Release Date: 1991.
Recording Time: 65 minutes.
Recording Date: May 4, 1956 - May 6, 1956.
Release Info: Compilation (STCD 8017) Live Recording.
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Acoustic Chicago Blues, Blues Revival, Country Blues, Regional Blues.
Big-voiced Big Bill Broonzy was a fiddle-playing black musician who left the South in 1920 for Chicago. There, after learning guitar, he would play a major role in the urbanization of blues music. At the end of the 1940s he switched back to his original folk/blues style and started touring, often abroad. In Denmark he recorded this definitive album, fully exploiting his sudden freedom to sing political songs that were frowned upon back in the US.
Credits:
Arranged By – Big Bill Broonzy;
Executive Producer - Karl Emil Knudsen;
Guitar, Vocals – Big Bill Broonzy;
Written-By – Big Bill Broonzy, Traditional.
Tracklist:
01. I'm Going Down The Road - Big Bill Broonzy
02. This Train - Big Bill Broonzy
03. Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home - Big Bill Broonzy
04. A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - Big Bill Broonzy
05. Hey, Bub Blues - Big Bill Broonzy
06. Glory Of Love - Big Bill Broonzy
07. Careless Love - Big Bill Broonzy
08. I Gets The Blues When It Rains - Big Bill Broonzy
09. My Name Is William Lee Conley Broonzy - Big Bill Broonzy
10. Take This Hammer - Big Bill Broonzy
11. See See Rider - Big Bill Broonzy
12. Diggin' My Potatoes - Big Bill Broonzy
13. Midnight Special - Big Bill Broonzy
14. Keep Your Hands Off Her - Big Bill Broonzy
15. I Got A Girl - Big Bill Broonzy
16. You Better Mind - Big Bill Broonzy
17. I Love You So Much - Big Bill Broonzy
18. Sixteen Tons - Big Bill Broonzy
Personnel: Big Bill Broonzy - guitar, vocals.
Recorded May 4,5,6, 1956 Club Montmartre, Copenhagen.