Jody Williams's lyrics & chords

Retired from the Chicago blues business for decades and now back again and sounding as good as ever, Jody Williams's stinging lead guitar work is still stirringly felt every time someone punches up Billy Boy Arnold's "I Was Fooled," Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love," Otis Spann's "Five Spot," or Williams's eerie minor-key instrumental masterpiece, "Lucky Lou." Born in Alabama, Joseph Leon Williams moved to Chicago at age six. He grew up alongside Bo Diddley, the two trading licks as kids and playing for real by 1951. By the mid-'50s, Williams was...read more