So, you're interested in my friend Little Joe Washington?
My name is guy Schwartz, and I've got a lot more than this CD for you!
There's a new 23-minute LITTLE JOE WASHINGTON video! I've just finished an episode of my 'Hippies.TV' about Little [+]So, you're interested in my friend Little Joe Washington?
My name is guy Schwartz, and I've got a lot more than this CD for you!
There's a new 23-minute LITTLE JOE WASHINGTON video! I've just finished an episode of my 'Hippies.TV' about Little Joe, and you can view it or download it for free! This one (we have smaller) is a big file at 122megs - you'll need a broadband connection.
The video can found at...
http://www.guyschwartz.com/HippiesTV0512LITTLE JOE700.wmv
PLUS - there are two shorter live video pieces (which a dial-up connection can handle) at www.hippies.tv
You can also find more about Little Joe (and another CD) at Sonny James' site - www.raggedyass.com
This 'earthwire blue' CD was recorded live at earthwire.net, Houston, Texas' groundbreaking internet radio station and performance space (2000-2002), where my New Jack Hippies band backed up Little Joe for Mike 'the big MF' Farber and Kingfish Keith on their 'Hour of Truth & Texas Music' program.
That said - please buy this CD. Then, come back to read this essay I wrote (about my relationship with Little Joe Washington) while you're listening to it.
See you where the live music is!
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RIDIN' WITH LITTLE JOE
by Guy Schwartz
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I was asked by a Polish music writer to answer some questions about Little Joe Washington for an upcoming article he was doing for a European blues magazine. As I began to write back, I realized that I was writing my own essay about Little Joe.
Writing about Little Joe is hard. Joe is a very multi-faceted man, and, I could see that the impressions the writer already had contained incorrect assumptions or claims.
I don't see Little Joe in any of the ways he is usually portrayed in print. I don't see him as the crazy wildman we see on stage. I see Little Joe as a fellow musician, as a genius musician, and as a man who has made a lot of decisions to avoid many of the responsibilities that most of us feel obliged to take on.
When I'm with Joe, his only weirdness is his desire to keep moving. He doesn't like sitting around in one place for a long time. Even at a gig that he books, if there is more than one set - he's ready to leave at breaktime. If there's only one set, Little Joe wants to cut it short. He will listen t
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