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A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues with the electrified sound that was beginning to emerge in Chicago.
This book sets Bill’s extraordinary life and career in meticulously researched perspective. This giant of man—Big Bill Broonzy—deserves such a book, and Riesman is clearly the right man for the job. His affection for his subject is as evident as his respect.
22 de sept. de 2012 · I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy. Paperback – September 22, 2012. A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s.
1 de ene. de 2011 · Like a good historian, where details on Broonzy are sketchy, Riesman gives us the flavor of what life was like for African-Americans in Broonzy's time and the recording climate, from the lean Depression years to the 1942 recording ban, and lists societal statistics of the day.
15 de may. de 2011 · Interviews with Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Ray Davies reveal Broonzy’s profound impact on the British rockers who would follow him and change the course of...
1 de ene. de 2007 · Riesman's well-researched study of the life and work of Big Bill Broonzy is a delightful read and finally gives one of the most important blues artists his due.
This sharply etched portrait gives us a Big Bill Broonzy not so much larger than life as full of life, no less imposing, no less self-delighted, no less reliable than his own self-portrait, but freed for the first time from the encumbrance of myth and presented in all of his glorious, serendipitous, self-aware, and self-created multiplicity of ...
