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The Unemployment Blues

I have always thought that blues music reflects what is going on in the US well. Right now unemploym

RE-POST BLUES SYNDICATE Nº 7

BLUES SYNDICATE Nº 7 1- Sintonia Mr. Hurricane Band 2- Crossroads – Elmore James 02.58 3- The t

11 settembre 1904 - Jazz Gillum, il socio di Big Bill Broonzy

L'11 settembre 1904 nasce a Indianola, nel Mississippi, il cantante e armonicista blues Jazz Gillum,

Artists Biography : Muddy Waters

Biography of the biggest Chicago blues player, the master Muddy Waters.... (Black Rebel - Muddy Waters

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Biography Big Bill Broonzy

Big Bill Broonzy (26 June 1893 – 15 August 1958) was a prolific American blues singer and guitarist. Career "Big Bill" was born William Lee Conley Broonzy in Scott County, Mississippi on 26 June 1893. Broonzy left Mississippi in 1924 and arrived in Chicago, where he met Papa Charlie Jackson, who taught him to play guitar (Broonzy had previously been a fiddler). Broonzy first recorded as a self-accompanied singer in 1929, and continued to record in that style. Around 1936, he became one of the first blues singers to use a small instrumental group, including "traps" (drums) and acoustic bass as well as one or more melody instruments (horns and/or harmonica). These discs were usually issued as Big Bill and his Chicago Five. At that time, Broonzy was recording for the American Record Corporation on their line of less expensive labels (Melotone, Perfect Records, et al). In 1939, ARC was acquired b