WILLIAMS, JOE LEE (BIG JOE
or PO' JOE
). Bluesman ( in Crawford, Mississippi). He played homemade flutes and guitars as a child and grew up in a blues environment. He began singing and playing blues guitar professionally at an early age, wandering from place to place and settling for short periods in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and West Helena, Arkansas. He toured with the Birmingham Jug Band in F. S. Wolcott's
Rabbit Foot Minstrels
, which at that time featured , which at that time featured ...