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Big Bill Broonzy by Trav S.D.

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 ☆ ⚑

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