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Jimmy Lee Williams - Have You Ever Seen Peaches

From The George Mitchell Collection Recorded in Porlan, Georgia, 1977, by George Mitchell; Jimmy Lee Williams, vocal and guitar http://www.musicmaker.org/artists/jim... Born July 25, 1925, in Worth County, Georgia, Jimmy Lee Williams came from a family of farmers, and farmed himself all his life. When George Mitchell recorded him, he was farming soybeans, peanuts, and watermelons. He started out on an acoustic guitar, then switched to an electric in 1957. He appeared at parties in the area with his younger brother, both of them playing guitars until dawn. "I maybe got but five cents if I am ready to go somewhere I can go," Williams told Mitchell. "I got gas in all them cars out there and in the truck and every one of them can crank up and go. We ain't got no fine clothes, nothing like that, but don't mean nothing...if we have to go to the doctor or something else, we get in our old car and take off. Go anywhere, and don't have to worry about it." ~ Sam Sweet Jimmy Lee Williams lived surrounded by watermelons. He lived down this dirt roadway, south of Cordele. He was the only one of these farming blues singers I recorded to own his own farm. He raised mostly watermelons. Cordele is "The Watermelon Capital of the World." We didn't record him in his house because his wife didn't want it in there, so we went out to this little tool shed he had in back. After the Georgia Blues Today record came out, a lot of people wanted him to come to Europe and play, but you could not get him to travel. At one point he agreed to go to Holland, then at the last minute he decided he couldn't go. It was watermelon season, and he just could not leave those watermelons. ~ George Mitchell (from the liner notes) Photography by Jacques Henri Lartigue; Robert Doisneau; Dorothea Lange; Ray K. Metzker; Arno Fischer; Bert Hardy; Russell Lee; Elliott Erwitt; Tim Duffy: Jimmy Lee Williams, source: Music Maker Relief Foundation