Search - Robert Pete Williams :: Louise: Live at the University of Florida 1974

"Although Robert Pete Williams died in 1980 at the age of 66, he arguably remains the most avant-garde blues performer ever recorded. No punk rock band has ever matched the jagged, acerbic fury of the riffs Williams played 35 years ago. No rapper has approached his ability to evoke the torment of life in prison or bend language to cast an eerie spell over a chance encounter with a seductive woman. Williams could improvise precise, topical blues numbers with remarkable spontaneity. He had never been recorded when he was discovered in Angola penitentiary in Louisiana, convicted of murder. Like the country blues titan Leadbelly, Williams even sang his way to freedom." - Milo Miles, New York Times, 1994 ""The posthumous discovery of yet another rural blues guitarist is always welcome news. Robert Pete Williams, who died in 1980 at the age of 66, never garnered much of a following primarily because his unorthodox and improvised guitar playing was unappreciated except by blues aficionados open to idiosyncratic stylings." - CD Review