Big Joe Williams

Michael Gray has posted a great photograph of Big Joe Williams

(Photographer not known)

Baby Please Don't Go (1941)

Later recording

1935 recording

TV recording

Another version

Some other fine interpretations

Fred McDowell

I interviewed Big Joe in 1969. He talked about the death of Bessie Smith.

Here is an extract from the recording.

I'll spare you my version of "Baby, Please Don't Go".

(Listen to a much more professional, in-depth interview on related topics, with saxophonist Big Jay McNeely)