Big Joe Williams
About the artist
Big Joe Williams (Joseph Lee Williams, Crawford, Mississippi, October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over four decades, he recorded such songs as "Baby Please Don't Go", "Crawlin' King Snake" and "Peach Orchard Mama" for a variety of record labels, including Bluebird, Delmark, Okeh, Prestige and Vocalion. Williams was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.
Top songs
- Baby Please Don't Go
- Baby, Please Don't Go
- Peach Orchard Mama
- Stepfather Blues
- Highway 49
- Providence Help the Poor People
- Brother James
- Wild Cow Blues
- Meet Me Around the Corner
- Don't Want No Big Fat Woman
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- Crawlin' King Snake
- Rollin' And Tumblin'
- Sloppy Drunk Blues
- I know you gonna miss me
- Rootin' Ground Hog
- Stack O' Dollars
- Worried Man Blues
- Terraplane Blues
- Don't You Leave Me Here
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out
- Please don't go
- Throw a Boogie Woogie
- Jinx Blues
- Little Leg Woman
- Sinking Blues
- North Wind Blues
- She Left Me A Mule To Ride
- Sugar Mama
- I'm Getting Wild About Her
- Hellhound On My Trail
- Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff
- Little Annie Mae
- Bye Bye Baby Blues
- 49 highway blues
- Delta Blues
- Break 'em on down
- Levee Break Blues
- Nobody Knows When You're Down
- Baby Please Don’t Go
- Back Home Blues
- Hang It Up On The Wall
- Whistling Pines
- Someday Baby
- Christmas Blues
- His Spirit Lives On
- Stack Of Dollars
- I Have No Friends
- Down In The Bottoms
- Blues Left Texas
- Mean Mistreater
- Dirt Road Blues
- Poor Beggar
- That Thing's In Town
- Walk On, Little Girl
- Vitamin a
- Whistlin' Pines
- I Won't Be In Hard Luck No More
- Razor Sharp Blues
- Overhaul Your Machine
- Four Corners of the World
- Hellbound On My Trial
- Shake Your Boogie
- King Biscuit Stomp
- When I First Left Home
- My Grey Pony
- Goin' Away, Won't Be Back Till Fall
- Stack O'Dollars
- 44 Blues
- Oh Baby
- Crawling King Snake
- Somebody's Been Borrowingthat Stuff
- Put on Your Nightcap Baby
- Crossroads Blues
- Don't Leave Me Here
- Wild Cow Moan
- What She Need With A Rooster
- Can't Listen No More
- Indiana Woman Blues
- I Got a Bad Mind
- 45 Blues
- Somebody's been worryin'
- Saturday Night Women
- Mellow Peaches
- Nobody knows you when your down and out
- Ride in My New Car
- Arkansas Woman
- Sugar Diabetes Blues
- Somebody's Been Fooling #1
- Tiajuana Blues
- Trouble Gonna Take Me To My Grave
- Big Roll Blues
- Chain Gang Blues
- Stool Pigeon Blues
- Juanita
- Banty Rooster Blues
- Good Morning Little School Girl
- I Done Stop Hollering
- Pea Vine Special
- I Got the Best King Biscuit
- Special Rider
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