I feel so good [electronic resource] : the life and times of Big Bill Broonzy / Bob Riesman ; foreword by Peter Guralnick ; appreciation by Pete Townshend.
Riesman, Bob.
2011
ML420.B78 R54 2011eb
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Title I feel so good [electronic resource] : the life and times of Big Bill Broonzy / Bob Riesman ; foreword by Peter Guralnick ; appreciation by Pete Townshend.
Author Riesman, Bob.
ISBN 9780226717487 (electronic bk.)
9780226717456
0226717453
Publication Details Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxv, 324 p.) : ill.
Call Number ML420.B78 R54 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 782.421643092 B
Summary 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, however, was just one step in his remarkable journey: Big Bill was constantly reinventing himself, both in reality and in his retellings of it. Bob Riesman's groundbreaking biography tells the compelling life story of a lost figure from the annals of music history.
He was one of the most celebrated blues artists of his era, a visionary Chicago singer-songwriter in the 1930s; his overseas tours in the 1950s ignited the British blues-rock explosion of the 1960s. But Big Bill Broonzy has been virtually forgotten by the popular culture he helped shape. Riesman details Big Bill's complicated personal saga, and provides a definitive account of his life and music.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Swing low, sweet chariot
My name is William Lee Conley Broonzy
When will I get to be called a man?
Let's go away from here!
"I'm gonna play this guitar tonight from A to Z!"
Serve it to me right
State Street boys
Just a dream
Big Bill and Josh are here to play the blues for you
Preachin' the blues
Blues at midnight
"That's the nicest guy I ever met in my life"
Stranger in a strange land
Nourish yourself on Big Bill
"Be proud of what you are!"
Too many isms
Low light and blue smoke
"A requiem for the blues"
Epilogue
Afterword
Selected discography
Bill on film.

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