Amsterdam Live Concerts 1953 [BOX SET] [LIVE]

Big Bill Broonzy

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 12, 2006)
• Original Release Date: June 19, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Box set, Live
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• Label: Munich
• ASIN: B000FVRRAA
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #355,584 in Music (See Bestsellers 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

"In terms of his musical skill, the sheer size of his repertoire, the length and variety of his career, and his influence on contemporaries and musicians who would follow, Big Bill Broonzy is among a select few of the most important figures in recorded blues history … in this country he was instrumental in the growth of the Chicago Blues sound, and his travels abroad rank him as one of the leading blues ambassadors." – All Music Guide

Unique, never-before-released recordings–twenty-four tracks and nearly two hours! This 2XCD box set includes a forty-eight-page book that features stories about Big Bill Broonzy’s experiences in Europe, as well as dozens of unpublished pictures.

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