Williams, Joseph Leon Jody
(*1935)
Williams, Joseph Leon Jody 3 February 1935; Mobile, AL One of Chicago’s first great electric blues guitarists, Jody Williams played harmonica as a child but switched to guitar in his teens after meeting Bo Diddley at a talent show and hanging out with Muddy Waters in clubs. Influenced by the single-string solos of T-Bone Walker and B. B. King and the jazzy sophistication of Charles Brown’s guitarist Johnny Moore, the versatile Williams became a Chess studio guitarist. While leading Howlin’…