St. Louis sometime in 1934, he performed with his cousin J.D. Short, a fellow blues musician, at house parties and clubs.
Through Short, Williams met record producer Lester Melrose of Bluebird Records, who signed him to a recording contract in 1935. For ten years Williams recorded for the label. ''(Baby) Please Don't Go'' was a hit in 1935; his 1941 version of ''Crawlin' King Snake'' was also a popular record. During this time Williams performed and recorded with a number of prominent bluesmen, including harmonica player JOHN LEE ''SONNY BOY'' WILLIAMSON, guitarists CHARLEY JORDAN and ROBERT NIGHTHAWK, and pianist PEETIE WHEATSTRAW.
Williams remained a noted blues artist in the 1950s and 1960s; his rough-and-tumble guitar style and rugged vocals became popular with folk-blues fans. His repertoire, which included blues and folk tunes learned in all his years of travelling, enabled him to continue recording at a time when the Chicago electric band sound dominated the blues. Williams cut material for the Trumpet, Cobra, Delmark, and Arhoolie labels and later for Testament and Bluesville, among others.
In the '60s Williams was a regular on the concert and coffeehouse circuits. He toured Europe with the American Folk Blues Festival package in 1968 and 1972 and performed at such major U.S. festivals as the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1969 and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1972. In 1974 he toured Japan. Despite his advancing age, Williams also managed to keep his recording career healthy. A number of William's albums were released on such labels as Storyville, Sonet, and Delmark in the late 1960s and 1970s. In addition, he appeared in blues documentaries like The Devil's Music -- A History of the Blues (1976) and Good Mornin' Blues (1978). Through it all, Williams kept the Delta blues tradition alive and was one of the genre's most engaging performers. Williams died in 1982. Ten years later he was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame. -- by Robert Santelli

Tracklisting
BIG JOE WILLIAMS
1. Little Leg Woman **(Unavailable)**
2. Somebody's Been Borrowing the Stuff
3. Providence Help the Poor People
4. 49 Highway Blues
5. My Grey Pony
6. Stepfather Blues
7. Baby Please Don't Go
8. Stack O' Dollars
9. Wild Cow Blues
10. Worried Man Blues
11. I Know You Gonna Miss Me
12. Rootin' Ground Hog
13. Brother James
14. I Won't Be in Hard Luck No More
15. Crawlin' King Snake
16. I'm Getting Wild About Her
17. Peach Orchard Mama
18. Meet Me Around the Corner
19. Throw A Boogie Woogie
20. North Wind Blues
21. Please Don't Go
22. Highway 49
23. Someday Baby
24. Break 'Em On Down
25. Drop Down Blues
26. Somebody's Been Worryin'
27. Wanita
28. Vitamin A
29. His Spirit Lives On
30. Baby Please Don't Go
31. Baby Please Don't Go (Alternate Take)
32. Stack O'Dollars
33. Mellow Apples
34. Wild Cow Moan
35. PVine Blues
36. Bad and Weakhearted Blues
37. King Biscuit Stomp
38. I'm A Highway Man
39. Banta Rooster Blues
40. Mean Step Father Blues
41. House Lady Blues
42. Don't You Leave Me Here
43. Jivin' Woman
44. She's a Married Woman
45. Mama Don't Allow Me
46. Delta Blues
47. Overhauling Blues
48. Whistling Pines
49. She Left Me A Mule
50. Bad Heart Blues
TOMMY McCLENNAN
51. You Can Mistreat Me Here
52. New 'Shake 'Em On Down
53. Bottle It Up and Go
54. Whiskey Head Woman
55. Brown Skin Girl
56. Cotton Patch Blues
57. Baby Don't You Want to Go
58. Baby, Please Don't Tell On Me
59. I'm Going Don't You Know
60. New Highway 51
61. She's Just Good Huggin' Size
62. My Little Girl
63. My Baby's Gone
64. It's Hard to Be Lonesome
65. My Baby's Doggin' Me
66. She's A Good Looking Mama
67. Whiskey Head Man
68. New Sugar Mama
69. Down to Skin And Bones Blues
70. Katy Mae Blues
71. Love With A Feeling
72. Drop Down Mama
73. Black Minnie
74. Elsie Blues
75. Des'e My Blues
76. Cross Cut Saw Blues (Take 1)
77. Cross Cut Saw Blues (Take 2)
78. Classy Mae Blues
79. You Can't Read My Mind
80. Travelin' Highway Man
81. Deep Blues Sea Blues
82. I'm A Guitar King
83. It's A Crying Pity
84. Mozelle Blues
85. Blues Trip Me This Morning
86. Mr. So And So Blues
87. Roll Me, Baby
88. I Love My Baby
89. Shake It Up and Go
90. Blue As I Can Be
91. Bluebird Blues
92. Bluebird Blues (Take 2)
93. Boogie Woogie Woman
ROBERT PETWAY
94. Catfish Blues
95. Ride' Em On Down
96. Rockin' Chair Blues
97. My Little Girl
98. Let Me Be Your Boss
99. Left My Baby Crying
100. Sleepy Woman Blues
101. Don't Go Down Baby
102. Bertha Lee Blues
103. Hollow Log Blues
104. In The Evening
105. My Baby Left Me
106. Cotton Pickin' Blues
DAVID 'HONEYBOY' EDWARDS
107. Roamin' and Ramblin' Blues
108. You Got to Roll (Levee Camp Song)
109. You Got to Roll
110. Water Coast Blues
111. Stagolee
112. Just A Spoonful
113. Spread My Raincoat Down
114. Hellatakin' Blues
115. Wind Howlin' Blues
116. Worried Life Blues
117. Tear It Down Rag
118. The Army Blues
WILLIE 'POOR BOY' LOFTON
119. It's Killin' Me
120. Poor Boy Blues
121. Jake Leg Blues
122. My Mean Baby Blues
123. Dirty Mistreater
124. Rainy Day Blues
125. Beer Garden Blues
126. Dark Road Blues

** I Have so many problems ripping and compacting this set. Unfortunately even using every good and reliable program is impossible to rip the track one of the CD 'A'... sorry

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