Big Joe Williams Mississippi Blues Festival 1980

Here is something on the origin of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington,D.C. Big Joe Williams was one of the performers at the 1976 festival which lasted 12 weeks during the  USA Bicentennial celebration.
http://www.folklife.si.edu/center/legacy/morris.aspx
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