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Terry "Big T" Williams is the most recent addition to the River to the Rails music lineup. Now playing for over two decades, the style of this bluesman born just outside Clarksdale is described as falling "somewhere between Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy and another world." He is known for sliding across the stage in energetic performances.

"Big T" Williams has lived more Blues than a dozen Bluesmen. After seeing regional success in the 80's and 90's, Williams fell prey to a drug addiction that ultimately landed him in Mississippi's notorious Parchman Farm. He emerged six years later and immediately immersed himself in the music that had been his drive and his salvation. Hired by Morgan Freeman as the first musical director for Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, MS, Terry served as the house band there for a year. He left Ground Zero to start his own club, and he has operated his own juke joints sporadically for the last four years.

Terry's influence is felt in a new generation of Delta guitar players who have studied under him in his role as a teacher in the Delta Blues Museum's education programs, testament to Terry's guitar prowess and his skill as a communicator and mentor.

Terry's influences range from the deepest traditional Blues to disco, funk, and hip-hop. His music is forceful and compelling -- he can have an entire party grooving within minutes. In his prime now at 42, Terry represents the current state of Blues in the Mississippi Delta -- and the state of his Blues is strong.

-- This article is from an unidentified source via Andy Hackleman.