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 Quotes
I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing 'em.
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| Birth: | 26th June, 1903 |
| Death: | 15th August, 1958 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Guitarist, Lyricist, Singer |
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Big Bill Broonzy was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly African-American audiences. Through the 1930s and 1940s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with working class African-American audiences.
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