Big Joe Williams - 'Highway 49' live 1976

The great Big Joe Williams filmed outside his caravan in Crawford, Mississippi on the BBC series 'the Blues' presented by the British Blues legend Alexis Korner and first aired in 1979. Big Joe's playing his song Highway 49 later covered by the likes of Howlin Wolf, George Thorogood among countless others. Big Joe's first recording of the song dates back to February 25th, 1935 it was released in July 1935.
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"When I saw him playing at Mike Bloomfield's "blues night" at the Fickle Pickle, Williams was playing an electric nine-string guitar through a small ramshackle amp with a pie plate nailed to it and a beer can dangling against that. When he played, everything rattled but Big Joe himself. The total effect of this incredible apparatus produced the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music I have ever heard." - Blues historian Barry Lee Pearson
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[@zorroblusero]

Thank you, great work

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[@kurtzwar729]

Seminal blues by one of the best ever. Love his 9 string rig, taped pickup. Check out Ry Cooder's take on Big Joe Williams. National treasures both. RIP Big Joe Williams. Blues to the bone. Thanks.

[@johnhoffman3836]

Cheers from the Micronesia Blues Society on the island of Guam.
Long live Big Joe!

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