Today is the birthday of Big Bill Broonzy (Lee Conley Bradley, 1893-1958). An Arkansas sharecropper, he originally played a fiddle made out of cigarbox, but switched to guitar in 1920 when he moved to Chicago when he began to study with Papa Charlie Jackson, a veteran of minstrel and medicine shows. He made his first […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 12:14PM on June 26, 2013