Big Bill Broonzy Do That Guitar Rag

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Big Bill Broonzy: Do That Guitar Rag

Audiophile Blues LP-Record on YAZOO RECORDS by Big Bill Broonzy - Do That Guitar Rag

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Interpret: Big Bill Broonzy
Album titlle: Do That Guitar Rag
Label YAZOO
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Edition 2 Audiophile Blues LP-Records
Artikelart LP
EAN: 2500002152854
weight in Kg 0.3

Broonzy, Big Bill - Do That Guitar Rag LP 1
01	Bull Cow Blues	Big Bill Broonzy
02	Worrying You Off My Mind (Part 1)	Big Bill Broonzy
03	Pig Meat Strut	Big Bill Broonzy
04	Terrible Operation Blues	Big Bill Broonzy
05	Guitar Rag	Big Bill Broonzy
06	Pussy Cat Blues	Big Bill Broonzy
07	C & A Blues	Big Bill Broonzy
08	Mr=Conductor Man	Big Bill Broonzy
09	Big Bill Blues	Big Bill Broonzy
10	Leave My Man Alone	Big Bill Broonzy
11	Down In The Basement	Big Bill Broonzy
12	Grandma's Farm	Big Bill Broonzy
13	Double Trouble Blues	Big Bill Broonzy
14	Skoodle Do Do	Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy & His Rhythm Band Of all the blues immortals featured on this... more

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Big Bill Broonzy & His Rhythm Band

Of all the blues immortals featured on this compilation, Big Bill Broonzy was one of the very few born in the 19^th Century: June 26, 1898, in Scott, Mississippi. But Big Bill was no grizzled stick in the mud; when electric guitars came in, he was one of the first Chicago bluesmen to grab hold of one (at least until he toured Paris and London in 1951, where he reverted to his solo acoustic ways and somehow convinced his new European fans that he was the last surviving American bluesman).

William Lee Conley Broonzy started out sawing a fiddle, switching to guitar after he moved to Chicago in 1920 and hooked up with medicine show veteran Papa Charlie Jackson. Soon Big Bill was recording for Paramount, debuting with House Rent Stomp in 1928. When he wasn't going by Big Bill (no last name back then) on shellac, he masqueraded as Big Bill Johnson, Sammy Sampson, and Big Bill Broomsley. Broonzy worked with some fine pianists—Black Bob, Joshua Altheimer, Blind John Davis, Memphis Slim—and eventually graduated to full band backing during the late '30s and early '40s, when he cut some of his all-time classics for producer Lester Melrose: Just A Dream (On My Mind), When I Been Drinking, I Feel So Good, Key To The Highway, and the houserocking All By Myself.

Broonzy stuck with an R&B-laced combo format during his postwar years at Columbia. Rambling Bill, waxed December 19, 1947 in the Windy City, was billed to Big Bill & His Rhythm Band, consisting of trumpeter John Morton, alto saxist Sax Mallard, tenor saxman Bill Casimir, pianist Bob Call, bassist Ransom Knowling, and drummer Judge Riley. Broonzy wields his electric axe, though he keeps it turned down to a polite level as he struts his stuff. The ubiquitous Melrose was still in charge. "Lester Melrose was a go-between man between Columbia, several different companies," noted the late Willie Dixon.

Broonzy made a couple of full band dates for Mercury in 1949 before embarking for Europe and drastically changing his concept to a rural folk-blues mindset. Apart from three marathon sessions in late '51 for Mercury and a tough little '53 Chess date with longtime cohort Washboard Sam, Big Bill's studio bandleading days were over. He was the first bluesman to write his memoirs in 1955 before throat cancer stilled his powerful voice, finishing him off on August 15, 1958. Muddy Waters, one of many bluesmen Broonzy graciously welcomed to the Windy City when they first hit town, cut a tribute album for Chess the next year.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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