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Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things.


Big Bill Broonzy


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His work in this period shows he performed across a wider musical spectrum than almost any other bluesman before or since including ragtime hokum blues country blues city blues jazz tinged songs folk songs and spirituals. In Europe Broonzy was greeted with standing ovations and critical praise wherever he played. He toured worldwide to Africa South America the Pacific region and across Europe into early 1956.

Big Bill Broonzy (June 26 1893 – August 15 1958) was a prolific American blues singer songwriter and guitarist. As a blues composer he was unique in that his compositions reflected the many vantage points of his rural-to-urban experiences. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly African-American audiences.

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