BIG BILL BROONZY – The Rough Guide to Big Bill Broonzy: The Early Years – LP – Vinyl

LP -Black Vinyl.Lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques, this Rough Guide highlights his diverse repertoire from ragtime and hokum to traditional blues and other novelty songs.

Big Bill Broonzy was a trailblazing Chicago bluesman steeped in southern traditions, whose songs stretched genres from folk music to hokum and ragtime to country. These seminal recordings from his early years highlight his sublime guitar playing and ice cool vocal style which inspired a generation of legendary blues and rock musicians. Includes many of his early masterpieces including ‘Saturday Night Rub‘, ‘Brownskin Shuffle‘ and ‘Long Tall Mama‘ from his first creative wave during the late 1920s/early 1930s.

Lovingly remastered using pioneering restoration techniques, this Rough Guide highlights his diverse repertoire from ragtime and hokum to traditional blues and other novelty songs.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Long Tall Mama
2. How You Want It Done?
3. Mississippi River Blues
4. Skoodle Do Do
5. Worrying You Off My Mind – Part 1
6. Brownskin Shuffle
7. I Can’t Be Satisfied

Side B
1. Saturday Night Rub
2. Bull Cow Blues
3. Stove Pipe Stomp
4. Grandma’s Farm
5. Big Bill’s Blues
6. Pig Meat Strut
7. Mr. Conductor Man