(October 8th 1893 - November 6th 1965)
Born in Plaquemine, Louisiana he ran away from home to join a minstrel show when he was twelve and went on to become a favorite pianist, promoter, and publisher in New Orleans by the mid-1910s. Following a brief tour with W.C. Handy, Williams established a publishing office in Chicago, and then New York by the early '20s. There he married Eva Taylor and would be a continuing source of race record hits throughout the decade.
Videos:
A Pane In The Glass (3:05)
Anywhere Sweetie Goes (2:59)
Baltimore (2:56)
Bottomland (3:16)
Cake Walking Babies From Home (2:59)
Close Fit Blues (3:05)
Cushion Foot Stomp (3:20)
Dinah (2:47)
Do It A Long Time Papa (3:18)
Everybody Loves My Baby (2:34)
Gulf Coast Blues (3:07)
I Don't Care Who Gets What I Don't Want (2:53)
I'm Going Back To Bottomland (2:40)
I'm Not Worrying (3:03)
I'm Through (2:56)
In The Bottle Blues (2:55)
Kansas City Man Blues (3:01)
Mama Stayed Out (3:17)
Mandy Make Up Your Mind (3:13)
Nervous Breakdown (2:47)
Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (2:59)
Of All The Wrongs You've Done To Me (2:56)
Organ Grinder Blues (3:05)
Santa Claus Blues (3:17)
Slow River (3:14)
Speakeasy (2:51)
Take Your Black Bottom Dance Outside (6:01)
Wait Till You See My Baby Do The Charleston (2:59)
Wait Till You See My Baby Do The Charleston (2:50)
Watchin' The Clock (3:06)
West End Blues (3:19)
What Ya Want Me To Do? (2:57)
What's The Matter Now? (2:29)
Wild Cat Blues (3:03)
You Don't Understand (3:08)
You've Got the Right Key But the Wrong Keyhole (3:22)
You've Got To Be Modernistic (2:52)
Zulu Wail (3:10)
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