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A Conversation with Arthur Williams Joel Slotnikoff Arthur Williams appears on Clara McDaniel's "Unwanted Child" CD and on the Big Bad Smitty CD, "Cold Blood." As always his harp playing is the absolute low-down real thing. He made his European debut under his own name at the Blues Estafette. Here's what Blues & Rhythm: The Gospel Truth had to say about it: "As already mentioned, the opener in the small hall was Arthur Williams, infamous as being the harp player on Frank Front's Phillips International (sic) album. Based now around St. Louis, he came with a rocking back-up band. Jimmy Lee Kennett on guitar and Bob Lohr on piano gave us the Chuck Berry influence, very effectively too, whilst Gus Thornton laid down a steady bass line. Arthur's animated set featured a healthy dose of Excello blues such as "King Bee" along with a deliciously swampy "Since I Met You Baby" and standard numbers like "C.C. Rider" and "You Got Me Runnin'", before being joined on vocals by Bobo (pronounced Boo Boo) Davis from behind the drum kit - a thunderous drummer and a thunderous vocalist, he and Arthur teamed up on a Wolf medley which started out as "Poor Boy" before transforming itself into "Airplane Man" with lots of both apparently rehearsed repertoire and unrehearsed repartee between the pair. A storming "Going Back To East (sic: St.) Louis" had the crowd jumping. We'd certainly like to hear more from both Bobo and Arthur, who gave a good impression of being as much of a 'rascal' as Sonny B

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