There are two harmonica playing bluesmen known as Sonny Boy Williamson. The… Read Full Bio ↴There are two harmonica playing bluesmen known as Sonny Boy Williamson. They are colloquially referred to as Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny Boy Williamson II respectively, but are of no relation.
The two are easy to distinguish. Williamson I played the harmonica acoustically and was essentially a pre-War artist. Williamson II was entirely an electrified harpist, in the style of Little Walter, reflecting the advent of the jukebox and electrified instruments following World War II.
(Compare the albums Sonny Boy Williamson I ~~ Sonny Boy Williamson II)
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Sonny Boy Williamson I (30 March 1914 - 1 June 1948)
also known as John Lee Curtis Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, born in Jackson, Tennessee, whose first record Good Morning little School Girl was a hit in 1937. He was widely popular throughout the whole southeast of the U.S., and was practically synonymous with the blues harmonica for the next decade, making his a commonly used stage name by the time he was murdered in 1948. He is buried at the Old Blairs Chapel Church, south west of Jackson, Tennessee.
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Sonny Boy Williamson II (11 March 1908 - 25 May 1965) also known as Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, Little Boy Blue, The Goat and Footsie.
Aleck "Rice" Miller was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.
Born as Aleck Ford to Millie Ford on the Sara Jones Plantation in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, his date and year of birth are a matter of uncertainty. He claimed to have been born on December 5, 1899, but one researcher, David Evans, claims to have found census record evidence that he was born around 1912. His gravestone lists his date of birth as March 11, 1908.
He lived and worked with his sharecropper stepfather, Jim Miller, whose last name he soon adopted, and mother, Millie Ford, until the early 1930s. Beginning in the 1930s, he traveled around Mississippi and Arkansas and encountered Big Joe Williams, Elmore James and Robert Lockwood, Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, who would play guitar on his later Checker Records sides. He was also associated with Robert Johnson during this period. Miller developed his style and raffish stage persona during these years. Willie Dixon recalled seeing Lockwood and Miller playing for tips in Greenville, Mississippi in the 1930s. He entertained audiences with novelties such inserting one end of the harmonica into his mouth and playing with no hands.
In 1941 Miller was hired to play the King Biscuit Time show, advertising the King Biscuit brand of baking flour on radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas with Lockwood. It was at this point that the radio program's sponsor, Max Moore, began billing Miller as Sonny Boy Williamson, apparently in an attempt to capitalize on the fame of the well known Chicago-based harmonica player and singer John Lee Williamson (Sonny Boy Williamson I). Although John Lee Williamson was a major blues star who had already released dozens of successful and widely influential records under the name "Sonny Boy Williamson" from 1937 onward, Aleck Miller would later claim to have been the first to use the name, and some blues scholars believe that Miller's assertion he was born in 1899 was a ruse to convince audiences he was old enough to have used the name before John Lee Williamson, who was born in 1914 (this is made somewhat less likely, however, by the fact that Miller was certainly older than Williamson even if one does not accept the 1899 birthdate.) Whatever the methodology, Miller became commonly known as "Sonny Boy Williamson", and Lockwood and the rest of his band were billed as the King Biscuit Boys.
In 1949 he relocated to West Memphis, Arkansas and lived with his sister and her husband, Howlin' Wolf (later, for Checker Records, he did a parody of Howlin' Wolf entitled "Like Wolf"). Sonny Boy started his own KWEM radio show from 1948 to 1950 selling the elixir Hadacol.
Sonny Boy also brought his King Biscuit musician friends to West Memphis: Elmore James, Houston Stackhouse, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Robert Nighthawk and others, to perform on KWEM Radio.
In the 1940s Williamson married Mattie Gordon, who remained his wife until his death.
Williamson's first recording session took place in 1951 for Lillian McMurry of Jackson, Mississippi's Trumpet Records (three years after the death of John Lee Williamson, which for the first time allowed some legitimacy to Miller's carefully worded claim to being "the one and only Sonny Boy Williamson"). McMurry later erected Williamson's headstone, near Tutwiler, Mississippi, in 1977.
When Trumpet went bankrupt in 1955, Sonny Boy's recording contract was yielded to its creditors, who sold it to Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois. Sonny Boy had begun developing a following in Chicago beginning in 1953, when he appeared there as a member of Elmore James's band. It was during his Chess years that he enjoyed his greatest success and acclaim, recording about 70 songs for Chess subsidiary Checker Records from 1955 to 1964.
In the early 1960s he toured Europe several times during the height of the British blues craze, recording with The Yardbirds and The Animals, and appearing on several TV broadcasts throughout Europe. According to the Led Zeppelin biography 'Hammer of the Gods', while in England Sonny Boy set his hotel room on fire while trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator. Robert Palmer's "Deep Blues" mentions that during this tour he allegedly stabbed a man during a street fight and left the country abruptly.
Sonny Boy took a liking to the European fans, and while there had a custom-made, two-tone suit tailored personally for him, along with a bowler hat, matching umbrella, and an attaché case for his harmonicas. He appears credited as "Big Skol" on Roland Kirk's live album 'Kirk in Copenhagen' (1963). One of his final recordings from England, in 1964, featured him singing "I'm Trying To Make London My Home" with Hubert Sumlin providing the guitar. Due to his many years of relating convoluted, highly fictionalized accounts of his life to friends and family, upon his return to the Delta, some expressed disbelief upon hearing of Sonny Boy's touring across the Atlantic, visiting Europe, seeing the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, and other landmarks, and recording there.
Upon his return to the U.S., he resumed playing the King Biscuit Time show on KFFA, and performed around Helena, Arkansas. As fellow musicians Houston Stackhouse and Peck Curtis waited at the KFFA studios for Williamson on May 25, 1965, the 12:15 broadcast time was closing in and Sonny Boy was nowhere in sight. Peck left the radio station and headed out to locate Williamson, and discovered his body in bed at the rooming house where he'd been staying, dead of an apparent heart attack suffered in his sleep the night before.
Williamson is buried on New Africa Rd. just outside Tutwiler, Mississippi at the site of the former Whitman Chapel cemetery.
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The two are easy to distinguish. Williamson I played the harmonica acoustically and was essentially a pre-War artist. Williamson II was entirely an electrified harpist, in the style of Little Walter, reflecting the advent of the jukebox and electrified instruments following World War II.
(Compare the albums Sonny Boy Williamson I ~~ Sonny Boy Williamson II)
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Sonny Boy Williamson I (30 March 1914 - 1 June 1948)
also known as John Lee Curtis Williamson, was an American blues harmonica player, born in Jackson, Tennessee, whose first record Good Morning little School Girl was a hit in 1937. He was widely popular throughout the whole southeast of the U.S., and was practically synonymous with the blues harmonica for the next decade, making his a commonly used stage name by the time he was murdered in 1948. He is buried at the Old Blairs Chapel Church, south west of Jackson, Tennessee.
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Sonny Boy Williamson II (11 March 1908 - 25 May 1965) also known as Willie Williamson, Willie Miller, Little Boy Blue, The Goat and Footsie.
Aleck "Rice" Miller was an American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter.
Born as Aleck Ford to Millie Ford on the Sara Jones Plantation in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, his date and year of birth are a matter of uncertainty. He claimed to have been born on December 5, 1899, but one researcher, David Evans, claims to have found census record evidence that he was born around 1912. His gravestone lists his date of birth as March 11, 1908.
He lived and worked with his sharecropper stepfather, Jim Miller, whose last name he soon adopted, and mother, Millie Ford, until the early 1930s. Beginning in the 1930s, he traveled around Mississippi and Arkansas and encountered Big Joe Williams, Elmore James and Robert Lockwood, Jr., also known as Robert Junior Lockwood, who would play guitar on his later Checker Records sides. He was also associated with Robert Johnson during this period. Miller developed his style and raffish stage persona during these years. Willie Dixon recalled seeing Lockwood and Miller playing for tips in Greenville, Mississippi in the 1930s. He entertained audiences with novelties such inserting one end of the harmonica into his mouth and playing with no hands.
In 1941 Miller was hired to play the King Biscuit Time show, advertising the King Biscuit brand of baking flour on radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas with Lockwood. It was at this point that the radio program's sponsor, Max Moore, began billing Miller as Sonny Boy Williamson, apparently in an attempt to capitalize on the fame of the well known Chicago-based harmonica player and singer John Lee Williamson (Sonny Boy Williamson I). Although John Lee Williamson was a major blues star who had already released dozens of successful and widely influential records under the name "Sonny Boy Williamson" from 1937 onward, Aleck Miller would later claim to have been the first to use the name, and some blues scholars believe that Miller's assertion he was born in 1899 was a ruse to convince audiences he was old enough to have used the name before John Lee Williamson, who was born in 1914 (this is made somewhat less likely, however, by the fact that Miller was certainly older than Williamson even if one does not accept the 1899 birthdate.) Whatever the methodology, Miller became commonly known as "Sonny Boy Williamson", and Lockwood and the rest of his band were billed as the King Biscuit Boys.
In 1949 he relocated to West Memphis, Arkansas and lived with his sister and her husband, Howlin' Wolf (later, for Checker Records, he did a parody of Howlin' Wolf entitled "Like Wolf"). Sonny Boy started his own KWEM radio show from 1948 to 1950 selling the elixir Hadacol.
Sonny Boy also brought his King Biscuit musician friends to West Memphis: Elmore James, Houston Stackhouse, Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Robert Nighthawk and others, to perform on KWEM Radio.
In the 1940s Williamson married Mattie Gordon, who remained his wife until his death.
Williamson's first recording session took place in 1951 for Lillian McMurry of Jackson, Mississippi's Trumpet Records (three years after the death of John Lee Williamson, which for the first time allowed some legitimacy to Miller's carefully worded claim to being "the one and only Sonny Boy Williamson"). McMurry later erected Williamson's headstone, near Tutwiler, Mississippi, in 1977.
When Trumpet went bankrupt in 1955, Sonny Boy's recording contract was yielded to its creditors, who sold it to Chess Records in Chicago, Illinois. Sonny Boy had begun developing a following in Chicago beginning in 1953, when he appeared there as a member of Elmore James's band. It was during his Chess years that he enjoyed his greatest success and acclaim, recording about 70 songs for Chess subsidiary Checker Records from 1955 to 1964.
In the early 1960s he toured Europe several times during the height of the British blues craze, recording with The Yardbirds and The Animals, and appearing on several TV broadcasts throughout Europe. According to the Led Zeppelin biography 'Hammer of the Gods', while in England Sonny Boy set his hotel room on fire while trying to cook a rabbit in a coffee percolator. Robert Palmer's "Deep Blues" mentions that during this tour he allegedly stabbed a man during a street fight and left the country abruptly.
Sonny Boy took a liking to the European fans, and while there had a custom-made, two-tone suit tailored personally for him, along with a bowler hat, matching umbrella, and an attaché case for his harmonicas. He appears credited as "Big Skol" on Roland Kirk's live album 'Kirk in Copenhagen' (1963). One of his final recordings from England, in 1964, featured him singing "I'm Trying To Make London My Home" with Hubert Sumlin providing the guitar. Due to his many years of relating convoluted, highly fictionalized accounts of his life to friends and family, upon his return to the Delta, some expressed disbelief upon hearing of Sonny Boy's touring across the Atlantic, visiting Europe, seeing the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, and other landmarks, and recording there.
Upon his return to the U.S., he resumed playing the King Biscuit Time show on KFFA, and performed around Helena, Arkansas. As fellow musicians Houston Stackhouse and Peck Curtis waited at the KFFA studios for Williamson on May 25, 1965, the 12:15 broadcast time was closing in and Sonny Boy was nowhere in sight. Peck left the radio station and headed out to locate Williamson, and discovered his body in bed at the rooming house where he'd been staying, dead of an apparent heart attack suffered in his sleep the night before.
Williamson is buried on New Africa Rd. just outside Tutwiler, Mississippi at the site of the former Whitman Chapel cemetery.
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Open Road
Sonny Boy Williamson Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'Open Road' by these artists:
Aaron Lohr/Bill Farmer Do ya need a break from modern livin'? Do ya long…
Adam Derry Down an open road You don't have to go Very far to…
Adams & Cooley I'm sitting at the wheel I got a green light I'm…
BARLOW Gary My life is extraordinary bare I fought the fear and chased…
Bill Farmer & Aaron Lohr Do ya need a break from modern livin'? Do ya long…
Blacktop Mojo A rhythm runs through my veins that I can't shake I…
Bret Michaels Jesse was raised in the Hollywood Hills Living the perfect l…
Bryan Adams I'm sitting at the wheel - I got a green…
Chris Brown I should've been a better man Instead of wasting time spendi…
Eddie & The Cruisers (John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band) As I ride this lonesome highway The desert wind across my…
Edvards Strazdiņš It's hard to get by on a single dime And people…
Elvis Hitler I'm a singer I sing songs Piled into our big black van And…
Flight of Fancy It's been a long time since I've been out on…
Gary Barlow My life is extraordinary bare I fought the fear and chased…
Gary Barlow;Andy Duncan;Chris Cameron;Phil Palmer;Tommy Blaize;Lance Ellington;Jay Henry;Jay Ray Ruf My life is extraordinary bare I fought the fear and chased…
GARYSHAWN I don't know where we gonna go from here I can't…
Grace For some time now you seem to hear me but…
Helene Fischer Black road, Georgia trees Midnight moon, just stay with me L…
J Church This is no Vietnam A battleground mechanical Of sexualit…
John Cafferty As I ride this lonesome highway The desert wind across my…
John Cafferty The Beaver Brown Band As I ride this lonesome highway The desert wind across my…
Jon E.K. I found my greatest fortune in the form of pain But…
Jude Cole Black road, Georgia trees Midnight moon, just stay with me L…
Kris Delmhorst Make it happy ever after With all the love I've thrown…
Lost & Found Music Studios We've been thinking about it We've been talking ab…
Matthew Mayfield Lay me down on Shores of the whitest sand Soft like that…
Narrow Skies Look for me out on the open road Wait for me…
Ned LeDoux Never was good at standing still Always on the move Sittin'…
Nils Lofgren Why do I open my heart for a fall? Why do…
No Hype Living inside and I'm wondering why my life begins today…
North of Nine Why do I keep holding on, when all I do…
Oli Brown I should've been a better man Instead of wastin' time Spin…
Paul Russell Soon I'll be home Where the friends give hugs and the tracks…
Primary Don't say it's true, it's effervescent To be sure, it's like…
Rawlins Cross If you want to you could stay, dream your life…
Reno and Smiley Ooh ooh ooh I don't know about you but I'd…
Roo Panes Open road, no one stopped you from trying. To lose your…
Sackcloth Fashion Walk away walk away Down to the groves Add to the gradients …
Slightly Stoopid Well the clock says it's time to roll you For all…
Sons Of Levin I don't care if we're far from home Our bags are…
Taken We pull into town. I open my eyes and stretch out. The…
The City Shakeup Let's light a flame to chase the night away We'll light…
The Open Road Do ya need a break from modern livin'? Do ya long…
The Ransom Collective We've got the open road Nothing but blue skies Used to the…
The Rival Wherever these miles may go. This one thing I know: As long…
The Walls Let us find an open road Where all the signs have…
Tim Stop I don't listen any longer to the voices in my…
Tracy Colletto Tearing away with no hesitation This is the day we're no…
Whitney Duncan I come from that kind of town where everyone know's…
Wishbone Ash I was somewhere on the open road, Between the east and…
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...help Me You got to help me I can't do it all by…
09 Ninety Nine Darling you know exactly what happened, last year just about…
Alcohol Blues Alcohol Blues Track#16 2:46 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee…
All My Love In Vain My heart has been broken And all of my love`s in…
Apple tree swing Apple Tree Swing Track #12 2:22 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John…
Army Man Blues Who is that knockin' on that do'? I believe that, that's…
Baby Please Don't Go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don…
Bad Luck Blues Baby did you hear about the bad luck, the bad…
Beauty Parlor Beauty Parlor Track #23 3:29 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Le…
Better Cut That Out A-now-now, when you see a drunk man It made-a you mad When…
Big Apple Blues Now you know, baby You told me you didn't want me…
Black Gal Well, that I got somethin' to tell ya, black gal Black…
Blue Bird Blues My bluebird, bluebird, please take this letter down south fo…
Blue Bird Blues Part 2 Now, bluebird, bluebird Please take this letter down south …
Bluebird Blues My bluebird, bluebird, please take this letter down south fo…
Bluebird Blues Pt. 2 Now, bluebird, bluebird Please take this letter down south f…
Blues about my baby I've got to check up on my baby, yeah I've got…
Blues that made me drunk Well, I ack'd a sweet mama Just to let me a-be…
Born Blind You've talking about your woman, I wish to God, man,…
Bring Another Half A Pint Now, an I'd ruther be sloppy drunk A-than anything I know A-…
Bring It on Home Baby, baby I'm gonna bring it on home to you I done…
Broken heart blues Now, I'm broke an I'm homeless Ridin', an I'm dirty, too Bro…
Bye Bye Bird Yeah, we know these sounds. These sounds belong to one man. …
Check Up On My Baby I've got to check up on my baby, yeah I've got…
Check Upon My Baby Blues Check Up On My Baby Track 22 2:43 Sonny Boy Williamson…
Checkin Yeah I'm checking on my baby Find out what she's puttin' d…
Checkin Up On My Baby 2 Yeah I'm checking on my baby Find out what she's puttin' dow…
Checkin' Up On My Baby 2 Yeah I'm checking on my baby Find out what she's puttin' d…
Christmas Morning Blues Well, it was on one Christmas morning Peoples, Chrismas is c…
Coal and Icaman Blues Lord, I would love to be yo' iceman But I would…
Coal and Iceman Blues Lord, I would love to be yo' iceman But I would…
Coal Miner Blues Lord, I would love to be yo' iceman But I would…
Collector man blues Who is that knockin' on that do'? I believe that, that's…
Come on baby and take a walk Come On Baby And Take A Walk Track 18 2:46 Sonny…
Cool And Iceman Blues Lord, I would love to be yo' iceman But I would…
Cool Disposition My baby a kind hearted woman, so lovely and so…
Cross My Heart If you cross your heart to someone You`re not suposed to…
Dealing With The Devil I Been Dealing With The Devil Track #13 2:47 Sonny Boy…
Decoration Blues Lord, I had a woman She was nice lovin' in ev'ry…
Decoration Day Lord, I had a woman She was nice lovin' in ev'ry…
Deep Down in the Ground You hear'd that rumblin'? You hear'd that rumblin'? Deep dow…
Desperado woman You is just a desperated woman My baby ain't no earthly…
Desperado Woman Blues Desperado Woman Blues Track 20 2:37 Sonny Boy Williamson I (…
Don't Lose Your Eye Don't lose your eye, man to spite your face, Don't…
Don't Start Me Talkin Well, I'm goin' down to Rosie's, stop at Fannie Mae's…
Down Child Listen downchild Please take a fool's advice Listen downch…
Down south Now an' I'm goin' back down South Man, where the weather…
Drink on little girl Now, an I know'd you didn't love me Babe you didn't…
Dust My Broom I'm a get up in the mornin' I believe I'll dust…
Early in the Morning Now, when a little girl becomin' twelve years old Beginin' t…
Elevator Woman Elevate me mama Mama, five or six stories on down Elevate …
Eyesight to the Blind You've talking about your woman, I wish to God, man,…
Fattening Frog For Snakes It took me a long time, to find out my…
Good Evening Everybody Good evening, everybody, tell me how do you do Good evening…
Good Gal Blues Well, that I got somethin' to tell ya, black gal Black…
Good Gravy Oh, but what this smell like gravy? An' I would like…
Good Moring Little Schoolgirl Good mornin' 'lil school girl, can I go home, can I…
good mornin' little school girl Hello, little school girl Good mo'nin, little school girl Ca…
Good Morning Good mornin' 'lil school girl, can I go home, can I…
Good Morning Little School Girl Hello, little school girl Good mo'nin, little school girl Ca…
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl Good mornin' 'lil school girl, can I go home, can I…
Good Morning School Girl Hello, little school girl Good morning, little school girl C…
Good Morning, Little Schoolgirl Good mornin' little schoolgirl Can I go home with you Tell y…
Good Morning, School Girl Hello, little school girl Good morning, little school girl C…
Goodbye Red Well, goodbye Red Now, I ain't gon' cry Now, goodbye Red Now…
Got The Bottle And Gone Well, I don't run no fillin' station I don't sell no…
Ground Hog Blues Now I'm a walkin' groundhog, mama and I walks around…
Have You Ever Been In Love Have you ever been in love with a woman, like…
Help Me You got to help me I can't do it all by…
HIGHWAY 49 Well I'm gonna get up in the morning Hit the highway…
Honey Bee Blues Honey Bee Blues Track 1 3:02 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John…
Hoodoo Hoodoo Lord, I wonder what the matter with time Seems like everythi…
I Been Dealing With the Devil Now, my baby wasn't even decided About our weddin' ring When…
I Don't Care No More When we first met, I know what it was A…
I Don't Know At eleven forty five the phone begain the ring I heard…
I Have Been Dealing With The Devil Now, my baby wasn't even decided About our weddin' ring When…
I Have Got To Go Now, an I want you to gather 'round boys We've all…
I Love You for Myself I Love You For Myself Track #20 2:59 Sonny Boy Williamson…
I Win the War Blues Uncle Sam is gonna give me a Thunderbolt, he want…
I'm Gonna Catch Ya Soon I keep sniffin' darlin', hidin' on me A-papa gonna catch you…
I'm Gonna Catch Yoy Soon I'm Gonna Catch You Soon Track 3 2:45 Sonny Boy…
I'm Tired Of Truckin' My Blues Away Oh, I'm gettin', yes I'm gettin' tired A-you truckin' my blu…
I'm Tired Of Trucking My Blues Away I'm Tired of Truckin' My Blues Away Track #21 2:58 Sonny…
I'm Tired Trucking My Blues Away Oh, I'm gettin', yes I'm gettin' tired A-you truckin' my blu…
I've Been Dealing With The Devil Now, my baby wasn't even decided About our weddin' ring When…
Insurance Man Blues Ev'ry Monday mo'nin People, the insurance man knockin' on my…
It's a Bloody Life Finjo ser invisível Pra não ter que te encarar Afogo na pisc…
I’m Gonna Catch You Soon I'm Gonna Catch You Soon Track 3 2:45 Sonny Boy…
Jackson Blues Now when I left out of Jackson My baby was standin'…
Jivin' the Blues Say now, now come 'ere I, I just wanna talk wit'…
Joe Louis And John Henry Blues Well, while I was sit'n at Madison Square Gardens Now, just…
Keep It To Your Baby, do me a favor, keep our business to yourself. Please,…
Keep It to Yourself Baby, do me a favor, keep our business to yourself Please,…
Lacey belle Lacey Belle Track #11 2:48 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee)…
Let Me Explain Less walking, less talking, Give me, a chance to explain Les…
Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide Hold up your head, and don't let your conscience get…
Life time blues Life Time Blues Track 13 2:42 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John…
Liquor store blues (harmonica intro) Now me an my baby we talked late…
Little Girl Little girl, little girl I've got something I wan' say to…
Little laura blues Little Girl Blues Track 13 3:16 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John…
Lonesome Cabin In my one room little cabin, just me and my…
Lord Now an' I'm goin' away, baby Just to worry you off…
Lord Oh Lord Now an' I'm goin' away, baby Just to worry you off…
Lord, Oh Lord Blues Now, and I'm goin' away, baby Just to worry you off…
Love Me Baby I want you to hold me in yo' arms, baby A-take…
Low Down Blues Low Down Ways Track 14 3:10 Sonny Boy Williamson I…
Low Down Ways Now listen here, baby Do you think I'm gonna be yo'…
Mattie Mae Blues Hello stranger, now You sho' do remind me of Mattie Mae,…
Mean old highway Mean Old Highway Track number six 3:21 Sonny Boy Williamson …
Mighty Long Time Oh been so long, been a mighty mighty long time Been…
Million years blues Million Year Blues Track #18 3: 02 Sonny Boy Williamson I…
Miss Louisa Blues Miss Louisa Blues Track #19 3:02 Sonny Boy Williamson I (Joh…
Miss Louisia Blues Now ever since Louisa, been gone My life don't seem the…
Miss Luisa Blues Miss Louisa Blues Track #19 3:02 Sonny Boy Williamson I (Joh…
Miss Stella Brown Blues Stella Brown Blues Track 19 2:47 Sonny Boy Williamson I (Joh…
Moonshine Now, any-'is, moonshine Moonshine do harm to many men Now an…
My Baby Yeah I'm checking on my baby Find out what she's puttin' dow…
My Black Name My Black Name Track #22 2:42 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John…
My black name blues Now, I can hear my black name a-ringin' All up an'…
My Little Baby Yeah I'm checking on my baby Find out what she's puttin' dow…
My Little Cabin (Rice Miller Williamson) In my one room little cabin, Just m…
My Little Cornelia Oh yes, somethin's gettin' wrong with my little machine Oh …
My Little Cornelius Special deliver man, special deliver man Please take this le…
My Little Machine Oh yes, somethin's gettin' wrong with my little machine Oh y…
Nelson Street Blues I went down on Shannon Street Now to buy some alcohol I…
New early in the morning Now, when a little girl becomin' twelve years old Beginin' t…
Night Time Is the Right Time You know the night time, oh, is the right time To…
Nine Below Zero Yeah, ain't that a pity People ain't that a cryin' shame Ain…
Ninety Nine Darling you know exactly what happened, last year just about…
No Friend Blues Lord, I had a woman She was nice lovin' in ev'ry…
No More Nights By Myself Hmm I'm not going to spend another night by myself Lord, I'm…
No Nights By Myself Hmm I'm not going to spend another night by myself Lord, I…
Number Five Blues Number Five Blues Track 9 3:26 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John…
One Way Out Raise your window I ain't goin' out that door Raise your win…
Please Don't Go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don't go Baby, please don…
Polly Put Your Kettle On Now oh little Susie How I love you Nothin′ in the world Gonn…
Pontiac Blues Yeah, what my baby told me What tonight looks like Oh, what…
Project Highway Well, well, well, well I've got to get some money I wants…
Rainy Day Blues Rainy Day Blues Track 18 3:16 Sonny Boy Williamson I…
Rootin' Ground Hog Now I'm a walkin' groundhog, mama and I walks around…
Rub a dub You know my mama bought a washbo'd An a brand new…
Santa Claus My baby went shopping yesterday, Said, "I'm gonna buy what y…
Shake That Boogie Now, an my baby went out An' stayed out all night…
Shannon Street Blues I went down on Shannon Street Now to buy some alcohol I…
She Brought Life Back to the Dead When I first heard about it I didn't believe what you…
She Don't Leave Me That Way Well, I got somethin' to tell ya, baby You can't do You…
She's My Baby Yeah I'm checking on my baby Find out what she's puttin' dow…
Shotgun blues You ought a heard my grandmother When she got my grandfathe…
Skinny Woman Now I don't want no, no skinny woman, I want…
Sloopy Drunk Blues Now I would rather be sloppy drunk A-than anything I know …
Sloppy Drunk Blues Now I would rather be sloppy drunk A-than anything I know Yo…
Somebody Help Me You got to help me I can't do it all by…
Sonny boy's cold chills Sonny Boy's Cold Chills Track number five 3:03 Sonny Boy Wil…
Sonny Boy's Jump Sonny Boy's Jump Track #25 2:47 Sonny Boy Williamson I (John…
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Al Blake
Love these sessions.... The band behind Sonny Boy is the greatest!!!
thebluesguy
Extraordinary work from Otis Spann on piano.
John Franken
One of my favorite blues albums period.
Ben Cripps
Second that, Al Blake - every track on this LP has THE most superb backing. You feel these guys could make these fantastic records almost in their sleep; the backing is always so tasteful and appropriate. Robert Jr is my hero, but every one of the Chicago blues session musicians from the 50s and early 60s was peerless.
Bluesnoir
This song, "Open Road" recorded in 1960, is from the LP "Bummer Road", that was released in 1969, one of the incredible Chess reissue series of that era. This song more than any other is the one that shaped my musical direction, a zen master class in blues accompaniment, no Stevie Ray guitar excesses, but two guitars, piano, bass, harp, and singer in an incredible less is more approach that is without peer.
danielfvelaoficial
Can someone help me with lyrics of this song????? I'm Spanish speaker and I can't understand some words.
Harmonicamatt2
OPEN ROAD written by Alec Rice Miller Sonny Boy Williamson No 2
My homes in the delta way out on the open road
I m leaving Chicago peoples I hate to go
But m gonna go in the morning and I wont be back no more PLAY
Well I know my baby don t know what the shape in Aint had no lovin peoples in God knows when
Whooah Woooah Ooooahh
PLAY
Got me sitting down thinking what the shape I m in
Ain t had no lovin in god knows when
For three hours where has the woman been?
PLAY
Where have where have she been?
I havent had no loving Lord in God knows when Oh Yeah!
PLAY is use harmonica.
Lucas Chetyrbuk
danielfvelaoficial most English speakers can't understand him very well either 😂