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American guitarist, recording artist, singer and songwriter

Musical artist

Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982)^[2] was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter,^[1] notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar.

Performing over five decades, he recorded the songs "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Crawlin' King Snake", and "Peach Orchard Mama", among many others, for various record labels.^[3] He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame on October 4, 1992.^[4]

The blues historian Barry Lee Pearson (Sounds Good to Me: The Bluesman's Story, Virginia Piedmont Blues) described Williams's performance:

When I saw him playing at Mike Bloomfield's "blues night" at the Fickle Pickle, Williams was playing an electric nine-string guitar through a small ramshackle amp with a pie plate nailed to it and a beer can dangling against that.

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