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This forty-track double disc is one of the best of the many Big Bill Broonzy-compilations on the market, especially considering the price, and it does a great job summarizing Big Bill's thirty-year career. William Lee Conley Broonzy was a huge source of inspiration to many younger bluesmen, Muddy Waters and Memphis Slim among them, and once you've heard him do "I Can't Be Satisfied", "Worrying You...
I've only heard three tracks so far, but this new album by BB King looks and sounds "the business". Released in August and produced by T Bone Burnett, it features a set of old songs played by a band that includes Dr. John, Nathan East and Jim Keltner. The recording was done in the style of the fifties, and to my ears the tracks I've heard sound great - rather than have a load of guest musicians
"Big Bill" was born William Lee Conley Broonzy in Scott County, Mississippi, one of Frank Broonzy and Mittie Belcher's 17 children. Broonzy claimed he was born in 1893, and many sources report that year. But after his death his twin sister produced a birth certificate giving it as 1898, the currently accepted date. Soon after his birth the family moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, where Bill spent most...
Dive complained in a comment on a recent post on here that he didn't know much about current popular music because he is old. I'm nearly as old as him, and don't know very much about current popular music either. What I do know about it is a bit random. There comes a point in your life when it seems a bit unseemly to be "up" on, I dunno, bassline house, or whatever happens to be fashionable
A living and dynamic tradition, blues is forged in hard times but powerful enough to bring on the good times. Legends such as Lead Belly, Memphis Slim, Big Bill Broonzy, Elizabeth Cotten, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGhee, among others formed the "blues backbone" of Folkways Records. This compilation from the Smithsonian Folkways collection spans half a century and features Delta, St. Louis, Southwest,...
The targeting on Facebook advertising is starting to annoy me. Then again, I have only myself to blame. After all, the basic value of the Facebook experience is simple: you tell them everything you can bear to about yourself and...
If you is white, you's alright, if you's brown, stick around, but if you's black, hmm, hmm, brother, get back, get back, get back. -- "Get Back," Big Bill Broonzy Hillary Clinton says she is in it "until there is a nominee." As Clinton tries to wrest the Democratic nomination away from Barack Obama, she has put her trump card on the table: race . Clinton's comeback, such as it is, began in Pennsylvania....
Ian Menzies, who was born in Glasgow on March 2nd 1932 was six feet two inches tall which had no discernable bearing on his playing of the Trombone. He attended Victoria Drive Grammar School and was part of the Boys Brigade band; he played the tuba, euphonium and before taking up the 'slider'. Later he took lessons from members of The Scottish National Orchestra and then from Jack Mclean of the BBC...
Noah Cicero lives in Youngstown, Ohio, and is the author of the novels The Human War, The Condemned, Burning Babies and Treatise, and the e-books transmissions from noah x to tao x and The Living and the Dead. He has been anthologised in The Edgier Waters and ‘At Home by the Hudson’ is in 3:AM [...]
When Blind Boy Fuller recorded Get Your Yas Yas Out on a Saturday in late Autumn 1938 he could have had no idea that 32 years later people would be walking into there local record stores and asking for it. Well, not quite true, they were really asking for a new live album by the Rolling Stones, which they had named after Fuller’s recording. Born Fulton Allen in Wadesboro, North Carolina in 1908, he...
Think you're having a bad week? When a little perspective is in order, pop in this new compilation from Trikont (via Light in the Attic in the USA). As 1927-1945 predated the era of made-for-tv movies, the job of chronicling disaster was left to the writers of popular song. I have to admit, [...]
A Who's Who of blues legends got their start on a cigar box guitar--Lightnin’ Hopkins, Hound Dog Taylor, Big Bill Broonzy--and you can follow in their footsteps too. Detailed instructions to build your own can be found online, or take the easy way out and buy one ready made. Or just appreciate the ingenuity of musicians of the past in a gallery of vintage and antique instruments . P1040897.JPG Originally...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan 15 /PRNewswire/ -- It has been estimated that
blues great B.B. King has played more than 10,000 shows in a career
spanning nearly 60 years. Whenever the King of the Blues has carried his
venerable guitar Lucille onto any stage at any time, the performance has
become an unforgettable classic -- and on occasion has been immortalized on
some of the greatest live albums ever issued....
