The Big Bill Broonzy Story came at a time when there was an explosion of interest in blues and folk music from predominantly white audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Producer Bill Randle ...

Big Bill Broonzy was a giant of the 1930s urban blues, and someone that just about ... It’s something that many other singers that followed found worked for them too. In 1938 he appeared at ...

Blues music emerged at the start of the twentieth century from ... I Feel So Good is the first full biography of one of these major figures. Big Bill Broonzy was born in 1903 into a large and ...

And it was the greatest Blues town. You know, you had people like Leo Green, Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red ... existing in this magical space that she would have created through her music.

He later began to listen to guitarists Big Bill Broonzy and Leadbelly ... British musicians became some of the first white people to take on American blues music. This ultimately was a factor in what ...