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Blind Connie Williams (born c.1915 – fl. 1974) was an American blues guitarist who was a street performer beginning in the early 1930s. Williams was something of a journeyman throughout his busking career, but he lived in Philadelphia for most of his life. Much of his repertoire consisted of sanctified gospel songs and pre-war country blues standards. In 1961, Williams had a recording session with the record producer Pete Welding, the results of which were later released on a compilation album.

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  • Blind Connie Williams (* um 1915 in Florida; bl.  1974) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluesgitarrist, der ab Anfang der 1930er Jahre als Straßenmusiker auftrat. Williams zog während seiner gesamten Karriere als Straßenmusiker umher, lebte aber die meiste Zeit seines Lebens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ein Großteil seines Repertoires bestand aus Gospelsongs und Country-Blues-Standards der Vorkriegszeit. Im Jahr 1961 hatte Williams eine Aufnahmesitzung mit dem Plattenproduzenten Pete Welding, deren Ergebnisse 1974 und 1995 veröffentlicht wurden. (de)
  • Blind Connie Williams (born c.1915 – fl. 1974) was an American blues guitarist who was a street performer beginning in the early 1930s. Williams was something of a journeyman throughout his busking career, but he lived in Philadelphia for most of his life. Much of his repertoire consisted of sanctified gospel songs and pre-war country blues standards. In 1961, Williams had a recording session with the record producer Pete Welding, the results of which were later released on a compilation album. (en)
  • "Blind" Connie Williams (1915 - ?) fue un guitarrista y cantante de blues estadounidense que se desempeñó principalmente como músico callejero en Filadelfia, Pensilvania. Grabó únicamente una serie de blues y canciones religiosas en 1961 para el sello Testament.​ El año y lugar de la muerte de Williams son inciertas. Existen testimonios de que todavía vivía en 1974, aunque raramente actuaba debido al estado de fragilidad que caracterizó su vejez.​ (es)
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  • Blind Connie Williams (en)
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  • Blind Connie Williams (* um 1915 in Florida; bl.  1974) war ein US-amerikanischer Bluesgitarrist, der ab Anfang der 1930er Jahre als Straßenmusiker auftrat. Williams zog während seiner gesamten Karriere als Straßenmusiker umher, lebte aber die meiste Zeit seines Lebens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ein Großteil seines Repertoires bestand aus Gospelsongs und Country-Blues-Standards der Vorkriegszeit. Im Jahr 1961 hatte Williams eine Aufnahmesitzung mit dem Plattenproduzenten Pete Welding, deren Ergebnisse 1974 und 1995 veröffentlicht wurden. (de)
  • Blind Connie Williams (born c.1915 – fl. 1974) was an American blues guitarist who was a street performer beginning in the early 1930s. Williams was something of a journeyman throughout his busking career, but he lived in Philadelphia for most of his life. Much of his repertoire consisted of sanctified gospel songs and pre-war country blues standards. In 1961, Williams had a recording session with the record producer Pete Welding, the results of which were later released on a compilation album. Little is known about Williams's personal life. According to Welding's notes, Williams was born in Florida sometime in 1915. His parents were migrant workers. As a teenager, he attended the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind in St. Augustine, where he developed a sophisticated understanding of harmony and proficiency as a guitarist. He began his career as a street performer in the 1930s. In 1935, Williams settled in Philadelphia. He frequently traveled to Harlem, where he performed alongside Reverend Gary Davis. Williams could play blues standards, folk songs, and some pop tunes, but he told Welding in 1961 that he preferred playing spirituals, because he enjoyed them and "the police rarely would bother him if he confined himself to this sort of material". The Piedmont blues guitarist Frank Hovington, another musician who occasionally teamed up with Williams in Philadelphia in the 1940s, recalled that Williams was "more at home" performing spirituals, as he sang in a gospel quartet at an African Methodist Episcopal church in Frederick, Maryland. In 1961, when Williams was residing in a predominantly black neighborhood on Lombard Street in Philadelphia, Welding observed his performance of sanctified numbers with accordion accompaniment. After striking up a friendship with the producer, Williams explained that he had begun to play the accordion for its audibility, while also limiting his physical activity, both important characteristics for the aging musician. For the recording sessions he agreed to participate with Welding at radio station WHYY on May 5, 1961. Welding bought him a guitar, and Williams reacquainted himself with it. The influence of Reverend Davis is evident throughout the 23 numbers recorded, but Williams had his own style, marked by bass string slapping and bottleneck techniques. None of the recordings were released at the time; however, 16 of the songs were compiled on the album Blind Connie Williams: Traditional Blues, Spirituals and Folksongs in 1974 on Welding's Testament Records. Williams' best-known song, his early 1930s rendition of a song that was adopted by Thomas A. Dorsey's "Take My Hand, Precious Lord" was performed in a traditional eight-bar blues format, which was his preferred style. Not much is known about Williams following his sessions with Welding, although he was still living in Philadelphia by 1974. In 1995, his album, retitled Philadelphia Street Singer, was distributed, with seven tracks from the 1961 sessions that were not included on the 1974 version. (en)
  • "Blind" Connie Williams (1915 - ?) fue un guitarrista y cantante de blues estadounidense que se desempeñó principalmente como músico callejero en Filadelfia, Pensilvania. Grabó únicamente una serie de blues y canciones religiosas en 1961 para el sello Testament.​ Williams nació en fecha incierta en 1915 en el sur de Florida, en una familia de granjeros migrantes. Ciego de nacimiento, Williams fue educado en la Escuela de San Petersburgo para Ciegos donde llegó a convertirse en un hábil guitarrista, acordeonista y vocalista. En la década de 1930 comenzó su carrera como artista callejero itinerante, finalmente asentándose en 1935 en las calles de un barrio tradicional afroamericano de Filadelfia, y ocasionalmente viajando a la Ciudad de Nueva York para tocar en el barrio de Harlem. Allí, Williams fue fuertemente influenciado por el estilo de guitarra y voz del Reverendo Gary Davis, con quien solía tocar (sin embargo, el reporte de Davis acerca de las fechas es confuso ya que este no se mudaría a Nueva York sino hasta 1944). El repertorio de Williams comprendió el blues, el folk y el góspel.​ Si bien tocaba canciones religiosas porque eran de su interés, incurría más frecuentemente en estas que en otros estilos debido a que "la policía raramente lo molestaría si se limitaba a esa clase de material".​ En cuanto a su impronta estilística, Williams prefería los blues de 8 o 16 compases a la forma más usual de 12, y fue un pionero de la afinación haciendo sus progresiones en un Mi abierto. Durante las dos décadas siguientes, Williams continuaría su carrera de artista callejero, viajando considerablemente y actuando solo o junto a otros músicos locales.​ Asimismo, un tal Frank Hovington recordó a "Williams cantando con un cuarteto de góspel, debido a que era un visitante frecuente de la a la que pertenecía su madre, en Fredricka, Maryland".​ En 1961, el folklorista descubrió a Williams en una de sus funciones mientras tocaba el acordeón. Williams dijo a Weilding que prefería este instrumento debido a su audibilidad eficaz y menor demanda física. Sin embargo, antes de trabajar con Weilding, Williams se volvió a familiarizar con la guitarra,​ y el 5 de mayo de 1961 Wielding produjo la grabación de 23 canciones de blues y folk de Williams para el sello Testament, donde este hizo todas las partes vocales, de guitarra y acordeón. Dichas grabaciones no fueron editadas hasta 1974, siendo reeditadas en 1995 en Disco Compacto junto a siete pistas inéditas bajo el título de Philadelphia Street Performer Blind Connie Williams: Traditional Blues, Spirituals, and Folksongs.​ El año y lugar de la muerte de Williams son inciertas. Existen testimonios de que todavía vivía en 1974, aunque raramente actuaba debido al estado de fragilidad que caracterizó su vejez.​ (es)
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