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Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982),[2] billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta bluesguitarist, singer and songwriter,[1] 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.[3] Williams was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.[4]

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  • Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982),[2] billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta bluesguitarist, singer and songwriter,[1] 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.[3] Williams was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.[4]
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  • Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982),[2] billed throughout his career as Big Joe Williams, was an American Delta bluesguitarist, singer and songwriter,[1] 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.[3] Williams was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.[4] Blues historian Barry Lee Pearson (Sounds Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story, Virginia Piedmont Blues) attempted to document the gritty intensity of the Williams persona in this description: "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".[5]
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