Big Joe Williams was one of the greatest and most reprsentative deep Mississippi guitar players This is a reissue for Delmark Records (and let me give my congratulations to Bob Koestler Delmark founder and owner, for fifty years of active business), and must be considered as something really exceptional that can help new generations to discover one of the most all time Delta blues talents The twenty songs included on the cd show the most creative hard Big Joe Williams face of the more than sixty years of performing and playing his blues from the most selected universities to the most horrible thirties juke-joints I repeat, twenty songs recorded on a favorable atmosphere to reflect the deep powerful strenght of the real original blues that comes directly from the heart and soul of a man who was born to live on blues