Big Bill Broonzy - The Bill Broonzy Story (1999) 3CD Set

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Big Bill Broonzy - The Bill Broonzy Story (1999) 3CD Set
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Label: Verve | # 547 555-2 | Time: 03:23:52 | Scans ~ 111 Mb
Blues, Country Blues, Folk Blues, Acoustic Chicago Blues

Originally recorded in 1957, these sessions turned out to be the last the legendary Big Bill Broonzy would record; only a little over a year later, he succumbed to lung cancer. This collection consists not of fan or producer favorites, but Broonzy favorites, and includes a variety of blues, folk, and devotional music. Though he was instrumental to the development of the blues and the Chicago sound, much of the material on this three-disc set reaches back to the music that the blues came from, with a lot of drop-in help from Broonzy's friends, of which there were many. That makes these recordings not only recordings, but documentation, a testament to a bluesman who was at once musician and historian.

Review by Genevieve Williams

This three-CD set (originally five LPs) was a product of three recording sessions, held on July 12 and 13, 1957, immediately before Broonzy entered the hospital for surgery on the lung cancer that would end his career and take his life just a year later. He sounds in good enough spirits, and the voice and guitar are still in excellent form as he runs through the songs that evidently mattered most to him on those two days: "Key to the Highway," "Take This Hammer," "See See Rider," "Alberta," "Frankie and Johnny," "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and more than two dozen others. Producer Bill Randle didn't get a lot of the songs he'd hoped to record, such as "Stack O Lee" and "Night Time Is the Right Time," which Broonzy didn't want to sing, but he got enough for five LPs' worth of music out of the ten hours of recordings. (Did the rest survive, one wonders, and might there be anything that was left off that's worth hearing?) The sound is state of the art, with the singer and his solo acoustic guitar clean and close. The set is a vital and important document, as well as great listening, not only for the music but for Broonzy's between-song banter - he was one of the great raconteurs of the blues - although it isn't quite as indispensable as one might think.

Tracklist:

CD1:

01. Key To The Highway (02:32)
02. Dialogue (03:43)
03. Mindin' My Own Business (02:54)
04. Dialogue (00:53)
05. Saturday Evening Blues (03:17)
06. Dialogue (03:54)
07. South Bound Train (03:28)
08. Dialogue (03:31)
09. Tell Me What Kind Of Man Jesus Was (Ananias) (02:23)
10. Dialogue (00:28)
11. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (02:50)
12. Dialogue (00:54)
13. Joe Turner Blues (Vocal) (05:24)
14. Dialogue (02:03)
15. Joe Turner Blues (Instrumental) (01:02)
16. Dialogue (02:46)
17. Plowhand Blues (02:58)
18. Dialogue (03:42)
19. Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad (02:17)
20. Dialogue (05:50)
21. Makin' My Getaway (03:10)

CD2:

01. Dialogue (06:24)
02. Stump Blues (03:49)
03. Dialogue (09:41)
04. See See Rider (02:56)
05. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (02:17)
06. Dialogue (06:24)
07. This Train (03:03)
08. Dialogue (03:30)
09. Hush, Hush (04:13)
10. Dialogue (02:31)
11. Backwater Blues (04:06)
12. Slow Blues (02:53)
13. Dialogue (00:56)
14. It Hurts Me Too (02:04)
15. Dialogue (00:59)
16. Kansas City Blues (03:26)
17. Dialogue (01:56)
18. In The Evenin' (When The Sun Goes Down) (04:27)
19. Dialogue (00:06)

CD3:

01. Dialogue (02:35)
02. Worried Life Blues (02:23)
03. Dialogue (03:25)
04. Trouble In Mind (03:16)
05. Dialogue (04:13)
06. Take This Hammer (03:21)
07. Dialogue (01:11)
08. The Glory Of Love (02:30)
09. Dialogue (04:10)
10. Louise Blues (03:22)
11. Dialogue (04:31)
12. Willie Mae Blues (03:20)
13. Dialogue (01:09)
14. Alberta (02:57)
15. Old Folks Home (Swanee River) (01:53)
16. Dialogue (02:26)
17. Crawdad Song (02:44)
18. Dialogue (01:47)
19. John Henry (03:29)
20. Dialogue (00:49)
21. Just A Dream (On My Mind) (03:38)
22. Dialogue (00:54)
23. Frankie And Johnny (02:08)
24. Dialogue (04:38)
25. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home? (02:11)
26. Dialogue (00:18)
27. Hollerin' The Blues (08:19)

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