BLUES BIG BILL BROONZY OKEH LABEL VINTAGE 78 RPM RECORD KEY TO THE HIGHWAY 1945
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YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN ORIGINAL BLUES RECORDING. 10 INCH DIAMETER 78RPM
BLUES VOCAL RECORDING BY BIG BILL BROONZY.
ACCOMP.. BY GUITAR ..HARMONICA..WASHBOARD AND BASS.
PRODUCED AND RECORDED ON THE OKEH LABEL 06242/C3741/C3745
SIDE A ...GREEN GRASS BLUES.
SIDE B....KEY TO THE HIGHWAY.
CONDITION IS GOOD WITH LIGHT SCRATCHES AND EDGE CHIP (SEE PICTURES) .
NOTE THIS RECORD HAS BEEN PLAYED AND TESTED ALL THE WAY AND PLAYS WELL FOR IT'S AGE.
Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893[1][2] or 1903[3][4] – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country music to mostly African-American audiences. In the 1930s and 1940s, he navigated a change in style to a more urban blues sound popular with working-class black audiences. In the 1950s, a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century.
Broonzy copyrighted more than 300 songs, including adaptations of traditional folk songs and original blues songs. As a blues composer, he was unique in writing songs that reflected his rural-to-urban experiences.[5]
Broonzy expanded his work during the 1940s as he honed his songwriting skills, which showed a knack for appealing to his more sophisticated city audience as well as people that shared his country roots. His work in this period shows he performed across a wider musical spectrum than almost any other bluesman before or since, including in his repertoire ragtime, hokum, country blues, urban blues, jazz-tinged songs, folk songs and spirituals. After World War II, Broonzy recorded songs that were the bridge that allowed many younger musicians to cross over to the future of the blues: the electric blues of postwar Chicago. His 1945 recordings of "Where the Blues Began", with Big Maceo on piano and Buster Bennett on sax, and "Martha Blues", with Memphis Slim on piano, clearly showed the way forward. One of his best-known songs, "Key to the Highway", appeared at this time. When the second American Federation of Musicians strike ended in 1948, Broonzy was signed by Mercury Records.[20]
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