Please Join us for our next Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture!
I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, a book talk by Bob Riesman.
November 16, 2012, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building
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 Riesman's groundbreaking biography tells the compelling life story of a lost figure from the annals of music history.
I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, a book talk by Bob Riesman.
November 16, 2012, 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building
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 Riesman's groundbreaking biography tells the compelling life story of a lost figure from the annals of music history.