Big Joe Williams Back To The Country (blues)(mp3@320)[rogercc][h33t]

Big Joe Williams Back To The Country
Released: 1964/1994
Label: Testament Records
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Fellow Mississippians Jimmy Brown on fiddle and Willie Lee Harris on harmonica augment Big Joe's down-home Delta blues from the blues revival of the 70s.
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.

Tracklist :
01. Ain't Gonna Be Your Lowdown Dog (2:36)
02. Annie Mae (3:53)
03. You Can Stay Out (1:45)
04. Mean Backstabber (3:24)
05. Worry You Off My Mind (1:49)
06. Miss Ida B (2:38 )
07. Put On Your Nightcap (2:52)
08. Woody Woodpecker (2:17)
09. I Got My Ticket (3:28 )
10. Saturday Night Ball (3:11)
11. Shake Your Boogie (2:08 )
12. See See Rider (2:30)
13. Blues Everywhere I Go (4:13)
14. Worried And Lonesome (3:23)
15. My Black Woman (2:05)
16. The Moon Is Rising (2:28 )
17. Down The Line (2:40)
18. My Baby Left Me A Mule To Ride (2:53)
19. Desert Blues (1:45)
20. Breakdown (1:08 )
21. Goin' Back Home (2:20)