or iTunes Price: $4.99 Genre: Blues Released: 1967 Customer Ratings () |
Big Bill Broonzy – Big Bill BroonzyBiographyBorn: June 26, 1893 in Scott, MSGenre: Blues Years Active: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s Big Bill Broonzy was born William Lee Conley Broonzy in the tiny town of Scott, Mississippi, just across the river from Arkansas. During his childhood, Broonzy's family — itinerant sharecroppers and the descendants of ex-slaves — moved to Pine Bluff to work the fields there. Broonzy learned to play a cigar box fiddle from his uncle, and as a teenager, he played violin in local churches, at community dances, and in a country string band. During World War I, Broonzy enlisted in the U.S....
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