Studs Turkel: A working man till the end Nov 3, 2008
" He loved music as much as politics and history. They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey (2005) collected his radio interviews with musicians from Bob Dylan to the bluesman Big Bill Broonzy. And he loved live radio, appearing several times on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion. Saturday, Keillor sang a musical obit. Terkel's career as an oral historian began when Schiffrin, then editing Pantheon Books, suggested he write a book like Jan Myrdal's Report From a Chinese... (USA Today)
Hogan's heroes? Anyone who can play blues. Jun 27, 2008
"I've been accused of being a purist myself," says the 28-year-old host, professing a fondness for classic cuts by Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, and Big Bill Broonzy ... "Trouble in Mind," Big Bill Broonzy (Smithsonian/Folkways). (Boston Globe)
Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll May 23, 2008
Not far from here are the banks of the Mississippi, and later that afternoon I am driving across the water, listening to Big Bill Broonzy singing his Mississippi River Blues: "Mississippi River/ Is so long, deep and wide/ I can see my good girl/ Standin' on that other side." Broonzy was a Mississippi boy who, like many musicians of his generation, headed upriver to Chicago in the 1920s in search of opportunity. He has a clear, rounded voice, and a teaky guitar style that fills the car. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Arlo Guthrie fishes for Dylan May 20, 2008
Guthrie displayed his blues guitar skill with an old Big Bill Broonzy song. Broonzy in the early 1950s toured with a folk music revue with Dowagiac visitor Studs Terkel, who just turned 96. (Dowagiac News, MI)
BET Networks Celebrates Black History Month With an Entertaining Lineup of Music Specials, Blackbuster Movie Premieres, and Ground-Breaking Documentaries Jan 24, 2008
The film includes memorable footage of some of the blues' greatest players -- Son House, Bessie Smith, Jimmy Rushing, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Madonna in the Rock Hall? Seriously? Dec 14, 2007
She probably wouldnt know Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy, Muddy Waters or Howlin Wolf if they toured with her as dancers. Although she has had a glorious career, she is not part of that tradition. (MSNBC -- Music)
Guitar God, mortal man Nov 5, 2007
By the time he reached 16, Clapton writes, he was "quite proficient as a player," learning the fingerpicking techniques of Delta blues legends Big Bill Broonzy and Jimmy Reed. By 1963, Clapton was a member of the Yardbirds and touring the world. (Toronto Star)
Bluegrass angel teams with Zeppelin frontman Oct 31, 2007
Plant has borrowed from American roots music throughout his career, particularly blues artists like Robert Johnson and Big Bill Broonzy. Once I heard the music of the Mississippi Delta, I was no longer English. (MSNBC -- Music)
Clapton's recollections obscured by drugs Oct 20, 2007
He taught himself guitar at 14, listening first to rockabilly, then the blues greats, particularly Big Bill Broonzy and Robert Johnson. Of his first electric guitar, he explains it was "a double-cutaway semi-acoustic Kay ? cut away on both side of the neck to allow easy access up the neck to the higher frets. ? Though advertised as Sunburst, which would have been a golden orange going to dark red at the edges, it was more yellowy, going to a sort of pink." Hardly ever does he write about any of... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Post forms Blues Alliance Apr 18, 2007
It featured Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Lightnin Hopkins, Big Bill Broonzy and other musician active in the blues revival of the time. "It was nothing planned," says Post, whose themes for television shows -- "Rockford Files," "Hill Street Blues," "Law " -- are among the best known of the genre. (Variety)
Jacobs: Wynton Marsalis Review Apr 8, 2007
Jacobs' essay on Big Bill Broonzy is featured in CounterPunch's new collection on music, art and sex. He can be reached at. (Zmag.org)
10 things to do this weekend Apr 6, 2007
LISTEN. Devil in a Woodpile, Ella Jenkins and others will play a TRIBUTE TO BIG BILL BROONZY, who performed on the opening night of the original the Old Town School of Folk Music. The honorary concert is part of the school's 50th Anniversary celebration. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Acoustic blues performance set at museum Mar 16, 2007
He also taught acoustic blues at the legendary Old Town School of Folk Music where Big Bill Broonzy once taught workshops. Blues Revue magazine said: "Eric Noden is a foot-stomping, guitar-banging acoustic bluesman whose disc is full of tasty licks and hearty vocals.". (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
They're headed in 'pure blues direction' Mar 5, 2007
They also play ragtime, gospel and jug-band music, and their enthusiastic performances mix their self-penned blues songs with vintage tunes by such pioneers as Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, Sonny Boy Williamson and Blind Boy Fuller. Rather than try to update the vibrant idioms they play to make them sound contemporary, James and Hernandez stay true to their roots. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Van takes an aisle seat Feb 23, 2007
References to Coleridge, Yeats and Kerouac bop up regularly alongside tips of the porkpie hat to Jackie Wilson, Big Bill Broonzy and Gene Vincent. Until now, however, Morrison's cinematic influences and filmmaking heroes haven't popped up much in the press or on the disc or stage. (Variety)
