Here’s a gem of an understated “Mojo” from 1963. Any videos of Sonny Boy Williamson II are scarce indeed, since he died in the summer of 1965. That’s the American Folk Blues Tour again, with Otis Spann, Matt Murphy, Willie Dixon, and Bill Stepney (very rare to see him) on the drums.
Locale? Britain or the Continent. Impeccably dressed and behaved audience of well-scrubbed youngsters. Muddy to Sonny Boy before the show: “Let’s keep it down. We don’t want to scare the children.”
Sonny Boy Williamson – Keep It To Yourself, By John Siscoe
Also from Sonny Williamson – Your Funeral and My Trial, I am a Lonely Man, Nine Below Zero, and Bye Bye Bird.
Bio of Sonny Boy Williamson which begins with the words, “So, do we know who he really was?”
