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...

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Wood) "I Feel So Good" [Live at Fillmore East, New York 11/10/70] (Big Bill Broonzy) – 8:50 "Jerusalem" (instrumental) (Hubert Parry, William Blake – arr...

similarly named ensembles. The groups continued into the 1930s, with Big Bill Broonzy joining forces with Georgia Tom as Famous Hokum Boys on records for...

1940) was an American pianist who is remembered for accompanying Big Bill Broonzy, Lonnie Johnson, Sonny Boy Williamson and others on influential blues...

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

"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...

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...

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...

in Chicago in 1939 and began teaming with the guitarist and singer Big Bill Broonzy in clubs soon afterwards. In 1940 and 1941, he recorded two songs for...

Caston (1939), Lightnin' Hopkins (1947), John Lee Hooker (1949), and Big Bill Broonzy (1952). By the early 1950s, the song was reworked in contemporary musical...

Doyle (Davy 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...

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

1954 for Vanguard Records. While on tour in Europe he recorded with Big Bill Broonzy. Later in the 1950s, Sellers relocated to New York City, where he became...