Terry 'Big T' Williams - Jump Back, Big T's In The House

Year: 2010
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:40
Size: 117,1 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Scans: Front, tray

1. The Night Doctor (5:38)
2. Bound For Clarksdale (3:37)
3. Booty Wild (4:48)
4. How I Got The Blues (4:23)
5. Change Must Come (4:22)
6. Dew Man (4:23)
7. Rollin' Stone/Catfish Blues (7:40)
8. Jump Back, Big T's In The House (4:03)
9. Riverside Hotel (4:41)
10. Devil In The Cottonfield (3:44)
11. Last Jelly Roll (3:16)

Terry “Big T” Williams has dedicated his life to his music. Born in Clarksdale in 1960, he spent his early years on a plantation in Farrell, Mississippi, hearing stories about Muddy Waters attending Sunday picnics in his grandmother’s yard. These influences, as well as the music he was hearing on the radio by Deltans such as B.B. King, had an impact on him at a very young age. At nine, Big T’s father gave him a guitar and so he took it upon himself to learn how to play. Eventually, Big T came under the tutelage of legendary blues educator Johnnie Billington

He was twelve years old when the Jelly Roll Kings (Big Jack Johnson, Frank Frost and Sam Carr) took him under their wing and eventually even took him on the road all over the world. But Big T knew he eventually wanted to front his own band, and over the years he has been with bands like The Creative Funk, The Stone Gas Band and Big T & The Family Band. Today, Big T and his Review Band play gigs all over, but he is especially fond of the ones in his own back yard. To him, Clarksdale is home. Williams' most recent recording is Meet Me in the Cotton Field, a collaboration with Clarksdale bassist and vocalist Wesley Jefferson, released in Spring 2007 on St. Louis-based Broke & Hungry Records.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

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Terry 'Big T' Williams & Wesley 'Junebug' Jefferson - Meet Me In The Cotton Field

Year: 2007
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:33
Size: 106,2 MB
Styles: Delta blues, juke joint blues
Scans: Full

1. Meet Me In The Bottom (1:43)
2. Pocketful Of Money (4:30)
3. CC Rider (3:19)
4. Incarcerated Blues (3:33)
5. The Wreck (7:12)
6. The Wolves Are Howling (3:50)
7. Let's Go Down To Red's (4:07)
8. Catfish Blues (7:24)
9. Meet In The Cotton Field (3:39)
10. Can't Be Satisfied (2:16)
11. Blues Is Like The River (3:55)

Clarksdale blues veterans Terry "Big T" Williams and Wesley "Junebug" Jefferson team up for CD of raw Delta Blues. Meet Me in the Cotton Field features a mix of a cappella field hollers, acoustic country blues and searing electric juke joint workouts.

The disc features tracks from two recording sessions held a year apart. The first session, held in late December 2005 at Jimbo Mathus’ Clarksdale recording studio (now located in Como, Mississippi), found the duo performing acoustic numbers ranging from harrowing originals, such as "Meet Me in the Cotton Field" and "The Wolves Are Howling", to blues standards like "Can’t Be Satisfied" and "Meet Me in the Bottom". The latter session, held New Year’s Day 2007, features Williams and Jefferson in raucous electric mode, ably supported by young Delta drumming phenom Lee Williams (no relation). Songs from this session approximate the ragged-but-right, heavily amplified style that the musicians bring to their live shows at Clarksdale jukes. Not coincidentally, the session took place at Red’s Lounge, a funky downhome juke where Williams and Jefferson frequently perform.

Meet Me in the Cotton Field represents the first widely available CD for either of Jefferson or Williams, but over the past several decades both men have developed reputations as must-see live acts in and around Clarksdale. Jefferson, the older of the two at 62, has been a mainstay of the Clarksdale blues scene since the 1960s. As a child, blues was a constant presence in his life. Born in rural Coahoma County, he was the son of sharecroppers who supplemented their income by running a country juke joint filled with gambling, whiskey, food and ­ always ­ blues. Growing up, he experimented with a homemade diddley bow constructed of broom wire nailed to a wall, but he eventually graduated to guitar, then drums and, eventually, bass. From the mid-1960s through today, Jefferson has played with nearly every major figure on the Clarksdale scene: Big Jack Johnson, Frank Frost, Sam Carr, Robert "Bilbo" Walker and James "Super Chikan" Johnson.

Beginning in the early 1970s, he also began occasionally collaborating with a young musician named Terry Williams, who had yet to acquire the nickname "Big T". Jefferson and his bandmates would frequently see the teenaged Williams peeking through the windows of Clarksdale’s famed Smitty’s Red Top Lounge. Although still a kid at the time, Jefferson says Williams was already "the baddest bass player around" when the two began playing together. Eventually Big T would become better known as a guitarist thanks to his lengthy apprenticeship in the band of the legendary Big Jack Johnson. Williams can be seen on film in Johnson’s band in the classic Robert Mugge film Deep Blues. Later he became a principal member of the now-defunct Stone Gas Blues Band. In the past decade, Williams has emerged as one of most fiery bandleaders in the Delta, known for his searing guitar playing and fierce vocals.

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