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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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;...
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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...
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Key to the Highway (category Big Bill Broonzy songs)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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many recordings to cut costs. The band included musicians such as Big Bill Broonzy, Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, and Sonny Boy Williamson. Many blues...
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musicians as T-Bone Walker, Memphis Slim, Little Brother Montgomery and Big Bill Broonzy. Her family frequently moved around the south side and, as she moved...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Hurts Me Too" (Tampa Red, 1940) "Key to the Highway" (Big Bill Broonzy, 1941) "Worried Life Blues" (Big Maceo, 1941) One variant using this progression is...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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superb timing and a distinctively sinuous voice. In the 1930s, she and Big Bill Broonzy had a nightclub act together. In 1940, she recorded her first session...
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include Softley, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Derroll Adams, Jesse Fuller, Big Bill Broonzy, Snooks Eaglin, Reverend Gary Davis and Davey Graham. MacLeod was an...
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by rehearsal excerpts from the summer of 1969, including covers of Big Bill Broonzy's "I Feel So Good" (featuring Stewart on guitar and Ronnie Wood on harmonica)...
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Frankie and Johnny (song) (category Big Bill Broonzy songs)
Greene. Later singers include: Brook Benton (#13CAN) Mike Bloomfield Big Bill Broonzy Mississippi Joe Callicott Johnny Cash Sam Cooke Frank Crumit Sammy...
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Billboard R&B Songs chart and number 60 on the Billboard Hot 100. Big Bill Broonzy (1957) - also used in the soundtrack of 2003 film Intolerable Cruelty...
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recorded for Okeh Records, and the following year he recorded with Big Bill Broonzy. Altogether, Jackson recorded 66 sides during his career. "Airy Man...
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Robert Johnson, migrated to Chicago in 1943, joining the established Big Bill Broonzy, where they developed a distinctive style of blues music. Joined by...
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