I Feel So Good - The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy; .
The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
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A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues...
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A major figure in American blues and folk music, Big Bill Broonzy (1903–1958) left his Arkansas Delta home after World War I, headed north, and became the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. His success came as he fused traditional rural blues with the electrified sound that was beginning to emerge in Chicago. This, however, was just one step in his remarkable journey: Big Bill was constantly reinventing himself, both in reality and in his retellings of it. Bob Riesmanÿs groundbreaking biography tells the compelling life story of a lost figure from the annals of music history.
I Feel So Good traces Big Billÿs career from his rise as a nationally prominent blues star, including his historic 1938 appearance at Carnegie Hall, to his influential role in the post-World War II folk revival, when he sang about racial injustice alongside Pete Seeger and Studs Terkel. Riesmanÿs account brings the reader into the jazz clubs and concert halls of Europe, as Big Bill's overseas tours in the 1950s ignited the British blues-rock explosion of the 1960s. Interviews with Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, and Ray Davies reveal Broonzyÿs profound impact on the British rockers who would follow him and change the course of popular music.
Along the way, Riesman details Big Billÿs complicated and poignant personal saga: he was married three times and became a father at the very end of his life to a child half a world away. He also brings to light Big Billÿs final years, when he first lost his voice, then his life, to cancer, just as his international reputation was reaching its peak. Featuring many rarely seen photos, I Feel So Good will be the definitive account of Big Bill Broonzyÿs life and music.
Autoren-Porträt von Bob Riesman, Peter Guralnick, Pete Townshend
Bob Riesman is coeditor of Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage. He produced and cowrote the television documentary American Roots Music: Chicago, and was a contributor to Routledge's Encyclopedia of the Blues.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Bob Riesman , Peter Guralnick , Pete Townshend
- 2012, 368 Seiten, Maße: 15,2 x 22,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: University of Chicago Press
- ISBN-10: 022600709X
- ISBN-13: 9780226007090
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Bob Riesman's account of Broonzy's career in Chicago, Paris, London, and later on the US folk circuit with Peter Seeger and others, is as dense and detailed as it is clear and straightforward.... I Feel So Good is a well-written, beautifully produced account of a life lived in performance." (Times Literary Supplement)"
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