Walk into any record store looking for a Big Joe Turner album and you just might find it anywhere. Joe has been called the "Boss of the Blues" and the "World's Greatest Blues Shouter," but he is also considered a major part of early Rock 'n' Roll. He is www.cascadeblues.org/History/BigJoeTurner.htm
Big Joe Turner (b. Kansas City, 1911; d. 1985) started out as a blues shouter in the pre-microphone days, and sang the blues during seven decades (1920's to 1980's). www.hyzercreek.com/hoyhoy/bigjoe.htm
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Big Joe Turner. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_Turner
