Big Joe Williams - Hand Me Down My Old Walking Stick
I found it in a cutout bin either when I was in high school or shortly thereafter. Most of it is just Williams and his acoustic guitar, playing some solid country blues. The liner note state that Williams was given a bottle of bourbon and some ginger ale and that he knocked out the album in a short amount of time. I'm surprised such an admission would be made. But Williams sounds in control throughout. And as a friend of mine said when I played the album for him: "I can see where The Rolling Stones got a lot of their licks."
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