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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 6, 2014 17:37:21 GMT -5
Jody Williams - Lonely without you / Moanin' for molasses (Nike 1013) 1962
Jody Williams - Lonely without you / Time for a change (Yulando 8665) 1966 (Note:reversed labels)
According to French blues researcher Gerard Herzhaft the Yulando 45 is wrongly attributed to Jody Williams.
In his opinion the Yulando 45 features Joe Driver Williams,a completely different artist.
I think Herzhaft is talking b.s. because:
Jody played 'Time for a change' at this gig.As a matter of fact I was there.
I can't find information about Joe Driver Williams.
Can anyone enlighten me?
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Post by AlanB on Jun 7, 2014 2:58:07 GMT -5
According to French blues researcher Gerard Herzhaft the Yulando 45 is wrongly attributed to Jody Williams. In his opinion the Yulando 45 features Joe Driver Williams,a completely different artist. I think Herzhaft is talking b.s. Marc, like you I've never heard of this artist nor can I find reference to him. Where does Gerard state this? In one of his blues encyclopaedias? I only own the 1990. Very unlike GH to state such without "proof".
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 7, 2014 3:20:30 GMT -5
According to French blues researcher Gerard Herzhaft the Yulando 45 is wrongly attributed to Jody Williams. In his opinion the Yulando 45 features Joe Driver Williams,a completely different artist. I think Herzhaft is talking b.s. Marc, like you I've never heard of this artist nor can I find reference to him. Where does Gerard state this? In one of his blues encyclopaedias? I only own the 1990. Very unlike GH to state such without "proof". See here: jukegh.blogspot.be/2014/02/chicago-blues-yesterday-vol-9.html
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 7, 2014 6:27:41 GMT -5
On a nerdy side note...
Jody Williams real name is Joseph Leon Williams
The following artists are NOT Jody Williams
Sugar Boy Williams (real name: Leon Williams)
Five long years / Little Girl (Herald H -555) early 1960
Tryin' to find a woman (uniss.)
Five long years (uniss.)
Little girl take your time / Someday Darling (Raines 2906) 1965
Leon 'Dr Jive' Williams
c. 1954 * P-Vine (Jap)PCD-3058
(all tracks of 'Modern' origin)
Same mistake twice *
Can't understand you (unissued)
The other man*
Feel like a child*
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 8, 2014 16:45:39 GMT -5
Jody Williams: "I'm not too sure about the Yulando label, which released 'Time for a change' and 'Lonely without you' (Yulando 8665).That would be around the mid 1960s."
Source:THE JODY WILLIAMS STORY / Interview by Mike Stephenson (BLUES & RHYTHM # 184 / p.22 - November 2003)
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 14, 2014 16:55:35 GMT -5
I shot an e-mail to Gérard Herzhaft.It transpires there was an 'impostor' recording under the name of 'Jody Williams'.Gérard told me where to look for more information.I stumbled onto an article by Ray Astbury entitled 'The other Jody Williams'. I'll explain later.I'm too much confused at the moment: this raises more questions.
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Post by Gérard on Jun 18, 2014 9:01:24 GMT -5
I just stumbled on this very interesting discussion. Thank you for being interested in my blog. As said above, the information about a Joe "Driver" Williams, a very different (and apparently from Louisiana where he had recorded for Yulando) came to me through 1) a documented article published in the british magazine Blues & Rhythm n° 252; 2) an interview I conducted with Jody Williams about two or three years ago where he told us twice the Yulando 45 was not by him although he was just signing autographs for a collector who was handling it to him! To my ears, neither the voice nor the guitar playing on the Yulando are similar to the other Jody Williams' recordings but of course it's only a personnal feeling...
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2014 9:11:37 GMT -5
Glad to have your input Gerard. Thanks.
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Post by gerard on Jun 18, 2014 9:30:46 GMT -5
Thanks! By the way, to answer a question about the Yulando label, it was a short-lived sub-label of the Jin outfit from Ville Platte, La. The so-called Jody Williams 45 was issued in 1964
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Post by Admin on Jun 18, 2014 9:33:20 GMT -5
May I link in the right sidebar to your blog? We would love to have you as a member.
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Post by gerard on Jun 18, 2014 9:47:02 GMT -5
No problem at all... I just can't swear I will be very often around here...
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 18, 2014 9:50:57 GMT -5
Hi Gérard.Nice of you to come by.
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Jun 18, 2014 15:41:10 GMT -5
'Jody has no recollection of the Yulando sessions' (Dick Shurman - Living Blues # 16 - Spring 1974)
The BMI Database credits Songwriter / Composer : Joseph Driver Williams Jr. for both sides of the Yulando 45.
Publishers: WHITE CLIFFS PUBLISHING CO INC (suggests a New Orleans location)
It's easy to see how JDW jr.,by way of Joe D. Williams came to call himself Jody Williams.
It is reasonable to suppose that the New Orleans Jody Williams was a different person to the Chicago Jody Williams. ('The other Jody Williams' by Ray Astbury / Blues & Rhythm # 252 - SEPT 2010)
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Post by blueescorpio2000 on Oct 28, 2014 6:11:32 GMT -5
JOE DRIVER WILLIAMS Yulando 45t
'This quite rare 45 comes from the Yulando label, a New Orleans based outfit. For a long time, it was considered a Jody Williams record, the famous Chicago guitarist. But as Jody always said repeatedly that it was not by him and through the researches of noted Britsih blues critic Ray Ashbury (in Blues & Rhythm Magazine), this 45 appears to be more proabably by a Louisiana singer, Joe D. Williams also known as Joe "Driver" Williams, hence the Jody Williams tag on the record.The overall sound and atmosphere very strongly rooted in New Orleans R&B tradition. But others still think this is Chicago's Jody Williams... Anyway, as this 45 was quite hard to hear, we (and thanks to the generosity of Steve Wisner) offer through our YouTube channel the opportunity to make a better personal judgment...' (Gerard Herzhaft)
Thanks Steve and Gerard!
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