Wednesday, 16 October 2013
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)
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