‘The Audition Tapes’: A friend remembers Black Prairie blues legend Big Joe Williams with original recordings
“There’s a funny story about that … ” Blewett Thomas said more than once during a recent afternoon of reminiscing about his old friend, Big Joe Williams. There would be. Stories, that is. Gleaned from 1975, when a younger Blewett drove from Columbus to Crawford to seek out one of the few living purveyors of old country and delta blues, to 1982, when Williams died.