Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go: The Collection 1935-62 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Big Joe Williams - Baby Please Don't Go The Collection 1935-62 / Big Joe Williams was a Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist famous for the distinctive sound of his unique nine-string guitar, as well as for recording classic songs like InchBaby Please Don't GoInch and InchCrawling King SnakeInch. His career was remarkable for the fact that he recorded through every decade from the mid-1930s into the'70s, although his periods of active recording were somewhat erratic, while he maintained a constant round of 'live' performing. This great-value 115-track 5-CD set comprises most of the A & B sides of his releases on the Bluebird, Columbia, Bullet, Trumpet & VeeJay labels from 1935 to 1957, plus EP titles and the titles from his albums InchPiney Woods BluesInch, InchA Man Sings The Blues, InchTough TimesInch, InchBlues On Highway 69Inch, InchNine-String Guitar BluesInch and InchMississippi's Big Joe Williams & his Nine-String GuitarInch from 1957 through to 1962. It includes recordings where he is accompanied by noted contemporaries like Sonny Boy Williamson, Ransom Knowling, Robert Lee McCoy, Judge Riley and others. He was one of the most impressive blues performers of his era who inspired many artists of later years like Bob Dylan, and this substantial collection offers an entertaining showcase for a highly original and influential artist. Album Tracks 1. Little Leg Woman 2. Somebody's Been Borrowing That Stuff 3. Providence Help the Poor People 4. My Grey Pony 5. Highway 49 Blues 6. Stepfather Blues 7. Wild Cow Blues 8. Baby Please Don't Go 9. Worried Man Blues 10. Stack O Dollars 11. Brother James 12. I Know You Gonna Miss Me 13. I Won't Be in Hard Luck Any More 14. Rootin' Ground Hog 15. Crawling King Snake 16. Meet Me Around the Corner 17. I'm Getting Wild About Her 18. Peach Orchard Mama 19. Please Don't Go 20. Br