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We today have the blues, too, but it is a blues of our day. It's more of the mind and heart and not of the beating of the back.

Joe Williams

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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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Born: December 12, 1918
Died: March 29, 1999 (aged 80)
Bio: Joe Williams was an American jazz singer.
Known for:
  1. Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1955)
  2. One O'Clock Jump (1957)
  3. Joe Williams Live (1973)
  4. Nothin' but the Blues (1984)

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