Scott Barretta investigates the recordings of Big Joe Williams in this week’s episode of Highway 61, including sessions with John Lee Williamson and Robert Nighthawk, Lightning Hopkins, and Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, and recordings for BlueBird Records, Trumpet, Delmark, Testament and other labels, plus Muddy Waters’ version of Big Joe’s classic “Baby Please Don’t Go.”
The John Sinclair Foundation Presents
BABY PLEASE DON’T GO
HIGHWAY 61 BLUES 27
Scott Barretta, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, 2007 [18131]
Big Joe Williams: Baby Please Don’t Go
Muddy Waters: Baby Please Don’t Go
Big Joe Williams: Wild Cow Blues
Big Joe Williams: Gonna Throw a Boogie Woogie
Sonny Boy Williamson: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Robert Lee McCoy: Prowling Nighthawk
Big Joe Williams: Rootin’ Groundhog
Big Joe Williams: Delta Blues
Big Joe Williams: Whispering Pines
Big Joe Williams: Mellow Peaches
Big Joe Williams: I’ve Been ‘Buked and I’ve Been Scorned
Big Joe Williams: A Man Amongst Men
Big Joe Williams: Watergate Blues
Big Joe Williams: You Gonna Need King Jesus On Your Bond
Big Joe Williams: This Little Light of Mine
Big Joe Williams: When the Saints Go Marching In
A JOINT PRODUCTION
Hosted by Scott Barretta for Radio Free Amstredam
Produced & recorded by Joe Yorke at the University of Mississippi
Post-production, editing & annotation by John Sinclair
Executive Producer: Steve Pfatt
© 2007, 2018 Scott Barretta. Used with permission.