BIG JOE WILLIAMS: Four Classic Albums (2 CDS)

AVID Roots continues with its Four Classic Albums series with a re-mastered 2CD set release from Big Joe Williams complete with original artwork, liner notes and personnel details.“Piney Wood Blues”; “Tough Times”; “Blues On Highway 49” and “Mississippi Big Joe Williams and his Nine String Guitar”Born in Mississippi in 1903, Delta blues singer Big Joe Williams was perhaps rather overlooked amongst many of the famous bluesmen who came out of the delta in the 1920s and 1930s. Famed for his unique home-made reconstructed 9 string guitar and assortment of home made or home found percussion instruments, Big Joe must have made quite a sight to his audience with swinging beer cans and pie plates dangling around his acoustic guitar and struggling to compete with his extraordinary voice. Big Joe was the epitome of the travelling blues man having left home as a very young man to earn a living busking and playing wherever he could make a buck, from pool halls to bars and taverns and jook joints.