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Big Bill Broonzy

 

Blues and Jazz

Recording Sessions Guitarist in Chicago

Played Carnegie Hall around 1939.

Incredible guitarist, singer and Song Writer

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Big Bill Broonzy is one of the All Time Great Blues Musicians, but he also played Jazz. Big Bill Also Played a lot of Recording Sessions in Chicago. He is one of my very Favorite Country Blues Artists. If you want to read something really prolific, read "Big Bill's Blues," an Autobiography Written by Big Bill Himself. "Big Bill's Blues" is in most good size Libraries, and I saw it in the Tower Records Stores.

I first heard Big Bill Broonzy when I was working in a Collectible Record Shop in St. Louis. How I loved the Acoustic Finger Style Blues he Recorded in the 50s, just before he died. So I started looking for more Big Bill Broonzy Recordings. I found them for Bill was recorded much in his life time.

 

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Big Bill Went from poverty to affluence, back to poverty, many times in his lifetime. In the mid 30s he had 15 suits of clothes and a Cadillac Car. He was on top of the world. By the 1938, he was down on his luck again.

When he was called to appear in the Madison Square Garden, around 1938, he told the man he had no money to get there, and he had no shoes to wear if he could get to New York. Well the man sent him some money, and Bill Bought some shoes and went to New York and appeared in Madison Square Garden. Then he started being an affluent man again.

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During the 40s he was riding high again. The Music Business was his once more. Then about 1950, Bill was down on his luck again. He took a Janitorial Job at a College in Iowa. Many of the Students knew what a famous Blues Musician he was and befriended him. The Students at the College taught Bill Broonzy to read and write. Bill was born to parents who had been slaves.

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Big Bill Broonzy had a wonderful spirit. He believed that having friends in this world was worth more than money. He meant to be happy, and he was happy.

 

Bill Broonzy was once a Preacher. He would go to Preaching, then he would go to Music. A friend told him he needed to quit straddling the fence. Bill said in his book that he would have continued being a Preacher, and dropped Music, but he could not read, so he could not really know the Bible and Teach it.

So Big Bill was offered a good job in Chicago and he took it. In Chicago Big Bill went from Fiddle to Guitar. Then he started doing great in the Music Business.

 

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When Big Bill was working at the College in Iowa, some friends called him and told him that his kind of music was big once more. Bill was an acoustic Guitarist and the Electric Blues that came in had made it hard for him to get work. So Bill went back to Chicago and was once more in the money.

In the 50s, Bill Toured Europe. He was one of the First Bluesmen to do that. However, Bill could play Jazz also, he was not really confined to the Blues. Bill could play many kinds of Music, but he was basically an Acoustic Guitarist.

I thought Big Bill had always done the Finger Style Rural Blues. But when I started buying his Records, I discovered that in his earlier years he had not recorded much Finger Style Blues. Bill Started doing the Finger Style Blues heavy duty when he went back to Chicago in the 50s.

From the time Bill left his Janitorial Job at the College in Iowa, until he died, he was in financially good condition, and was very successful in Music. From studying his life, and especially from reading the Autobiography that Big Bill Broonzy wrote, I could not help concluding that he was a happy man that people loved.

Big Bill refused to hate anyone. He thought loving your fellow human being was one of the most important things in the world. That must have come somewhat from his days of Preaching. But it was his true Philosophy, and he lived it, and loved living it.

Many Blues Players left their drinking and singing and went back to Preaching. Bill Said that many of the Blues Players would run down those who left music and started Preaching again. Bill said that he never felt bad towards those who left the Music Night Life and went back to Preaching. He said that he often went to see his old friends who had been Musicians in Chicago, when they went back to Preaching.

From what I have read on Big Bill, he loved women, and the women loved him. I would tend to think that he was never without a woman who loved him. He said he loved his Drinking and Playing with the Women. Playing Music affords one much opportunity to meet women who are turned on Big by Musicians.

Though Big Bill knew the Big Cities of New York and Chicago, Bill said that he loved to get back to Arkansas and Mississippi. He said he loved the South where he was raised.

Bill took his bad times Philosophically. He said in his book, Big Bill Blues:

"Life is like a highway. Sometimes it goes to the left, and sometimes it goes to the right. Sometimes it goes up hill, and sometimes it goes down hill. And sometime it's just straight and level." There is tremendous understanding of life in that statement. No doubt Big Bill Broonzy understood life, maybe better than many people who had high College Degrees.

 

Big Bill Broonzy was a wonderful man. He had love and compassion in his heart.

I would have loved to have met Big Bill in Real Life and see and hear him Play his wonderful Guitar and Sing. I know he must have been a dynamic Player to see in person.

As you might tell from my writing on Big Bill, I admire him greatly, as a Musician, and as a Man.

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