Showing posts with label Big Bill Broonzy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Bill Broonzy. Show all posts
Sunday, September 09, 2018

Trouble In Mind (1926)

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One of the most celebrated blues of all time is Richard Jones' "Trouble in Mind." Here is the celebrated original rec...
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Five early blues guitar gems

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There is a 'blues revue" called "Ghosts of the Blues" whose notion of blues is pretty unimaginative and seems tailored fo...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Billy Boy Arnold's Heartfelt Big Bill Broonzy Tribute

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The last year and a half saw two books about the great Chicago-based blues artist big Bill Broonzy. Bob Riesman’s I Feel So Good , emerg...
Sunday, August 07, 2011

Josh White and Big Bill Come Visiting and Singing

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Empire Musicwerks issued back in 2007, Josh White Comes A-Visiting Big Bill Broonzy Comes A-Singing , which makes available on CD music orig...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Broonzy Biographer Bob Riesman Coming to DC's Politics and Prose July 7

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Since today is what would be the 98th Birthday of Big Bill Broonzy. it is appropriate to alert folks around Washington DC about the upcoming...
Monday, May 02, 2011

Bill Bill Broonzy celebrated in Two Biographies Part 2 - I Feel So Good

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Blues Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy Roger House 2010: Louisiana State University Press I Feel So Good: The Life and Ti...
Sunday, May 01, 2011

Bill Bill Broonzy celebrated in Two Biographies Part 1 - Blue Smoke

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Blues Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy Roger House 2010: Louisiana State University Press I Feel So Good: The Life and T...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Little Joe McLerran Strong Traditional Blues

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Listening to the opening field holler inspired fragment “ Ratty ,” followed by some Delta to Chicago slide guitar “ Believe I’ll Make a Chan...
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Mary Flower Beautifully Bridges Folk and Blues

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Here is a review that I wrote earlier this calendar year by a wonderful singer and guitarist, Mary Flower, one of the most accomplished fing...