Amsterdam Live Concerts 1953 [Box set]

Big Bill Broonzy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Munich
• ASIN: B000FVRRAA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,539 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Think of Big Bill Broonzy as Leadbelly with sharper teeth. Like the seminal Texas strummer, Broonzy worked in the songster tradition, using guitar purely as accompaniment to his storytelling rather than a means of virtuosic expression. But Broonzy's political lyrics--especially the famed color-line critique "Black, Brown, and White," with its warning "if you're black, get back"--are more direct. So are his onstage observations about racism and poverty in America in the two just-unveiled concerts on this two-disc set. As the liner notes explain, gin and the warmth of Broonzy's audience loosened the native Mississippian's lips on these nights. Nonetheless, his openhearted delivery of originals like "Just a Dream," later covered by his disciple Muddy Waters, and the standard repertoire of the early folk-blues era ("Midnight Special," Leroy Carr's "When the Sun Goes Down") is on the mark. An improvised stab at "Guitar Rag" and a "Happy Birthday" to a new acquaintance testify to the informality of these sets. They also lend breadth to a rare self-portrait of this highly influential bluesman as an inspired entertainer. --Ted Drozdowski

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Product Description

Rare Previously Unreleased Historical Solo Live Recordings from Amsterdam in 1953. Housed in 6x12 Packaging with a Deluxe 48 Page Booklet that Has Extensive Liner Notes and Many Rare Unseen Historical Photos. The Between Song Banter with the Audience Gives the Listener a Unique Perspective Into the Soul of the Man. Any Blues Or Broonzy Fan Will Want this One.

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