The recordings of this charming and versatile Texas singer are among the most credible samplings of the real song bags of 20th-century rural and small-town “songsters.” In a sense, there was no such thing as “blues singers” — just performers […]
The recordings of this charming and versatile Texas singer are among the most credible samplings of the real song bags of 20th-century rural and small-town “songsters.” In a sense, there was no such thing as “blues singers” — just performers […]
Critics have been rough on the folk-blues records of the ’50s and ’60s, albums that often repackaged country-turned-urban blues singers as facsimiles of some idealized rural past. The LPs that Big Bill Broonzy made for Folkways in the years leading […]
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