All Music Guide: Big Joe Turner: Includes biography, related artists, and discography.
Cascade Blues Association: Big Joe Turner: Reprint of an article by Terry Currier that originally appeared in BluesNotes.
Club Kaycee: Kansas City Jazz History: Joseph Vernon Turner: Biography with photographs and audio samples.
Jared's Pick: Boss of the Blues: Review of the album released in 1956.
Kansas City Missouri History: Joe Turner: Hometown profile of the singer.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Big Joe Turner: Photograph and profile of the inductee.
Rock Before Elvis: Big Joe Turner: Profile, photographs, and audio samples.