Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893 or 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His career...

Waters Sings "Big Bill" is the first studio album, but second overall album, by blues musician Muddy Waters, featuring songs by Big Bill Broonzy, released...

Please" (Billy Swan) by Clyde McPhatter "M & O Blues" (Big Bill Broonzy) by Big Bill Broonzy "Mail Train Blues, The" (Blair, Lethwick) by Sippie Wallace...

Big Bill is a nickname that may refer to: Bill Abstein (1883–1940), American Major League Baseball and amateur soccer player Bill Bachrach (1879–1959)...

Trouble in Mind is an album by American blues musician Big Bill Broonzy. It was released on February 22, 2000 by Smithsonian Folkways. The album consists...

performing at night. Big Bill Broonzy, then one of the leading bluesmen in Chicago, had Muddy open his shows in the rowdy clubs where Broonzy played. This gave...

released Sings Big Bill Broonzy (1960), a collection of Muddy Waters' interpretations of songs by the blues musician Big Bill Broonzy. When he performed...

Fahey, Ralph McTell, David Bromberg, Leon Redbone and many others. Big Bill Broonzy, hearing Blake in person in the early 1920s, said of his guitar playing...

their "sweet mamas" or as Morton called them "fifth-class whores". Big Bill Broonzy claimed that "when he was about 9 or 10—that is, around 1908, in the...

Barkin' Bill Smith Barrelhouse Buck McFarland Barrelhouse Chuck Gary B.B. Coleman B. B. King Big Al Carson Big Bad Smitty Big Bill Broonzy Big Bill Morganfield...

Quartet, James P. Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Terry. The idea was a history, starting with spirituals and leading up to big swing bands, involving...

the album Common Ground, consisting of their versions of songs by Big Bill Broonzy. It was the first studio collaboration of the brothers since the mid-1980s...

"Too Many Drivers" is a blues song recorded by Big Bill Broonzy in 1939. It is performed in an acoustic ensemble-style of early Chicago blues and the lyrics...

Presley, "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" by Édith Piaf and "Glory of Love" by Big Bill Broonzy. Tracks by Carter Burwell unless otherwise noted. "The Boxer" (Simon...

Big Bill Broonzy is a studio album by rock musicians Dave and Phil Alvin, released in 2014. The album is a tribute to the songs of Big Bill Broonzy;...

pianist Charlie Segar first recorded the song in 1940. Jazz Gillum and Big Bill Broonzy followed with recordings in 1940 and 1941, using an arrangement that...

Retrieved 2 December 2017. "I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy by Bob Riesman, an excerpt". Press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 24 November...

1935. An anecdote from Big Bill Broonzy's autobiography, Big Bill Blues, recounts a cutting contest between Minnie and Broonzy in a Chicago nightclub...

Go" with credit going to Broonzy (Big Bill Broonzy). Broonzy recorded a cover of the song in 1952, but it was in fact "Big" Joe Williams who wrote the...

meaning sexual intercourse without any preliminary 'love-making'. Big Bill Broonzy stated "Shave 'em dry is what you call makin' it with a woman; you...

many recordings to cut costs. The band included musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy, Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, and Sonny Boy Williamson. Many blues...

Robert Johnson, migrated to Chicago in 1943, joining the established Big Bill Broonzy, where they developed a distinctive style of blues music. Joined by...

mama" to bluesman Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, who recorded a song with this title in 1944. He likely got it from a Big Bill Broonzy recording "Rockin' Chair...

Greene. Later singers include: Brook Benton (#13CAN) Mike Bloomfield Big Bill Broonzy Mississippi Joe Callicott Johnny Cash Sam Cooke Frank Crumit Sammy...

performers included popular black musicians of the era, such as Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy and Leroy Carr. An important label of this era was the Chicago-based...

bottleneck technique influenced other Chicago blues guitarists such as Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Nighthawk, Muddy Waters, and Elmore James. In a career spanning...

audition for Grossman, who then asked: "Do you know who works here? Big Bill Broonzy works here. Josh White works here. Now tell me why I should hire you...

blues-oriented style, was inspired by artists such as Lead Belly and Big Bill Broonzy. Two versions were recorded, with the second performance used for the...

attributed the lyrics of "Rock Me, Mama" to Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup who in turn attributed them to Big Bill Broonzy. Both "Rock Me, Mama" and "Sweet Amarillo"...

Doyle (Davey Graham's half-sister), who introduced him to the music of Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger, Brownie McGhee and Woody Guthrie. He also met and shared...