Big Joe Williams At Gerde's Folk City NYC 1962

Big Joe Williams
at Folk City

- Mink Coat Blues
- Burned Child Is Scared Of Fire
- Baby, I Ain't Gonna Let You Go
- Trouble Gonna Take Me To My Grave
- Bugle Blues
- Just Wanna Be Your Man

- I'm Gonna Do It This Time
- She's Doggin' Me
- How Do You Wnat Your Tollin' Done
- I Can't Sign My Name
- Bottle Up And Go
- I'm Tired Woman
rec. live at Gerde's Folk City, New York City; Febr. 26, 1962
I bought a copy of this LP in 1967. It is one of my favorite albums of Big Joe Williams. Live At Gerde's Folk City. Bob Dylan was around Gerde's Folk City in 1962 and told the owner to book Big Joe. Dylan had recorded with Big Joe Williams and Victoria Spivey in 1962 on her label Spivey Records. The Lp is called Three Kings And The Queen.

Bob Dylan and Big Joe Williams With Victoria Spivey and John Hammond NYC 1962

Left to right in the above photo: Bob Dylan, Victoria Spivey, John Hammond, and Big Joe Williams. From the album Three Kings and a Queen. Photo taken March 1962.
Here is some more of the mixing of fact and fiction about Bob Dylan and Big Joe Williams.
http://www.expectingrain.com/dok/who/w/williamsbigjoe.html

Also take a look at this. Click on Enter to see some of the Spivey Records:
http://www.spiveyrecords.com/
Click on the names Bob Dylan and Big Joe Williams in the label box below to see my other posts about each of them.

Big Joe Williams BABY PLEASE DON'T GO

These are photos made in Crawford,
Mississippi after a funeral. Big Joe came by and played for us after the
wake. These photos were taken on the back porch of Mrs. Carrie Lee
Harvey's house. That is me and my wife Rachel and Big Joe Williams. April 18, 1975.
Click on all the photos to enlarge them. Check out his amp sitting in the chair and the electrical cord that goes up to a light socket.


Here is a picture of Big Joe Williams sitting in his car from 1978 and another of the pictures on the back porch in Crawford taken on April 18, 1975.

That is me in the photo above with Big Joe Williams and the 60 pound watermelon. We were in Crawford, Miss. on our way to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to do some recordings. It was late August 1978.

Here is Big Joe Williams singing his famous song BABY PLEASE DON'T GO. Big Joe Williams was born on my grandfather Stewart's farm in Crawford, Mississippi. I first met him in 1975 in Crawford and then later in 1978 went with him and my friend George Cummings(of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show)to Muscle Shoals, Alabama where they did some recordings. Baby Please Dont Go is apparently the most recorded of all blues songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxLNaAYu5k

And here is another video of Big Joe singing Highway 49. This video was made in Crawford, Miss. outside his trailer. It was made around 1978.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWpqrKNgsNA&feature=related

This is the Wikipedia entry on Big Joe Williams. It contains good biographical information.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_Williams
  
Big Joe Williams was a early influence on Bob Dylan. They knew each other in the early 1960s. Bob Dylan names Big Joe Williams as an influence on the back of his first or second album. Dylan also got Big Joe booked in Gerde's Folk City in 1962.

Extra Added Attraction: Here is a video of Willie Dixon doing I'M NERVOUS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQrQLvBQax0&feature=PlayList&p=EAD61F1146178EF5&index=0&playnext=1