Today is the birthday of Big Joe Williams (Joseph Lee Williams, 1903-1982). It’s so tempting to include him in my Stars  of Vaudeville series since he seems to have gotten awfully close to the black vaudeville circuits, working in minstrel and medicine shows and all-black revues — but unless I come across the word vaudeville per […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 11:27AM on October 16, 2013