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Hoot Your Belly
It's fair to say that Jimmy Lee Williams isn't a polished bluesman. He'll never be B.B. King. But that's fine. On these tracks recorded between 1977 and 1982 at his home in Porlan, GA, he serves up a mess of raw blues with just his voice and guitar. While not a great player, he uses the instrument effectively to back himself, behind a slightly gravelly voice. And what you get is the blues as you'd hear it in the country, at the house parties and dances that still go on. While the songs are all supposedly traditional (some well known, like "Step It Up and Go," for example), several have very individual touches, while a few others are cobbled together with verses taken from the deep general we...
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