⬇️ BIG BILL BROONZY ⬇️
(William Lee Conley 'Broonzy' Bradley)
(William Lee Conley 'Broonzy' Bradley)
DISCOGRAPHY 1935-2025 (153CD/DVD)
Like many veterans after the Second World War, Big Bill Broonzy went
to college to get an education. However, Broonzy’s stint at Iowa State
University differed from most other GIs. First, he served in the US
Army during World War I rather than World War II.
More significantly, he worked at the school as a janitor rather than attended as a student. Still, Broonzy learned an important scholastic skill while at Iowa State. Some Cyclone undergraduates taught Big Bill how to read and write in exchange for him showing them some guitar licks.
BIOGRAPHY
William Lee Conley Broonzy Bradley, blues singer and
guitarist.
Born: June 26, 1893 or 1903 in Scott County, Mississippi
Died: August 14 or 15, 1958 in Chicago (throat cancer)
More significantly, he worked at the school as a janitor rather than attended as a student. Still, Broonzy learned an important scholastic skill while at Iowa State. Some Cyclone undergraduates taught Big Bill how to read and write in exchange for him showing them some guitar licks.
Such was the situation of one of America’s finest blues artists in the
late 1940s. Broonzy had been a popular guitar player and singer in
Chicago during the 1920s. By the time of the Great Depression, he was a
major artist on the Windy City blues scene who worked with other
luminaries like Memphis Minnie, Tampa Red, Lonnie Johnson and Sonny Boy
Williamson.
Critics consider Broonzy one of the main inventors of the electric
blues sound, which was later popularized as the Chicago Blues as
performed by Muddy Waters and other artists on the Chess record label.
Big Bill performed before a white audience for the first time in 1938 as
part of John Hammond’s famous Spiritual and Swing concert at Carnegie
Hall in New York City..... (Wikipedia)
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