AVID Roots here presents four classic Big Bill Broonzy albums plus, including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
Big Bill’s Blues, Big Bill Broonzy Sings the Blues, Folk Blues and The Blues.
A special note about this collection is that Big Bill Blues and Sings the Blues appear on CD for the first time!! Born in Mississippi in 1893 Big Bill Broonzy was one of the last of the great blues singers still alive and singing in the late 1950’s and 1960’s. Most of the greats had passed on or disappeared into obscurity after early recording careers has faltered way back in the 1920’s and 1930’s. In Big Bills own words “Leroy Carr, he’s gone, Big Maceo, he’s gone, Jim Johnson, Ol’ Lead, they’re gone. If I don’t sing the blues, who will? Maybe the blues will die someday. But I’ll have to die first. Across these four classic albums you will hear why Big Bill Broonzy was considered to be one of the greatest blues singers of all time. Singing a cross section of his own songs and that of such legends as Leroy Carr, Bessie Smith, Gus Cannon and Richard Jones, Bill performs each in his own inimitable way with is own style of singing and his own unique brand of guitar playing!
All four albums plus, have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
CD1
1-10: ‘Big Bill’s Blues’
1. Bossie Woman
2. Texas Tornado
3. Tell Me What Kind Of Man Jesus Is
4. Trouble In Mind
5. See See Rider
6. When I’ve Been Drinkin’
7. Martha
8. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
9. Key To The Highway
10. Goodbye Baby Blues
11-17: ‘Big Bill Broonzy Sings The Blues’
11. Big Bill’s Guitar Blues
12. Somebody’s Got To Go
13. Water Coast
14. Take This Ole Hammer
15. Diggin’ My Potatoes
16. Rock Me Baby
17. Careless Love
18. I Love My Whiskey from 1949 sessions
19. You’ve Been Mistreating Me Baby from 1949 sessions
CD2
1-8: ‘Folk Blues’
1 John Henry
2. Crawdad
3. Bill Bailey
4. Make My Get Away
5. Blue Tail Fly
6. Bessie Smith (Backwater Blues)
7. Leroy Carr (In The Evening)
8. Richard Jones (Trouble In Mind)
9-20: ‘The Blues’
9. Walkin’ The Lonesome Road
10. Mopper’s Blues
11. Get Back
12. Hey, Hey
13. Willie Mae
14. Stump Blues
15.1 Know She Will
16. Hollerin’ Blues
17. Leavin’ Day
18. Southbound Train
19. You Changed
20. Tomorrow
21. I Stay Blue All The Time from 1949 sessions
22. Water Coast from 1949 sessions
23. Five Feet Seven from 1949 sessions
24. I Wonder from 1949 sessions
25. Keep Your Hands Off Her from 1949 sessions
26. Mindin’ My Own Business from 1949 sessions
