This was filmed the day before Bill, went into hospital, to be operated upon for the cancer.That took him away from us.My dad and Bill were extremely close and devoted friends. Bill was my beginning in blues sounds. He was the very very best man.As my Daddy often remarked. Rest in peace Bill.You were loved, and are loved by many many people always remembered.By those that you were so kind to.In this life.Especially by a little boy, who is now an old man, with a guitar singing your songs.To keep your legacy alive and vibrant....!!!!.
The "British Invasion" of British rock bands in the mid 1960s probably wouldn't have happened without Big Bill Broonzy's influence. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones always cites him as an influence, so does Eric Clapton, and others. Sounds like he happened to be a genuine, good man, even more importantly. Thanks for sharing that story with us. I'm blown away by the man's Delta blues style.
Thank you for that touching and informative comment. It is always nice to have it confirmed that Bill coming across to me as a gentleman, was indeed true.
Also, is there anything else you'd be willing tell me (or us or the world or the internet) about yourself, your father, or Bill? There's so much history, so much that deserves to be remembered, and so little that's actually recorded. I've love to read anything you'd like to share.
I was thirteen and I was there at Circle Pines when Big Bill played this. Pete Seeger was there too. It's still reverberating sixty three years later, how good sound can sound....
My friend Bob Shafritz from Philly was at Circle Pines that summer as well; do you remember him? He passed away about 20 years ago, so I would love to talk to someone who knew him. I knew his whole family many years ago--we were very close during high school and beyond. Richard Lenatsky
IM A CAMPER AT CPC RN. I see all the photos of big bill on the wall and after seeing this it really makes me wish I’d been able to see him play live. Great artist.
Although it was the day before his throat-cancer surgery, on that day he sang with a smile. He requested Pete Seegar(folk singer and the author of this video) who was visiting the tourist camp he was staying, to record him. Maybe he thought he would lose his voice after.... And he most likely did. The last performance of the Big B,
Really appreciate the little snippets of information you tube viewers give such as this performance and Big Bill's surgery. I have been a fan for forty years and didn't know this about Bill. Keep it coming, cheers from Australia.
This is a era of music that is rapidly disappearing,I just dream of these guys sitting on the porch playing cooking crawdads drinking whiskey & beer. Ohh how wish I could have been there. Thank you.
Man these were professional musicians ... OK Robert Johnson & co had to be like hobos, but later but Bill, Minnie, Tampa, those ones, they were not rich but were full time. If you want your romantic ideal :) yes they existed too ... Peg Leg Howell, Little Hat Jones, Nappy Brown, King Solomon Hill, the fantastic great players who recorded a few sides and vanished again.
Guitar legend "Alvin Lee" (19 December 1944 - March 6 2013) "My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old"
This is amazing, considering he was 64 years old when the film was shot (he doesn't look a day over 40), and suffering from cancer, with only one year left to live, yet he sounds so perfectly wonderful. Simply amazing.
It's amazing that he was in his mid fifties in this video, he looks much younger. Sadly he actually died just a year after this recording, from throat cancer.
Kind of Ironic to thumbs up your comment.. I didn’t know that’s how he went, nor when... and damn, that’s ironic too, what took him... being the singer he was just a year prior. what a natural bluesman he was and will always be to me. Thanks for the information.
The first song is “Stump Blues,” featured on The Big Bill Broonzy Story, recorded in ‘57. Dialogue tracks of the conversations between Big Bill and Bill Randle have a fantastic description of the song and it’s history
How humble and unassuming he is. Sitting on a porch, flies buzzing 'round his head while he lays down some incredible blues. No bling, bling just passion, artistry and talent. One of the fathers of modern music. Today's artists should tip their caps to artists like Big Bill Broonzy. Long may he live and long live the blues.
I started listening to Big Bill Broonzy while I was on my first roadtrip after a while. My girlfriend was sitting next to me while we travelled across the country for the first time together. His music touched my heart and it makes me so happy that music can do this, no matter how old the song. Thank you Bill
i really hope that the 4 dislikes are because not all 3 songs are complete in the video. i dont see no other reason why someone could dislike this pure and true expression of music
I’ve heard like an hour and a half long interview with songs. I think he must’ve been a really good man other than an incredible musician. Looks like a performance filmed in some place in heaven. Blessed footage of this massive bluesman. Reading the comments it’s also super interesting. Please, never delete this. It’s one of my favorite videos on YT. Knowing that this was filmed by Pete Seeger it’s unbelievable. I was looking for gold and I found diamonds. I often come back here.
I keep coming back to this. Beautiful, relaxed performance. A glimpse at how Big Bill played for himself and family and friends. Love it. I wish I could play or sing 1/4 that well.
This guy does not muck about with the guitar. Particularly in the second song, you can see that he makes it do whatever he wants. He has the idea and the guitar complies. Good man.
+Zachary Auster-Mehr I just finished Claptons autobiograghy and he talks about Broonzy and the big influence that he had on his playing. Keith Richards does the same in his autobioraghy too. In fact almost every English guitar player from that time who was into American blues looked up to and studied Broonzys music.
I discover this genius musician, when I was student in Florence, Italy, in the early '60. My appreciation of his performance today is like it was 52/3 years ago!
this man was so influential to my favorites. Johnny Winter who died two days ago was my all time fav and I can hear Big Bills sound in Johnny. I just luv Bills melody lines, they got so much feel to them. thanx for the upload-peace,bro
Met Johnny at a local record store last year. I bet I was the only 16 year old there. Sadly I passed up on the opportunity to see his show later that night. RIP
Where you at now? I actually play something about note for note the main thing in e, I didn't realize it's like the same, I worked it out from rising river blues by George carter an to my revelation its like the exact same thing basically, trying to work out the rest of what he's doin, looks simple but under the hood there's some technique goin on
@nathaniel.7172 seeing this 2 years on, I've progressed loads, it's all in the thumb of your string playing hand, you gotta have rhythm but more importantly feeling
oh man, still loving this!!!!!! if you're feet aren't a tappin'.. and your heart ain't a saggin'.. welp then, this is the wrong place for you to be. True Guitar.
Why is it whenever I find a great, inspiring video on TH-cam, I always make the mistake of reading the comments section. Seems that many people have not yet learned to simply enjoy life, they have to constantly make comparisons. They cannot praise one, without knocking another. They cannot experience something positive, without a big dose of something negative. And here I thought music was supposed to have something to do with feeling good.
If you love a groove that is just pure balls to the wall, there aint much better than Big Bill. This style of playing is just propelled by the right thumb. Jorma Kaukonen is fond of saying, "your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are." And after being propelled by that incredible groove, Big Bill proves that he can do it with a flatpick too. I love how he is really digging in with that flatpick with this right hand. He has moved his right hand back towards the bridge which gives it that great tone.
no de los mas grandes guitarristas de la historia de la musica. Virtuosismo ,sentimiento y calidad interpretativa se unen en este musico genial. Descanse en paz querido Bill, tu legado permanecera por siempre en los amantes de la buena musica.
I discovered Big Bill many years ago on a bargain LP, and he's been one of my main blues guitar heroes ever since. This set of three is a good selection. "Hey, Hey" is basically what he plays behind his "Walkin' Mules Blues" as he tells the story (TH-cam it) . The third selection is a rather rare example of his use of a pick instead of his more frequent fingerstyle. Nobody had a steadier right thumb than Big Bill. What makes this set even cooler is the informal front porch setting, and Bill is clearly having fun.
This is immortal. God bless Big Bill for sitting out on his porch that day and bearing the flies to preserve his techniques for all-- and thank the people who had the foresight to record and preserve it. This footage belongs in a museum theater of the blues. I wish there were more Big Bill Broonzy live videos. Lightnin' Hopkins is well preserved on TH-cam, another blues master I have been thankful to see over and over.
The tune that Bill is playing at the end of the video, 'How You Want It Done?' was one he first recorded in 1930 (27 yrs earlier) & it's so great that we have this candid footage of him trying to remember one of his old tunes & stumbling a bit in the process . . . gold!
The talent of this guy is unbelievable. What a player and entertainer. Just don't see this anymore....this is coming out of his soul...nothing to do with rock star ego. Great stuff!! Watching this is like touching the flame.
This video is priceless. It's as if you showed up at his house unannounced and asked "Bill, can you come out on the porch steps and play a couple songs? And he dropped whatever he was doing and obliged. Gotta love the pen in the shirt pocket too.
The Towering Greats like Broonzy are the reason I'm shy about playing and singing The Blues. ... This is TRULY A High Art at this level and you've GOT TO have the credibility to be real. .... Not enough of us realize the Total Mastery and Genius Of The Artist being expressed here. ...a MIND BLOWING HISTORICAL RECORDING.
Watching him play this priceless rendition of "Hey Hey" I just realized that his left hand frettings are a lot simpler that the ones in all the transcriptions you can find around. His right hand picking is REALLY intricate, instead.
Rory Gallagher se inspirava em Big Billy Bronzy, e, nesses vídeos podemos perceber a semelhança não só do som, mas também, da expressão alegre no rosto.
Big Bill's playing at about 2-45 is nothing short of awesome. I'm sure I once heard him playing it on a 12 string guitar many years ago although l could be mistaken.
Just got Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin's album common ground, their tribute to Big Bill Broonzy. Still nothing like the original man himself. This is timeless blues. Cheers to Big Bill, an American Classic.....
The last few years I've really been getting into him and Wes Montgomery. Both men used their thumbs as picks and their music is spectacular. That ought to be a lesson for us all.
So true David. I'm a bass player and finger style guitarist. I play a lot of folk and classical on the guitar; I play some seriously challenging pieces. This material is in a league of its own. Mastering an independent thumb is probably the most challenging techniques I have encountered.
This was filmed the day before Bill, went into hospital, to be operated upon for the cancer.That took him away from us.My dad and Bill were extremely close and devoted friends. Bill was my beginning in blues sounds. He was the very very best man.As my Daddy often remarked. Rest in peace Bill.You were loved, and are loved by many many people always remembered.By those that you were so kind to.In this life.Especially by a little boy, who is now an old man, with a guitar singing your songs.To keep your legacy alive and vibrant....!!!!.
The "British Invasion" of British rock bands in the mid 1960s probably wouldn't have happened without Big Bill Broonzy's influence. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones always cites him as an influence, so does Eric Clapton, and others. Sounds like he happened to be a genuine, good man, even more importantly. Thanks for sharing that story with us. I'm blown away by the man's Delta blues style.
Thank you for that touching and informative comment. It is always nice to have it confirmed that Bill coming across to me as a gentleman, was indeed true.
Thank you for sharing this. Bless you.
Also, is there anything else you'd be willing tell me (or us or the world or the internet) about yourself, your father, or Bill? There's so much history, so much that deserves to be remembered, and so little that's actually recorded. I've love to read anything you'd like to share.
So glad someone filmed this and Big Bill took time to do it, though he may not have felt well.
To me this is one of the most valuable videos on youtube.
definitley is
Too few people realize how valuable..
Couldn't agree more.
Brent Boggess totally agree
Amen
I was thirteen and I was there at Circle Pines when Big Bill played this. Pete Seeger was there too. It's still reverberating sixty three years later, how good sound can sound....
My friend Bob Shafritz from Philly was at Circle Pines that summer as well; do you remember him? He passed away about 20 years ago, so I would love to talk to someone who knew him. I knew his whole family many years ago--we were very close during high school and beyond. Richard Lenatsky
IM A CAMPER AT CPC RN. I see all the photos of big bill on the wall and after seeing this it really makes me wish I’d been able to see him play live. Great artist.
Yeeehhaaaa
You weren’t there!
you guys are insane, that’s probably the craziest comments i’ve ever seen on youtube, Big Bill live…😳
Recorded this with throat cancer, absolutely a legend
For all of us old people who lived most of their lives without TH-cam. This is the stuff we were missing out on. Thank God for TH-cam!! Awesome video.
Although it was the day before his throat-cancer surgery, on that day he sang with a smile. He requested Pete Seegar(folk singer and the author of this video) who was visiting the tourist camp he was staying, to record him. Maybe he thought he would lose his voice after.... And he most likely did. The last performance of the Big B,
Not a tourist camp, Circle Pines Center has been a center for cooperative education since 1938.
Interesting information :)
@@ewinskytech the fact you took the time to scroll down to read comments and then actually commenting kinda contradicts your comment. Just saying
Really appreciate the little snippets of information you tube viewers give such as this performance and Big Bill's surgery. I have been a fan for forty years and didn't know this about Bill. Keep it coming, cheers from Australia.
Nick Mellick totally agree
Show me don’t tell me👍
After a hard days work this music brings me rest and peace in my mind. Blues is the most genuine and honest music.
Folk to, try it. Maybe Jean Richie?
This is a era of music that is rapidly disappearing,I just dream of these guys sitting on the porch playing cooking crawdads drinking whiskey & beer. Ohh how wish I could have been there. Thank you.
Man these were professional musicians ... OK Robert Johnson & co had to be like hobos, but later but Bill, Minnie, Tampa, those ones, they were not rich but were full time. If you want your romantic ideal :) yes they existed too ... Peg Leg Howell, Little Hat Jones, Nappy Brown, King Solomon Hill, the fantastic great players who recorded a few sides and vanished again.
Wow! This audio is CLEAN for a late '50s field recording. Nice job, Pete Seeger, R.I.P.
Yes, Sir!
Is that a type of vodka? Any good or worth trying?
Trebble is just awful, but it might just be my computer.
Guitar legend "Alvin Lee" (19 December 1944 - March 6 2013)
"My father was always playing this ethnic blues stuff around the house, and both my parents played. Then one day my father brought home Big Bill Broonzy, and there he was sitting in our living room playing, and blues was in my heart from the time I was 12 years old"
This is amazing, considering he was 64 years old when the film was shot (he doesn't look a day over 40), and suffering from cancer, with only one year left to live, yet he sounds so perfectly wonderful. Simply amazing.
For me, the greatest blues singer, with Lightning Hopkins!
It's amazing that he was in his mid fifties in this video, he looks much younger.
Sadly he actually died just a year after this recording, from throat cancer.
Kind of Ironic to thumbs up your comment.. I didn’t know that’s how he went, nor when... and damn, that’s ironic too, what took him... being the singer he was just a year prior. what a natural bluesman he was and will always be to me. Thanks for the information.
0:00 Worried Man Blues (aka Stump Blues)
2:43 Hey, Hey
4:10 How You Want It Done
The first song is “Stump Blues,” featured on The Big Bill Broonzy Story, recorded in ‘57. Dialogue tracks of the conversations between Big Bill and Bill Randle have a fantastic description of the song and it’s history
@@alvykauffmann2356 Thanks
How humble and unassuming he is. Sitting on a porch, flies buzzing 'round his head while he lays down some incredible blues. No bling, bling just passion, artistry and talent. One of the fathers of modern music. Today's artists should tip their caps to artists like Big Bill Broonzy. Long may he live and long live the blues.
Absolute blues god amongst men.
This guy - Big Bill Broonzy is amongst my greatest of personal heroes.
he is an absolute Magician of the blues.
Amen brotha , till we die tomorrow my brotha...
Thank the Lord that the Seegers recorded this great musician.
The Rainbow series Pete put together is great too. You can easily find it here.
Amém 🙏! ❤
I've probably watched this 500 times since it was uploaded
I started listening to Big Bill Broonzy while I was on my first roadtrip after a while. My girlfriend was sitting next to me while we travelled across the country for the first time together. His music touched my heart and it makes me so happy that music can do this, no matter how old the song. Thank you Bill
His right hand was insane. What a beautiful human
i really hope that the 4 dislikes are because not all 3 songs are complete in the video. i dont see no other reason why someone could dislike this pure and true expression of music
The way he plays the guitar has such a comforting sound, something even deeper than blues just pure emotion. Thanks for sharing
My old friend Big Bill - one of the best guitarists ever
His smile is everything.
This is so f..king good words can't describe
I’ve heard like an hour and a half long interview with songs. I think he must’ve been a really good man other than an incredible musician. Looks like a performance filmed in some place in heaven. Blessed footage of this massive bluesman. Reading the comments it’s also super interesting. Please, never delete this. It’s one of my favorite videos on YT. Knowing that this was filmed by Pete Seeger it’s unbelievable. I was looking for gold and I found diamonds. I often come back here.
LOOK AT THAT THUMB GO !!! What an inspiration this man has been to my self and soooo many others!!!
Yes, and they never did get to do him like they done poor Shine!
So glad that Pete got a great view of the fretboard ... and left it there on Hey, Hey ... what a treasure
Big bill was amazing, one of my favourite guitarist..a man way ahead of his time.
ONE OF THE GREATEST BLUESMAN EVER,GUITARIST ,MUSICIANS WILL ALWAYS RESPECT,AND LEARN FROM THIS GREAT MUSIC.🎸😎🔊BOB.RIP BBB.
A Giant Amongst The Original Delta Blues Talents. Magnificent.
I'm so glad this video is online. He's one of the cleanest blues players in voice and technical ability.
Magic fingers.
🙏 ~ Amen Big Bill • I would have loved to have sat there, listening to whatever you had to sing about
I keep coming back to this. Beautiful, relaxed performance. A glimpse at how Big Bill played for himself and family and friends. Love it. I wish I could play or sing 1/4 that well.
One of the best singers and blues guitarist of all time fantastic you don’t see these singers anymore sadly missed 😢❤❤
This guy does not muck about with the guitar. Particularly in the second song, you can see that he makes it do whatever he wants. He has the idea and the guitar complies. Good man.
Sam Smith Clapton must have been influenced by musicians like Big Bill. The guitar on Hey Hey is the exact same as Eric does it.
Zach, I think there is mention of Eric's influences in an interview with Guitar Player or Rolling Stone. I am not really sure which one though.
+Zachary Auster-Mehr I just finished Claptons autobiograghy and he talks about Broonzy and the big influence that he had on his playing. Keith Richards does the same in his autobioraghy too. In fact almost every English guitar player from that time who was into American blues looked up to and studied Broonzys music.
WOW!!!
+Bernard John That's because it's the exact same song. Clapton covered it.
I discover this genius musician, when I was student in Florence, Italy, in the early '60. My appreciation of his performance today is like it was 52/3 years ago!
5 six pens on. Almost crying, old folks starting to howling , I'm a big boy
Whatching and listening Broonzy is a feast for my soul!
He's pretty solid aye.
this man was so influential to my favorites. Johnny Winter who died two days ago was my all time fav and I can hear Big Bills sound in Johnny. I just luv Bills melody lines, they got so much feel to them. thanx for the upload-peace,bro
Met Johnny at a local record store last year. I bet I was the only 16 year old there. Sadly I passed up on the opportunity to see his show later that night. RIP
You've met the greatest blues guitar player to ever pick up an electric guitar.
There is only one word for this " Awsome" others can only aspire to be this great!
Awesome guitar playing by a master musician.
Thank god this was captured on film.
Amazing quality, sounds and looks great. we are lucky to have it.
The day after this film was shot Bill had surgery for the throat cancer that took his life the following year. This is why Bill's voice is so soft.
broonzied, where is the rest of this footage man?
Worried man blues... been trying to play this one for ages now, he makes it look so simple
Where you at now? I actually play something about note for note the main thing in e, I didn't realize it's like the same, I worked it out from rising river blues by George carter an to my revelation its like the exact same thing basically, trying to work out the rest of what he's doin, looks simple but under the hood there's some technique goin on
@nathaniel.7172 seeing this 2 years on, I've progressed loads, it's all in the thumb of your string playing hand, you gotta have rhythm but more importantly feeling
That flat picking had me rocking.
I love the music of Big Bill. I play my blues records to my 3 year old son, and he loves them too, especially Big Bill, Leadbelly and Memphis Slim!
Wow.. 😲😲😲
oh man, still loving this!!!!!! if you're feet aren't a tappin'.. and your heart ain't a saggin'.. welp then, this is the wrong place for you to be. True Guitar.
Why is it whenever I find a great, inspiring video on TH-cam, I always make the mistake of reading the comments section. Seems that many people have not yet learned to simply enjoy life, they have to constantly make comparisons. They cannot praise one, without knocking another. They cannot experience something positive, without a big dose of something negative. And here I thought music was supposed to have something to do with feeling good.
If you love a groove that is just pure balls to the wall, there aint much better than Big Bill. This style of playing is just propelled by the right thumb. Jorma Kaukonen is fond of saying, "your left hand is what you know; your right hand is who you are." And after being propelled by that incredible groove, Big Bill proves that he can do it with a flatpick too. I love how he is really digging in with that flatpick with this right hand. He has moved his right hand back towards the bridge which gives it that great tone.
Brilliant
This brought me to real tears. Because of racism we never got to see or hear many legendary men and women. SO DAMN SAD!!!!!
I love your songs and I play in my guitars( Clapton style) greeting from caracas venezuela.
Gérard, si tu vois ce message, donne nous un signe de vie (surtout pour la mamie)
Amazing..Love..Blues...
Why didn't I discover this amazing artist already?
The tone, the touch, the raw talent...
Another classic from Broonsy ; I love this medley.
no de los mas grandes guitarristas de la historia de la musica. Virtuosismo ,sentimiento y calidad interpretativa se unen en este musico genial. Descanse en paz querido Bill, tu legado permanecera por siempre en los amantes de la buena musica.
So talented! Wish I could have heard him play in person:(
Much love ❤️ and appreciation🎧 for blues 💙 legend, Big Bill Broonzy. 🎸
I discovered Big Bill many years ago on a bargain LP, and he's been one of my main blues guitar heroes ever since. This set of three is a good selection. "Hey, Hey" is basically what he plays behind his "Walkin' Mules Blues" as he tells the story (TH-cam it) . The third selection is a rather rare example of his use of a pick instead of his more frequent fingerstyle. Nobody had a steadier right thumb than Big Bill. What makes this set even cooler is the informal front porch setting, and Bill is clearly having fun.
Bring back z true blues.now that is true blue music.like no other.
This is immortal. God bless Big Bill for sitting out on his porch that day and bearing the flies to preserve his techniques for all-- and thank the people who had the foresight to record and preserve it. This footage belongs in a museum theater of the blues. I wish there were more Big Bill Broonzy live videos.
Lightnin' Hopkins is well preserved on TH-cam, another blues master I have been thankful to see over and over.
just great - always great
Love how he's probably played this song hundred and hundreds of time, but he still starts grinning while he's playing it
Big Bill Broonzy was really the BLUES! Great video. Those Blues roots sometimes makes me feel I do not belong to this age. Thank you.
Memphis Minnie was better heheh ... she beat Bill head to head in Chi town. But I love Big Bill.
The tune that Bill is playing at the end of the video, 'How You Want It Done?' was one he first recorded in 1930 (27 yrs earlier) & it's so great that we have this candid footage of him trying to remember one of his old tunes & stumbling a bit in the process . . . gold!
I think he stumbled because he doesn't do a lot of flat-picked tunes.
Thank god we have this for all eternity.
Some things never changes - as soul findings - no things so ever - just listening...
Very handsome guy too... Big Bill Broonzy was, and he could sing in a sweet voice 👌
I never tire of this.
Alvin Lee said when he first heard Big Bill he knew he wanted to play the guitar...and put down the clarinet!
The talent of this guy is unbelievable. What a player and entertainer. Just don't see this anymore....this is coming out of his soul...nothing to do with rock star ego. Great stuff!! Watching this is like touching the flame.
amazing finger-style blues guitar. This guy was one of the best.
Bill with long fingers to die for - This is brilliant.
This video is priceless. It's as if you showed up at his house unannounced and asked "Bill, can you come out on the porch steps and play a couple songs? And he dropped whatever he was doing and obliged. Gotta love the pen in the shirt pocket too.
The Towering Greats like Broonzy are the reason I'm shy about playing and singing The Blues. ... This is TRULY A High Art at this level and you've GOT TO have the credibility to be real. .... Not enough of us realize the Total Mastery and Genius Of The Artist being expressed here. ...a MIND BLOWING HISTORICAL RECORDING.
Watching him play this priceless rendition of "Hey Hey" I just realized that his left hand frettings are a lot simpler that the ones in all the transcriptions you can find around. His right hand picking is REALLY intricate, instead.
Right hand is the fuckin key to the world!
He loves what he’s doing. Absolutely!!
That's what makes him the best, and you can tell he knows it!
The blues is so underrated and not appreciated these days. The is and will always be a pivotal mark on todays music and most don't even know it.
Thanks for such a geat upload he was a brilliant guitarist 🙂
This man was a master and a legend of the blues.
Rory Gallagher se inspirava em Big Billy Bronzy, e, nesses vídeos podemos perceber a semelhança não só do som, mas também, da expressão alegre no rosto.
Guys like Big Bill taught Hank WIlliams the licks and song writing. Simple but everlasting.
Big Bill's playing at about 2-45 is nothing short of awesome. I'm sure I once heard him playing it on a 12 string guitar many years ago although l could be mistaken.
What a talented guy - even though I was minus 16 at that time, his music draws me in!
Just got Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin's album common ground, their tribute to Big Bill Broonzy. Still nothing like the original man himself. This is timeless blues. Cheers to Big Bill, an American Classic.....
The last few years I've really been getting into him and Wes Montgomery. Both men used their thumbs as picks and their music is spectacular. That ought to be a lesson for us all.
So true David. I'm a bass player and finger style guitarist. I play a lot of folk and classical on the guitar; I play some seriously challenging pieces. This material is in a league of its own. Mastering an independent thumb is probably the most challenging techniques I have encountered.
This is my favourite thing on youtube right now. Wow, what a talent!
Excellent selection which encapsulate his peculiar style and talent well.
My favorite player of all time would have loved to have met him.
The porch of the farmhouse at Circle Pines Center, Delton, Michigan. It's a camp I went to in the early 60"s.
This might have have been filled at the front porch of the Farmhouse at Circle Pines Center in Delton Michigan, where Bill worked
It Sure Looks Like That Porch So I'm Betting It Was
See Butter Milk Jamboree in Michigan
God this is so amazing.
Real music.
You can play like this if you want, You just need to try, to have patience and practice a lot! greetings from Brazil, strings brother.