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Southside blues


Reviews (2)


Record collector

471 (2017 August)

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Kris Needs

471 (2017 August)

"On this recording Joe is supposedly backed by Washboard Sam, Sunnyland Slim and Bloomfield but the driving rattle of his unique, alien sound dominates on 44 Blues, Terraplane Blues and Baby Please Don't Go. Writing in his 1984 book Sounds So Good To Me: The Bluesman's Story, Barry Lee Pearson remembers such a performance as "the most buzzing, sizzling, African-sounding music I have ever heard." Here's some priceless supporting evidence".


Jazz Weekly

d. 3. July 2017

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George W. Harris

d. 3. July 2017

"Williams attacks the strings as he shouts out "Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out" and gets vicious with acoustic power chords on "Put On Your Nitecap Baby" Some hot folk picking takes you to a back porch with red clay on "Going Away Won't Be Back Till Fall" while Chicago Blues close out the evening on an electric "Terraplane Blues." Wonderfully visceral".