Jimmy Lee Williams - Rock On Away From Here

Size: 80,1 MB
Time: 34:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s vinyl
Released: 1988
Styles:
Art: Front, back

1. Hoot Your Belly, Give Your Backbone Ease (2:48)
2. Pretty Baby Vocals – Willie C. Williams (2:52)
3. What Make My Grandpa Love My Grandma So (3:55)
4. Rock On Away From Here (3:02)
5. When You Hear Me Howling (3:10)
6. See Here, Woman (1:59)
7. Have You Ever Seen Peaches Grow On A Sweet Potato Vine (4:09)
8. I Got To Know (2:06)
9. Baby, Baby, Please Don't You Leave Me Now (3:06)
10. Whiskey Headed Woman (3:24)
11. Little Boy Blue (2:01)
12. What Make My Grandpa Love My Grandma So (2:19)

I was born in 1925, the 25th of July in Worth County, Georgia. Lived here all my life. My parents did farm as far as I can remember. Boy, we had a time! At that time I used to play harmonica on a rack, but I quit doing it, it took too much wind. I was smoking and I got short-winded. It takes a whole lot of wind to blow that harp. I first started playing electric guitar in 1957. Before that I was playing a regular guitar, but they was good guitars, you know. Man I worked with sold me an electric guitar for seventy-five dollars. Boy, I played that, we had to run people away from the house. When you had a party they stayed up till the break of day. They stayed as long as the guitar stayed there, they wouldn’t go. Oh boy we had a time! Nobody playing but me and my baby-brother. I wish he was here now. Boy, I wish we could play together again. He always says he will come home but he never comes. I’m about five years older than him so he did come up right behind me and when he got old enough he got to playing too. I haven’t’ seen him in fifteen years but we played with one another on the phone to see how good we are. He’s still good. A fellow had both of us one night, he said he had half a gallon of liquor. And he said we played so good he didn’t know which one to give it to and he gave ups both half a gallon. I been farming on my own for six years now, soybeans, peanuts and watermelon. As far as money goes I was better off when I was working for somebody else. But even when I ain’t got no money, I maybe got but five cents but if I am ready to go somewhere I can go. I got gas in all them cars out there and in the truck and everyone of them can crank up and go. We ain’t got no fine clothes, nothing like that, but that don’t mean nothing, you know, riding in a bunch of fine clothes. Having something to eat and a dollar or two in your pocket. That’s the way it is with us, if we have to go to the doctor or something else, we get in our old car and take off, go anywhere, and don’t have to worry nobody about it. That’s what I love and work hard for.

Rock On Away From Here MP3

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Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 36:21
Size: 83.2 MB
Styles: Juke joint blues
Year: 2004
Art: Front

[3:58] 1. What Make Grandpa Love My Grandma So
[2:47] 2. Hoot Your Belly
[1:59] 3. See Here Woman
[4:15] 4. Have You Ever Seen Peaches
[1:43] 5. Jimmy Lee's Frolic
[3:03] 6. Rock On Away From Here
[3:11] 7. When You Hear Me Howling
[2:57] 8. Pretty Baby
[1:59] 9. Little Boy Blue
[2:11] 10. Step It Up And Go
[2:04] 11. I Got To Know
[3:27] 12. Whiskey Headed Woman
[2:41] 13. You Got My Money

It's fair to say that Jimmy Lee Williams isn't a polished bluesman. He'll never be B.B. King. But that's fine. On these tracks recorded between 1977 and 1982 at his home in Porlan, GA, he serves up a mess of raw blues with just his voice and guitar. While not a great player, he uses the instrument effectively to back himself, behind a slightly gravelly voice. And what you get is the blues as you'd hear it in the country, at the house parties and dances that still go on. While the songs are all supposedly traditional (some well known, like "Step It Up and Go," for example), several have very individual touches, while a few others are cobbled together with verses taken from the deep general well of the blues. But this isn't so much about the material as the performances. There's a warm spontaneity about Williams, as if these were all first takes, pieces he'd just remembered and dusted off for these recordings. And that's what makes this record special; you feel like you're eavesdropping on something private, almost intimate, rather than a big recording session. It holds the same appeal as the best of the Alan Lomax field recordings. So what if Williams isn't the very best blues musician you've ever heard, not another Robert Johnson or Muddy Waters. He's himself, with his own things to say, and he says them very well indeed. ~Chris Nickson

Hoot Your Belly mc
Hoot Your Belly zippy

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