I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill BroonzyA 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. |
Contents
1 Swing Low Sweet Chariot | 1 |
2 My Name Is William Lee Conley Broonzy | 6 |
3 When Will I Get to Be Called a Man? | 21 |
4 Lets Go Away from Here | 39 |
5 Im Gonna Play This Guitar Tonight from A to Z | 55 |
6 Serve It to Me Right | 70 |
7 State Street Boys | 83 |
8 Just a Dream | 91 |
14 Nourish Yourself on Big Bill | 156 |
15 Be Proud of What You Are | 167 |
16 Too Many Isms | 186 |
17 Low Light and Blue Smoke | 204 |
18 A Requiem for the Blues | 225 |
Epilogue | 247 |
Afterword | 257 |
Selected Discography | 259 |