Podcasts about white blues

Today, we're heading into the wild yonder during the 75th Annual 4th Of July MS Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo & Music Fest, happening July 1st - 4th, 2023 at the Gulfport Small Craft Harbor with Board President, Richard Valdez. We'll also swing by to celebrate freedom at the 33rd Annual Red White & Blues, happening July 4th at Traceway Park in Clinton with Dir. of Parks & Recreation, Courtney Nunn and Dir. of Communication & Tourism, Marlee Price before a final stop to enjoy the festivities at Nettleton's Annual 4th of July Parade & Fireworks, happening July 1st at Roy Black Park with Main Street Dir., Dana Burcham! Plus, we'll also let you know what's happening around your neck of the woods! Stay tuned, buckle up and hold on tight for your Next Stop MS! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melissa Walls grew up in International Falls, Minn., the daughter of an Ojibwe — or Anishinaabe mom — and a Swedish-American dad. But for the most part, she was raised as part of her mom's large extended family, which descends from Ojibwe bands on both sides of the Canadian border.  Many of them worked at the Indian Center in town, where she remembers playing with other Native kids as a child. "So I knew very well that I was Anishinaabe, Ojibwe, growing up," Walls said.  In graduate school, she studied American Indian mental health and bonded with other Native American students. Now she's a professor and researcher for Johns Hopkins University, based in Duluth, where she's immersed herself in Ojibwe culture.  Derek Montgomery for MPR News Melissa Walls is a professor and researcher for Johns Hopkins University, and she's immersed herself in Ojibwe culture. But Walls said she never knew much about her dad's side of the family. "I was a jingle dancer as a little girl and now I dance again,” she said. I “go to ceremony,” and “get to work with amazing elders across the region." But through all this time, she never knew much about her dad's side of the family. Then, one day about five years ago, her dad's sister found an ad in the paper for a Swedish TV show called “Allt for Sverige.” “And she sent me in the snail mail, a little clip of this little ad and she said, ‘they're casting for a reality show in Sweden, you should apply and learn something about this side of the family.'" Walls knew she was joking. But she applied anyway. She recorded a brief video before running out the door to drive her son to a hockey game. To her shock, she was accepted.  "And all of a sudden, I'm being flown to Sweden to be on a reality show to find out about my Swedish family. It was bizarre.”  The show aired at the end of 2019. The experience, Walls said, changed her life.  "I got to meet a Swedish family member. I got to learn about where my family came from. I got to visit and touch the house that my ancestors lived in in the 1700s,” Walls said. “It was deeply, deeply emotional." A growing number of Native Americans Walls, 41, is one of about four million people who identified as Native American and white in the last census, nearly triple the number from 2010.  In all, nearly 10 million people identified as Native American, an 87 percent jump from 2010. Of those people, about six million are multi-racial. Some of that dramatic growth is due to changes in how the Census Bureau collected and coded data, said Carolyn Liebler, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota who studies Native American and mixed race identity.  But she said it also reflects a willingness of more people to embrace their Native ancestry, after years of government policies that tried to erase it.  "Generations later, they're still Native people, but they're feeling less of that pain. It's more generational pain and not personal pain. And so people are willing to come back to it. It's more socially accepted now to be Native, to be a person of color," she said.  For Melissa Walls, she never had an issue accepting that she's Anishinaabe. But she struggled to understand how that core part of her identity could co-exist with her Swedish side. She hoped the reality TV show would help her reconcile something she wasn't even sure was reconcilable. "Which is, embodying both the colonized and the colonizer, walking through the world with light skin, but feeling like I'm an Anishinaabe person. How could I be both? Can I be both? What does that mean? Why did my ancestors leave? Did they come here and do harm?" Walls doesn't have the answers to all those questions, she admits. She's still evolving. But she feels more at peace about who she is.  "I think before the trip to Sweden. I don't know if I would use the word shame,” she said. “But I would use the word 'not proud' of being anything other than Anishinaabe. It was almost like a stain. Because of all of the harm that has happened because of colonization. How could I embrace that? How could I be okay with that?" There's still tension there, she said. But she's also discovered surprising parallels between her Anishinaabe and Swedish sides. Like how connected her Swedish ancestors were to the land and water and seasons, and how they lived communally, similar to her Ojibwe family.  Earlier this summer, Walls had a chance to return to Sweden, with her new husband, a Swedish man who she met while working on the TV show. They met more of her extended family, who presented her with a traditional midsummer folk dress. Right away she was startled with how similar it felt to putting on pow wow regalia.  "Then something that gave me the shivers happened," she recalled. When they were dressing her, they told her to tuck her handkerchief behind a heart shape on the folk dress that covered her chest.  "And I said, ‘Well, why?' And they said, ‘Well, we always lead with the heart.' And those words 'lead with the heart,' you will hear Anishinaabe people saying that. I thought, ‘What is happening here?'" Tears came into her eyes. She was stunned, she remembers thinking. “They're saying the exact same words that I'm learning in Minnesota from Anishinaabe people! These are deep teachings.”  ‘Finnishinaabe' Other Native people in northern Minnesota who have reconnected with their Scandinavian roots have discovered similar parallels. Finnish people revere the sauna, for example, while Ojibwe people have the sweat lodge.  They're both spiritual, in different ways, said Arne Vainio, a well-known physician on the Fond du Lac reservation, who takes an hours-long sauna every Saturday morning.  "It is a time to reflect on life and life changes,” he said. “I always feel like I'm with my father when I'm in there. And with my grandfather." Derek Montgomery for MPR News Arne Vainio grew up north of the Iron Range, the son of a Finnish father and an Ojibwe mother who owned a bar in the tiny town of Sturgeon.  Vainio, 63, grew up north of the Iron Range, the son of a Finnish father and an Ojibwe mother who owned a bar in the tiny town of Sturgeon.  Over the years, he said, he's saved the lives of several people who hated him for the color of his skin. Before going to medical school he worked as a paramedic on the Range, where he recalls responding to a man having a heart attack.  "And as soon as he got in the ambulance with me, he said ‘No F-ing Indian is going to touch me.' And then I started an IV on him, and I talked with him, and by the time we got to the hospital, which was maybe half an hour, he wouldn't let go of my hand and he wanted me to come into the ER with him." Vainio's father died by suicide when he was only four. When his Finnish grandparents died, “there was no more Finnish anchor, and I became mostly Ojibwe,” he said. That sense deepened when he attended college at the University of Minnesota Duluth and connected with an Anishinaabe group.  The reawakening of Vainio's Finnish side began in 2008 at a FinnFest celebration in Duluth, where he and others spoke about what it meant to be a "Finndian," or "Finnishinaabe."  There are about 1,200 Minnesotans who identify as both Native American and Finnish, according to census data analyzed by the APM Research Lab as part of its project Roots Beyond Race.  Additionally, there are about 1,800 who identify as both Swedish and Native, and more than 5,000 who identify as Norwegian and Native. Dan Kraker | MPR News Lyz Jaakola stands inside a recording studio at Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College in Cloquet, Minn., on July 22. Lyz Jaakola also spoke at FinnFest. She's a musician and teacher at Fond du Lac Tribal Community College.  Both her dad's Finnish family and her mom's Ojibwe family played important roles in her childhood growing up on the Fond du Lac Reservation. Both families lived nearby; her dad's family had homesteaded on the reservation.  APM Research Lab Roots Beyond Race ‘Where do I belong?' Native roots, hard realities surface in woman's search for her past Still, she said sometimes she felt like she wasn't accepted by white or Native people. "There's some challenges in being a mixed person,” she said. "You know, feeling like an outsider, and feeling like, you know, an ‘other,' wherever I was. And I know that that's not only true for myself. I've talked with other folks who have had similar experiences.” Jaakola, 53, channeled some of those emotions into a song she wrote called “Red & White Blues,” which she included on an album titled “Finndian Summer.”  But as she got older, she began to see her background as a source of strength. She said it's taught her to look for commonalities among people, and also to celebrate differences.  "I think people who are aware of their multicultural background, it's almost natural to do that,” she said. “I think that that's, I don't want to say like a product of being a mixed person, but it is a strength." She believes that perspective helped get her elected to the Cloquet City Council two years ago.  "They trusted that I was going to be thinking about, you know, not only one part of my family circle when I was being asked to make decisions. So that's pretty humbling.” Jaakola said she's learned to embrace the totality of who she is, in a way that builds on the strengths of both cultures.  For Arne Vainio, it's what's inside of you that's important.  "And I have inside of me Ojibwe, and Finnish culture,” he said. “And I wouldn't have it any other way." Derek Montgomery for MPR News Arne Vainio stands for a portrait Tuesday, July 26, in downtown Duluth.

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BOOTS & SADDLE - May 10, 2022 1. Pins and Needles - Bonnie Owens (Don't Take Advantage Of Me - 1965) 2. Even at My Best - The Country Side of Harmonica Sam (A Drink After Midnight - 2017) 3. Wildwood Flower - The Carter Family (Single - 1928) 4. Alimony - Shel Silverstein (Boy Named Sue and His Other Country Songs - 2008) 5. Cheater Cheater - Betty Amos (Single - 1955) 6. Destroy Me - Chef Adams (Singer / Songwriter  - 1969) 7. Me and the Old Promised Land - Joe Firth (Me And The Old Promised Land - 1981) 8. Before She Made Me Crawl - Harold MacIntyre (Area Code 705 - 1980) 9. Hard Times - Mickey McGivern & The Mustangs featuring Billy Adams (Hard Times - 1967) 10. Drinkin' Me Six Foot Under - Cement City Stompers (Live - Back by Popular Request - 1979) 11. The Same Old Thing Again - Dick Damron (Single - 1962) 12. N.B to T.O - Al Hooper (N.B to T.O) 13. Alone Again - Barry Smith & the Inner City Outlaws (Inner City Outlaws) 14. Souvenir - Scotty Campbell (Damned If I Recall - 1999) 15. The Final Word - Denny Eddy (Just As I Am - 1973) 16. The Wheel Boogie [instrumental] - Asleep At The Wheel (Half A Hundred Years - 2021) 17. Fair to Middlin' - Brad Proudlove (Single - 2021) 18. Baby Gets All Her Loving' From Me - Gordon Terry (The Gordon Terry Way - 1969) 19. Same as Mine - Connie Smith (Miss Smith Goes to Nashville - 1966) 20. Sing All The Songs You Can - George Riddle (Single - 1968) 21. Pick Me Up On Your Way Down - Jerry Lee Lewis (Sings The Country Music Hall Of Fame Hits Vol. 2 - 1969)  22. Wishing On A Ditch - Annabella Proper (Warehouse Tracks - 2022) 23. Living Free - Carter Felker (Even The Happy Ones Are Sad - 2022) 24. Coming Home Again (Hey Hey What D'ya Say) - Mike Plume Band (Red and White Blues - 2013) 25. Girl, Where You From? - Hannah Juanita (Single - 2022) 26. Trust Fund Troubadour - Mick Mullin (Single - 2022) 27. Back in Arkansas - Sad Daddy (Way Up In The Hills - 2022) 28. If I Treated You Like You Treat Me (feat. Asleep At The Wheel & Emily Gimble) - Brennen Leigh (Obsessed with the West (feat. Asleep At the Wheel) - 2022) 29. I Let A Stranger (Buy the Wine) - Kay Adams (Alcohol And Tears - 1967) 30. Second Fiddle (Mono Single Version) - Buck Owens (Single - 1958) 31. Texas Dance Hall Girl - Ernest Tubb (I've Got All The Heartaches I Can Handle - 1973) 32. You Can't Make Hay Pickin' Cotton - Lattie Moore (Single - 1968) 33. (Back Home Again In) Indiana [instrumental] - Chet Atkins (A Session With Chet Atkins - 1954) 34. I Like Being Left Alone - Robbie Fulks Revenge [Sitting] - 2007)

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Un proyecto enterrado en el olvido: THE JURY. Kurt Cobain, Mark Lanegan , Krist Novoselic y Mark Pickerel reservaron dos días en los Reciprocal Recording de Jack Endino para dar forma a un nuevo proyecto. La idea era rescatar canciones olvidadas de blues, principalmente interpretadas por Leadbelly. Hoy repasamos lo que ocurrió. Suenan: 01. Grey Goose (instrumental) 02. Ain't It A Shame 03. Where Did You Sleep Last Night 04. They Hung Him On A Cross 05. Black and White Blues 🙏Espacio patrocinado por: CARMEN VENTURA, NORBERTO BLANQUER, JORDI, ROSA RIVAS, INFESTOS, 61 GARAGE, MR.KAFFE, ISRAEL, TOLO SENT, ANXO, RAUL SANCHEZ, VICTORGB, EDUARDO MAYORDONO, BARON72, EDUARDO VAQUERIZO, LIP, ALEJANDRO GOMEZ, DANI RM, JOCIO, AYTIRO SAKI, MARCOS, PABLO ARABIA, CARLOS CONSEGLIERI, JEKY LOSABE, CESMUNSAL, LARUBIAPRODUCCIONES, RUBIO CARBÓN, PILAR DÍEZ, ALFONSO MOYA, JON LÓPEZ, FERNANDO MASERO, RODRIGO GUADIÁN, DOMINGO SANTABÁRBARA, JOSE MIGUEL, ALEXANDER CASTAÑEDA, ANTO78, JULMORGON, JUANMI, MIGUEL BLANCO, JUAN CARLOS ACERO, GIULIA GOVERNI, PERE PASQUAL, SPINDA RECORDS, FRANC PUERTO, DAVICIN BLACKMETAL, NURIA SONABÉ, JM MORENTE, AGUI102, OCTAVIO OLIVA SÁNCHEZ y varios oyentes anónimos. ¡¡GRACIAS!! 🅱️9️⃣0️⃣Escucha este episodio completo y accede a todo el contenido exclusivo de Bienvenido a los 90. Descubre antes que nadie los nuevos episodios, y participa en la comunidad exclusiva de oyentes en https://go.ivoox.com/sq/32699

This week's Nobodies Are Somebodies Podcast episode is taken from an interview that I conducted for Nobodies Radio Station: Heavy Rock Radio: a great chat with guitarist/songwriter/producer Myke Gray; we discuss his work in his own bands, from Skin, to his first with Jagged Edge, Red, White & Blues, to his latest project Shades Of Gray, as well as his time spent with the legendary U.F.O. band. This is the spoken word only chat (no music). More about Myke's music is below: Myke Gray Official Site: http://mykegray.rocks Shades Of Gray on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShadesofMykeGray Myke Gray on YouTube: http://www.youtube,com/c/MykeGray       Music featured on this episode (intro) by Matthew Johnston  https://soundcloud.com/user-234321408

Hosts Evan Gottesman and Eli Kowaz discuss shake-ups and breakups on the Israeli center-left, as Kachol Lavan and Labor-Gesher-Meretz fragment over the question of an emergency unity government.Support the show (http://support.israelpolicyforum.org/donate)

This week we have BLAX founder Danny Price. His a creative events and PR company have worked closely with some of the worlds biggest artists. Most recently they have been exhibiting never before seen images of the Rolling Stones for: ‘Black and White Blues, the Gus Coral collection. 01:45 - Ben’s trip to the US 05:55 - Stuart on his first ever beard  07:50 Ben and Stuart introduce Danny Proice 09:15 Danny on his promotion career and Blax 12:15 Danny on Black and White Blues 15:00 The story of when Stuart met Goldie (Danny’s Dad)  21:00 What Rolling Stones thought about the photos  23:00 current projects Danny is working on  24:25 Archie’s second debut on the podcast  24:45 the Enter Shikari sound system  29:50 Danny on hijacking the bandersnatch campaign  34:34 Danny on having his own official Instagram GIF 35:00 Danny’s 3 fave places to go in London  41:20 The Weekly Shout 41:50 Juicy information about upcoming projects for Stardust LDN  42:50 Drink and Play: The Viewing at the Ninth Life pub  44:55 the Paddy Fest at Clapham Grand  48:00 Ben and Stuart wrap it up  Mentions: Black Mirror Rolling Stones Enter Shikari  The Beatles Temple of Seitan Stardust LDN  Paddy Fest Drink and Play at Ninth Life pub  Give us a Shout on #ShoutAbout Instagram:          ShoutAboutLondon Facebook:            ShoutAboutLDN Twitter:                ShoutAboutLDN Please subscribe and rate us! Want to talk about the show? Got an idea for guests? Want to promote your event? Contact us on any of the above, or:  info@shoutabout.com www.shoutabout.com

UNLIMITED BLUES Radio Jazz studievært Kay Seitzmeyer prlsenterer WHITE BLUES BOY’S White Blues Boy’s er et program, hvor Kay Seitzmeyer fortæller historien om super hittet Hey Joe, fra hvem der har skrevet nummeret til The Leaves, som var de første, der indspillede Hey Joe til Jimi Hendrix, der hittede stort med nummeret i 196,7 og så er der bonus tracks med navne som John Hammomd, Mose Allison, The Animals, Blues Project m.fl. Sendt i Radio Jazz i 2011 Der er mere jazz på www.radiojazz.dk

Or, Happy Valley Voodoo of Slab Cabin Run Mike the Mailman is on assignment (playing cards), but the rest of the gang – Penn State and NFL defensive tackle Brandon Noble, former Onward State managing editor Kevin Horne, and aspiring virtual lion tamer Chris Buchignani – are all on hand for the triumphant return of the Obligatory podcast. The guys kick back along waters of Slab Cabin Run enjoying the hospitality of Voodoo Brewery and cover a range of topics in this return episode – the forgotten tradition of “not walking on the S” and the importance of ritual, the family-friendly (and less so) aspects of Blue-White Weekend, the killer instinct of local birds of prey, and the cultural phenomenon that is Game of Thrones (Brandon and Chris even sneak in some football talk while Kevin gets a refill). It's good to be back! This was recorded 24 hours before Tommy Stevens entered the transfer portal. Enjoy this break from pointless speculation and stale takes and thank us later. HOSTED BY: Brandon Noble, Kevin Horne, Chris Buchignani

Topical, protest, and resistance songs from Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Trinidad by way of New York City, Oklahoma by way of California, and the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm. 1. Sarah Ogan Gunning: I Hate the Capitalist System. NYC, November 1937. 2. Hobart Smith: Peg and Awl. Bluefield, Virginia, August 1959. 3. Big Bill Broonzy: Black, Brown and White Blues. Decca Studios, NYC, March 1947. 4. Lord Invader: Yankee Dollar. Town Hall, NYC, December 1947. 5. Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Refugees. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., March 1940. 6. Nimrod Workman: 42 Years. Mascot, Tennessee, July 1983. 7. Floyd Batts: Dangerous Blues. Parchman Farm Camp 11, Parchman, Mississippi, September 1959. 8. M.B. Barnes & prisoners: Oh Freedom. Parchman Farm Women's Camp, April 1936.  

Topical, protest, and resistance songs from Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Trinidad by way of New York City, Oklahoma by way of California, and the Mississippi State Penitentiary, better known as Parchman Farm.1. Sarah Ogan Gunning: I Hate the Capitalist System. NYC, November 1937. 2. Hobart Smith: Peg and Awl. Bluefield, Virginia, August 1959. 3. Big Bill Broonzy: Black, Brown and White Blues. Decca Studios, NYC, March 1947. 4. Lord Invader: Yankee Dollar. Town Hall, NYC, December 1947. 5. Woody Guthrie: Dust Bowl Refugees. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., March 1940. 6. Nimrod Workman: 42 Years. Mascot, Tennessee, July 1983. 7. Floyd Batts: Dangerous Blues. Parchman Farm Camp 11, Parchman, Mississippi, September 1959. 8. M.B. Barnes & prisoners: Oh Freedom. Parchman Farm Women's Camp, April 1936.

Hiya folks, once again in advance of the glorious Pale Imitation Festival we have a podcast exploring all the weird and wonderful bands who will be playing in Edinburgh during August for your wild and enthusiastic entertainment. Because you're coming along, right? All of you? Oh god do please come. Please. Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease! Ah fuck that, it's really undignified when I grovel isn't it. Fucking come along or you are missing the fuck out on seeing the best under-the-radar bands in Scotland at the most reasonable of prices (a fiver per show or a season ticket to the whole damn thing for £25 - all tickets here) in one of Edinburgh's most legendary underground venues. (Literally. It's actually a cellar.)   It's a bit haphazard, but it's a bloody great festival, the beer in Henry's is really good these days and the wonderful Kitchen Disco will be providing cakes and DJing on every single night because they are massive heroes and they are the reason the terrorists will never win. 01. Numbers Are Futile - Monster (00.17)02. Beam - Hex (08.12)03. Bat Bike - Willing (18.52)04. Sharptooth - Queen of Scots (26.37)05. Min Diesel - War Band (28.32)06. Adam Stafford - Atheist Money (35.07)07. Wolf - Tricks and Bones (42.56)08. Tryptamines - Black and White Blues (47.57)09. Supermoon - Klopfgeist (55.45) 10. Happy Meals - Electronic Disco (1.03.57)

Big Bill Broonzy was a master storyteller. From his name, he was born Lee Conly Bradley, to his age, he typically added a decade, to the facts of his growing up in the pre-civil rights segregated South (not that he didn’t, he simply embellished a lot) Bill could spin a yarn. As Bob Riesman tells it in I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy (University of Chicago, 2011) Bill mythologized his life in order to tell a story that was larger than his own, the story of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. For the most part, Bill told his story through songs–he recorded hundreds of them in his more than three decade career–some of which, like “Key to the Highway” and “Black, Brown, and White Blues,” remain popular and relevant to this day. But he also told his story through the many candid conversations he had with fellow blues travelers that were recorded by the likes of Studs Terkel, Alan Lomox, and Win Stracke. The Belgian husband and wife team of Yannick and Margo Bruynoghe compiled and edited a lengthy series of Bill’s own writings into an autobiography, Big Bill Blues. All-in-all, Big Bill Broonzy stands as one of the giants of American blues and jazz. He played with and/or influenced the blues of many musicians including, but not limited to: Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, Lil Green, Muddy Waters, Big Maceo Merriweather, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mahalia Jackson, Pete Seeger, Eric Clapton, Ray Davies, and Pete Townshend. Big Bill himself may not be lodged in the memories of most people these days, but his music and stories surely are. Bob Riesman is coeditor of Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage. He produced and cowrote the television documentary American “Roots Music: Chicago” and was a contributor to Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Blues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Bill Broonzy was a master storyteller. From his name, he was born Lee Conly Bradley, to his age, he typically added a decade, to the facts of his growing up in the pre-civil rights segregated South (not that he didn’t, he simply embellished a lot) Bill could spin a yarn. As Bob Riesman tells it in I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy (University of Chicago, 2011) Bill mythologized his life in order to tell a story that was larger than his own, the story of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. For the most part, Bill told his story through songs–he recorded hundreds of them in his more than three decade career–some of which, like “Key to the Highway” and “Black, Brown, and White Blues,” remain popular and relevant to this day. But he also told his story through the many candid conversations he had with fellow blues travelers that were recorded by the likes of Studs Terkel, Alan Lomox, and Win Stracke. The Belgian husband and wife team of Yannick and Margo Bruynoghe compiled and edited a lengthy series of Bill’s own writings into an autobiography, Big Bill Blues. All-in-all, Big Bill Broonzy stands as one of the giants of American blues and jazz. He played with and/or influenced the blues of many musicians including, but not limited to: Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, Lil Green, Muddy Waters, Big Maceo Merriweather, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mahalia Jackson, Pete Seeger, Eric Clapton, Ray Davies, and Pete Townshend. Big Bill himself may not be lodged in the memories of most people these days, but his music and stories surely are. Bob Riesman is coeditor of Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage. He produced and cowrote the television documentary American “Roots Music: Chicago” and was a contributor to Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Blues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Bill Broonzy was a master storyteller. From his name, he was born Lee Conly Bradley, to his age, he typically added a decade, to the facts of his growing up in the pre-civil rights segregated South (not that he didn’t, he simply embellished a lot) Bill could spin a yarn. As Bob Riesman tells it in I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy (University of Chicago, 2011) Bill mythologized his life in order to tell a story that was larger than his own, the story of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. For the most part, Bill told his story through songs–he recorded hundreds of them in his more than three decade career–some of which, like “Key to the Highway” and “Black, Brown, and White Blues,” remain popular and relevant to this day. But he also told his story through the many candid conversations he had with fellow blues travelers that were recorded by the likes of Studs Terkel, Alan Lomox, and Win Stracke. The Belgian husband and wife team of Yannick and Margo Bruynoghe compiled and edited a lengthy series of Bill’s own writings into an autobiography, Big Bill Blues. All-in-all, Big Bill Broonzy stands as one of the giants of American blues and jazz. He played with and/or influenced the blues of many musicians including, but not limited to: Roosevelt Sykes, Washboard Sam, Lil Green, Muddy Waters, Big Maceo Merriweather, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mahalia Jackson, Pete Seeger, Eric Clapton, Ray Davies, and Pete Townshend. Big Bill himself may not be lodged in the memories of most people these days, but his music and stories surely are. Bob Riesman is coeditor of Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene: The Photographs of Raeburn Flerlage. He produced and cowrote the television documentary American “Roots Music: Chicago” and was a contributor to Routledge’s Encyclopedia of the Blues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices