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Artist: Joe Lee Williams Label:   Trumpet Country: USA Catalogue: No. 169 Date: Jun 1953 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own, 1 Wants Price Guide: $76 » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Joe Lee Williams	Over Hauling Blues	J. Williams	Rate
B	Joe Lee Williams	Whistling Pines	J. Williams	Rate

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Joe Lee Williams & His 12 String Guitar
"Big Joe" Williams, vocals and guitar; T. J. Green, bass.
Recorded Dec 3, 1951, Cedars of Lebanon Club, Jackson, MS.

Cash Box, June 20, 1953, page 20 (Review)
Billboard, August 1, 1953, page 40 (Other Records Released This Week)

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fixbutte 27th Jun 2020		Joe Lee Williams, Delta blues singer and guitarist, is better known as Big Joe Williams. After many recordings for Bluebird and Columbia in the 1930s and '40s, he recorded eight sides for the Trumpet label in 1951, these two among them. As the mentions in the trade magazines suggest, this record was released only in mid-1953 though. From Trumpet Records (2004) by Marc Ryan, page 140: "... artists like Big Joe Williams were not selling to the degree they had a few years earlier. Big Joe's "Over Hauling Blues"/ "Whistling Pines" (Trumpet 169) received a favorable review in the June 20, 1953, issue of Cashbox, but sold poorly." Captions (from msbluestrail.org): Whistling Pines was Big Joe Williams’ pronunciation of Whispering Pines, a legendary Crawford roadhouse. Williams recorded the first of his several versions of this song for Trumpet Records in Jackson in 1951. Trumpet first advertised his “12 String” guitar, but corrected that to “9 String” on other releases.
BigBadBluesMan 25th Apr 2015
BigBadBluesMan 25th Apr 2015
peterh 18th Nov 2014		a) ACA 2126 b) ACA 2125

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