BIg Bill's Blues - Big Bill Broonzy - a rare LP from 1956
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Big Bill Broonzy must have been the most recorded bluesman of all time. He was a kind of spark plug from 1928 for Chicago-based blues recording, a thriving scene until the musicians' union president James Petrillo screwed it up. Broonzy has eight pages of small print in Dixon and Godrich's Blues & Gospel Records, and this only takes us up to 1943, and doesn't include dates with other artists or several groups like the Hokum Boys. He had an outsized personality, could whoop and holler or croon, and liked to tell stories. On this LP he talks about the tea cakes his mama used to make, while the Texas Tornado is a woman unlike mama: 'Her eyes flash just like lightnin', she thunder when she talk--now when she grab a man, she turn him loose he can't walk.'
This album remains obscure for some reason; it's hard to find at Allmusic or Discogs. It was made in Holland in 1956, an informal session with just Big Bill and his guitar. There were Philips editions and it appeared in a special series on Columbia in the USA. The sleeve exhibits some shelf wear, but it's all in one piece; the record is in very good condition.
Big Bill's Blues - Big Bill Broonzy - Columbia WL 111 Bossie Woman - Texas Tornado - Tell Me What Kind Of Man Jesus Is - Trouble In Mind - See See Rider When I've Been Drinkin' - Martha - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Key To The Highway - Goodbye Baby Blues
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